This book offers a genealogical account of the rise of consumer capitalism, tracing its origins in America between 1880 and 1930 and explaining how it emerged to become the dominant form of social organisation of our time. Asking how it was that we came to be consumers who live in societies that revolve around production and consumption, not only of goods, but also of events, experiences and emotions, The Rise of Consumer Capitalism in America: Consuming Desires employs Weberian methods and draws on the work of Turner, Girard and Voegelin to present an extensive analysis of primary sources in…mehr
This book offers a genealogical account of the rise of consumer capitalism, tracing its origins in America between 1880 and 1930 and explaining how it emerged to become the dominant form of social organisation of our time. Asking how it was that we came to be consumers who live in societies that revolve around production and consumption, not only of goods, but also of events, experiences and emotions, The Rise of Consumer Capitalism in America: Consuming Desires employs Weberian methods and draws on the work of Turner, Girard and Voegelin to present an extensive analysis of primary sources in a study of the appearance and triumph of the 'ideology' of our age.
Cesare Silla is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Catholic University of Milan.
Inhaltsangabe
Lists of Tables and Figures Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: Revisiting the Genealogy of Consumer Capitalism Through Liminality Part I: On the Threshold of a New Era: Making Way for Modernity 1. A New Economic Life 2. Souls in Transition Part II: Making the Consumer City: The Theatricalization Of Urban Life 3. The Chicago World's Fair Of 1893 And the Urban Ideal 4. The City as Spectacle 5. The Presentation of Self in Urban Daily Life Part III: The Genesis of The Consumer: 'Image-Making' And the Production of Desire 6. The Personality of Business 7. The New Basis of Civilization 8. Subjects of Desire Part IV: Marketing Professionalism: The Engine of Consumer Capitalism and Its Lasting Effect 9. Marketing Plan and Consumer Research 10. Relationship Marketing and The Experience Economy 11. Planned Obsolescence and The Consumption Engineer Concluding Remarks Bibliography Index
Lists of Tables and Figures Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: Revisiting the Genealogy of Consumer Capitalism Through Liminality Part I: On the Threshold of a New Era: Making Way for Modernity 1. A New Economic Life 2. Souls in Transition Part II: Making the Consumer City: The Theatricalization Of Urban Life 3. The Chicago World's Fair Of 1893 And the Urban Ideal 4. The City as Spectacle 5. The Presentation of Self in Urban Daily Life Part III: The Genesis of The Consumer: 'Image-Making' And the Production of Desire 6. The Personality of Business 7. The New Basis of Civilization 8. Subjects of Desire Part IV: Marketing Professionalism: The Engine of Consumer Capitalism and Its Lasting Effect 9. Marketing Plan and Consumer Research 10. Relationship Marketing and The Experience Economy 11. Planned Obsolescence and The Consumption Engineer Concluding Remarks Bibliography Index
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