Shopping Experience

Informationen zum Autor Pasi Falk is a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Sociology, University of Helsinki Klappentext This shrewd and probing book seeks to theorize shopping as an autonomous realm. It avoids the reductionist characteristics of economics and marketing. At the same time it avoids the moralizing tone of many contemporary discussions of shopping and consumption. It also contains an appendix which gives a brief history and selected literature of shopping. Zusammenfassung Intends to theorize shopping as an autonomous realm. This title avoids the reductionist characteristics of economics and marketing. It also contains an appendix which gives a brief history and selected literature of shopping. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - Colin Campbell and Pasi Falk In Defence of Shopping - Mary Douglas Could Shopping Ever Really Matter? - Daniel Miller Modernity¿s Disavowal - Mica Nava Women, the City and the Department Store Supermarket Futures - Rachel Bowlby The Making of a Swedish Department Store Culture - Cecilia Fredriksson Shopping in the East Centre Mall - Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen and Pasi M[um]aenp[um]a[um]a Shopping, Pleasure and the Sex War - Colin Campbell and Paul Hewer The Scopic Regimes of Shopping - Pasi Falk Appendix: Research on Shopping - Paul Hewer and Colin Campbell A Brief History and Selected Literature

Product details

• Authors: Pasi Campbell Falk
• Assisted by: Colin Campbell (Editor), Colin B Campbell (Editor), Colin B. Campbell (Editor), P. Falk (Editor), Pasi Falk (Editor), Falk Pasi (Editor)
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.08.1997
• EAN: 9780761950677
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-5067-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Cultural Studies, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Distribution, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Holidays (non-religious), Sociology: sport & leisure, Sociology: sport and leisure, Retail and wholesale industries, Distributive industries, Anthropology;Social Theory