Experience Society - Consumer Capitalism Rebooted

Informationen zum Autor Steven Miles is Professor in Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is the author of five single authored books including Consumerism as a Way of Life (Sage, 1998) Spaces for Consumption (Sage, 2004) and Retail and the Artifice of Social Change (Routledge, 2016). He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Consumer Culture . Klappentext Airbnb, gaming, escape rooms, major sporting events: contemporary capitalism no longer demands we merely consume things, but that we buy experiences. This book is concerned with the social, cultural and personal implications of this shift. The technologically-driven world we live in is no closer to securing the utopian ideal of a leisure society. Instead, the pursuit of leisure is often an attempt to escape our everyday existence. Exploring examples including sport, architecture, travel and social media, Steven Miles investigates how consumer culture has colonised 'experiences', revealing the ideological and psycho-social tensions at the heart of the 'experience society'. This first critical analysis of the experience economy sheds light on capitalism's ever more sophisticated infiltration of the everyday.

Product details

• Authors: Steven Miles, Miles Steven
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9780745338705
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-3870-5
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Hospitality industry, Cultural Studies, Capitalism, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Consumer Behavior, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Capitalism, 21st Century, Social, group or collective psychology, Economic systems & structures, Consumerism, Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050, Tourism industry, COMPUTERS / Internet / Social Media, Hospitality, sports, leisure and tourism industries