Consumption and Everyday Life

Reviewing key contemporary issues and debates about consumption, this accessible textbook portrays and assesses the varied and complex intersections of consumption and everyday life.

The rich and idiosyncratic nature of local consumption practices is illustrated through cases from different parts of the world. The contributors show the varying balance between constraint and creativity, links between consumption and production, and the patterns which shape access to symbolic and material resources.

List of contents

Consumption and its Consequences - Daniel Miller
`Storying the Self¿ - Ruth Finnegan
Personal Narratives and Identity
Music, Performance and Enactment - Ruth Finnegan
`Us¿ and `Them¿ - Nigel Thrift
Re-Imagining Places, Re-Imagining Identities
Broadcasting and its Audience - Shaun Moores
Consuming Communications Technologies at Home - Hugh Mackay

About the author

Dr Hugh Mackay is an Honorary Associate of the Faculty of Sociology at Open University

Summary

Reviewing key contemporary issues and debates about consumption, this accessible textbook portrays and assesses the varied and complex intersections of consumption and everyday life. The contributors show the varying balance between constraint and creativity, links between consumption and production, and the patterns which shape access to symbolic and material resources.

Product details

• Authors: Hugh Mackay
• Assisted by: Hugh Mackay (Editor), Mackay Hugh (Editor)
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.06.1997
• EAN: 9780761954378
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-5437-8
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Culture, Media, and Identities; Culture, Media and Identities Series; Culture, Media and Identities series; Culture, Media and Identities
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Cultural Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Consumer Behavior, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Consumerism, Cultural Studies;Sociology