Ordinary Consumption

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

List of contents

Introduction by Gronow and Warde 1. Consumption and Routine Kaj Ilmonen 2. Routinization or reflexivity?:consumers and normative claims for environmental considersation Bente Halkier 3. Ordinary and extraordinary consumption 4. Consuming the ordinary: changing habits versus routinisation Mark Tomlinson 5, Deviant pleasures and the normative rhetoric of the consumer society Roberta Sassatelli 6. SMART LIFE 9.0 - Representations of everyday life in future studies Katja Oksanen 7.Consumption caught in the 'cash nexus' Tim Dant 8. Networks of provision: consumers, utilities and technologies Elizabeth Shove and Heather Chappells 9. Ordinary and Distinctive Kitchens; or 'a kitchen is a kitchen is a kitchen' Dale Southerton 10. Lifestyle and social integration: a study of middle class culture in Manchester Brian Longhurst and Mike Savage 11. Working at consumption: the second home and daily life Davina Chaplin 12. The role of states in the creation of consumption norms Terhi-Anna Wilska Afterword The implications of ordinary consumption Akan Warde and Jukka Gronow

About the author

Jukka Gronow is a Senior Researcher at the Finnish Academy of Science. Alan Warde is Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester, and a co-director fo the ESRC for Research on Innovation and Competition (CRIC).

Summary

Ordinary Consumption promotes a distinctive approach to the understanding of the central practices of consumer society, a book with a controversial message, it will be a source of debate about the appropriate agenda for reserach.

Product details

• Authors: Jukka Warde Groncow
• Assisted by: Jukka Groncow (Editor), Groncow Jukka (Editor), Alan Warde (Editor), Warde Alan (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.10.2013
• EAN: 9780415862967
• ISBN: 978-0-415-86296-7
• No. of pages: 266
• Series: Studies in Consumption and Markets
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Consumer Behavior, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Marketing / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Sales & Selling / General, Sales & marketing, Sales and marketing