Consumption and Generational Change - The Rise of Consumer Lifestyles

Klappentext The study of consumption in social life is growing. This book addresses the rise of consumer culture and the various attempts to explain and account for it. Drawing on historical perspectives and comparative studies! it addresses social change with reference to generation effects and conflict. Zusammenfassung The study of consumption in social life is growing Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Consumption and Generational Change: The Rise of Consumer Lifestyles; I: Theoretical Perspectives on Generations and Consumption; 2: The Third Age: Field, Habitus, or Identity?; 3: Goods Not Gods: New Spiritualities, Consumerism, and Religious Markets; 4: Dispossession: The Tenacity of Things 1; II: Historical Dimensions of Generation and Consumption; 5: Old Age, Consumption, and Change over Time; 6: Ageing, Cohorts, and Consumption: The British Experience 1968–2005; III: International Comparisons of Changes in Consumption Patterns across Generations; 7: Housing Crisis, Generational Inequalities, and Welfare States; 8: Generational Marketing 1; 9: Comparing Welfare Regime Changes: Living Standards and the Unequal Life Chances of Different Birth Cohorts 1

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• Authors: Ian Jones, Ian Rees Jones, Ian Rees Higgs Jones
• Assisted by: David J. Ekerdt (Editor), Paul Higgs (Editor), Ian Rees Jones (Editor)
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.01.2009
• EAN: 9781412808576
• ISBN: 978-1-4128-0857-6
• No. of pages: 344
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Consumer Behavior, c 2000 to c 2010, c 2000 to c 2009, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Consumerism, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)