Consumption Matters - The Production and Experience of Consumption

Klappentext Consumption matters to everyone, arguably more than ever before. This up-to-date selection of papers considers some of the key changes in the patterning and social significance of consumption. It is based on a recent series of ESRC funded seminars (1994-96) involving sociologists, social anthropologists, and policy researchers. As well as reporting on recent empirical studies, an extended introduction is provided, and future directions for social scientific research, especially sociological research, are discussed. Among the issues considered are: the privatization and marketization of welfare state services; class, gender, ethnicity, and consumption; the consumption of education, Christmas and vitamins; consumption and identity; the consumption of the past; and the influence of Bourdieu on the sociology of consumption. Zusammenfassung * Interdisciplinary collection of up–to–date research and social scientific thinking on consumption. * Contains extended introduction. * Covers both the production of consumption and the experience of consumption with reference to class, gender, ethnicity and generations.

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• Authors: Edgell, Stephen Edgell, Stephen (University of Salford) Hetheringt Edgell, Stephen Hetherington Edgell, Hetheington K, Hetheington K., K. Hetheington K., Warde A, Warde a., A. Warde a.
• Assisted by: Stephen Edgell (Editor), Stephen (University of Salford) Edgell (Editor), Kevin Hetherington (Editor), Kevin (University of Keele) Hetherington (Editor), Alan Warde (Editor), Alan (University of Manchester) Warde (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.01.1997
• EAN: 9780631203506
• ISBN: 978-0-631-20350-6
• No. of pages: 324
• Series: Sociological Review Monograph; Sociological Review Monographs; The Sociological Review Monographs
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories