Cunsumption and Everyday Life

Informationen zum Autor Dr Hugh Mackay is an Honorary Associate of the Faculty of Sociology at Open University Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Hugh MacKay
• Con la collaborazione di: Hugh MacKay (Editore)
• Editore: Sage Publications Ltd
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 13.06.1997
• EAN: 9780761954385
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-5438-5
• Pagine: 368
• Dimensioni: 190 mm x 245 mm x 18 mm
• Serie: Culture, Media and Identities series
• Categorie: Libri scolastici > Didattica > Formazione professionale; Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Politica