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.

Sommario

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

Info autore

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

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Hugh MacKay
• Con la collaborazione di: Hugh MacKay (Editore)
• Editore: Sage Publications Ltd
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 13.06.1997
• EAN: 9780761954378
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-5437-8
• Pagine: 368
• Serie: Culture, Media, and Identities; Culture, Media and Identities Series; Culture, Media and Identities series; Culture, Media and Identities
• Categorie: Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Politica; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche