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Informationen zum Autor Barry Smart is Professor of Sociology at the University of Portsmouth and has longstanding research interests in the fields of social theory, political economy, and philosophy. His research interests include critical social research ethics; higher education; and collaborative work on veganism, ethics, lifestyle and environment. Klappentext A wide-ranging, detailed and critical analysis of Western consumerism and its globalization, from one of the most respected names in the field today. Zusammenfassung A wide-ranging! detailed and critical analysis of Western consumerism and its globalization! from one of the most respected names in the field today. Inhaltsverzeichnis Consuming: Historical and Conceptual Issues Consumer Choice: Rhetoric and Reality Cultivating Consumers: Advertising, Marketing and Branding Designing Obsolescence, Promoting Consumer Demand Globalization and Modern Consumer Culture Consequences of Consumerism An Unsustainable All-Consuming World Consuming Futures I: Business as Usual Consuming Futures II: ¿Green¿ and Sustainable Alternatives
Sommario
Consuming: Historical and Conceptual Issues
Consumer Choice: Rhetoric and Reality
Cultivating Consumers: Advertising, Marketing and Branding
Designing Obsolescence, Promoting Consumer Demand
Globalization and Modern Consumer Culture
Consequences of Consumerism
An Unsustainable All-Consuming World
Consuming Futures I: Business as Usual
Consuming Futures II: 'Green' and Sustainable Alternatives
Relazione
The cultural contradictions of modern capitalism have never been deeper or more dramatic. These contradictions are also confusing. While governments tell citizens to spend in order to save capitalism, economists tell us that western consumers spend too much and Chinese workers, too little. Barry Smart's engaging contribution offers clear insights into the economic mysteries of modern consumption and production, providing in tandem an historical sociology of the rise of America as a consumer society - this is a timely sociological guide to the perplexed
Bryan S. Turner
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Barry Smart's Consumer society is the best study I have seen of contemporary features of the current stage of capitalism organized around consumption and commodities. The book's range is broad and synoptic and its research is highly impressive. The text is engaging and accessible and should be of interest to a wide range of readers
Douglas Kellner
UCLA, author of Media Spectacle and the Crisis of Democracy
