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Consumer culture / Celia Lury.

By: Lury, Celia.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Cambridge : Polity Press, 1996 2007Description: vii, 273 p. : ill. ; 23 cm + pbk.ISBN: 0745614418 ; 074561440X .Subject(s): Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects | Consumer behavior | Culture -- Economic aspectsDDC classification: 306.3
Contents:
Introduction: the stuff of material culture -- Material culture and consumer culture -- The stylization of consumption -- Habitat and habitus -- Making up and making do -- Changing races, changing places -- Back to the future and forward to the past -- Consumer culture, identity and politics.
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General Lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 306.3 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00131632
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This book explores the way an individual's position in social groups structured by class, gender, race and age affects the nature of his or her participation in consumer culture.

Bibliography: (pages 257-265) and index.

Introduction: the stuff of material culture -- Material culture and consumer culture -- The stylization of consumption -- Habitat and habitus -- Making up and making do -- Changing races, changing places -- Back to the future and forward to the past -- Consumer culture, identity and politics.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • 1 Introduction: The Stuff of Material Culture
  • 2 Material Culture and Consumer Culture
  • 3 The Stylization of Consumption
  • 4 Habitat and Habitus
  • 5 Making Up and Making Do
  • 6 Changing Races, Changing Places
  • 7 Back to the Future and Forward to the Past
  • 8 Consumer Culture, Identity and Politics
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Reviews provided by Syndetics

CHOICE Review

Lury's book is not just another study of consumer behavior. Following the tradition of Mary Douglas and Baron Isherwood's The World of Goods (CH, Feb'80) in Britain and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Eugene Rochberg-Halton's The Meaning of Things (CH, Apr'82) in the US, it explores consumption as both cultural and economic process in Euramerican societies. Some influence from Arjun Appadurai's The Social Life of Things (1986) can be seen. Lury's language is reflexive in style, with a postmodern flair. The book offers a fresh look at the contributions of various perspectives to standards of ethics and aesthetics, as well as to the politics of consumption. The process of consumption is seen as a self-assembly that provides the context for shaping and being shaped by group membership. Nicely selected photographs enhance the text. The bibliography is standard and draws heavily on the British contribution to the meaning of cultural items. An excellent addition to the literature on identity and its relationship to meaning and to cultural goods. Graduate, faculty. Y. Peterson Saint Xavier University

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