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Roberta Sassatelli - Consumer Culture: History, Theory and Politics - 9781412911801 - V9781412911801
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Consumer Culture: History, Theory and Politics

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Description for Consumer Culture: History, Theory and Politics Hardback. Showing the cultural and institutional processes that have brought the notion of the 'consumer' to life, this book guides the reader on a comprehensive journey through the history of how we have come to understand ourselves as consumers in a consumer society and reveals the profound ambiguities and ambivalences inherent within. Num Pages: 248 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFT. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 242 x 170 x 19. Weight in Grams: 363.
"A thorough and wide-ranging synthetic account of social scientific research on consumption which will set the standard for the second generation of textbooks on cultures of consumption."
- Alan Warde, University of Manchester

"The multi-disciplinary nature of the book provides new and revealing insights, and Sassatelli conveys brilliantly the heterogeneity and ambivalent nature of consumer identities, consumer practices and consumer cultures... Newcomers to consumer culture will find this an invaluable primer and introducton to the major concepts and ideas, while those familiar with the field will find Sassatelli′s sharp analysis and discussion both refreshing and inspiring."... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
SAGE Publications Inc United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Thousand Oaks, United States
ISBN
9781412911801
SKU
V9781412911801
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Reviews for Consumer Culture: History, Theory and Politics
This is a model of what a text book ought to be. Over the past decade the original debates about consumption have been overlaid by a vast amount of detailed research, and it seems unimaginable that a single text couuld do justice to all of these. To do so would involve as much a commitment to depth as to breadth. ... Read more

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