TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sassatelli,Roberta
TI  - Consumer culture: history, theory and politics 
SN  - 9781412911801 (hbk.) :
AV  - HC79.C6 
U1  - 306.3  SAS 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - London
PB  - SAGE
KW  - Consumption (Economics)
KW  - Consumers
KW  - Attitudes
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Society
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Sociology & anthropology
KW  - thema
KW  - Cultural studies
KW  - Consumerism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p.[204]-229) and index; 1.Capitalism and the consumer revolution -- 2.The cultural production of economic value -- 3.Utility and social competition -- 4.Needs, manipulation and simulation -- 5.Taste, identity and practices -- 6.Representation and consumerism -- 7.Commodities and consumers -- 8.Contexts of consumption
N2  - Showing the culture & institutional processes that have brought the notion of the 'consumer' to life, 'Consumer Culture' guides the reader on a comprehensive journey through the history of how we have come to understand ourselves as consumers in a consumer society & reveals the profound ambiguities & ambivalences inherent within
ER  -