Consumer culture : history, theory and politics / Roberta Sassatelli.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : SAGE, 2007.Description: 240 pISBN:- 9781412911801 (hbk.) :
- 9781412911818 (pbk.) :
- 9781412911818 (pbk.) :
- 141291180X (hbk.) :
- 1412911818 (pbk.)
- 9781412911801 (hbk.) :
- 306.3 SAS
- HC79.C6
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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.
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.