The Consumer Society Reader Paperback - 1999
by Martyn J. Lee
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- Title The Consumer Society Reader
- Author Martyn J. Lee
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Condition New
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Blackwell Pub, Oxford, UK
- Date 1999
- Bookseller's Inventory # x-0631207988
- ISBN 9780631207986 / 0631207988
- Weight 1.37 lbs (0.62 kg)
- Dimensions 9.61 x 6.67 x 1.05 in (24.41 x 16.94 x 2.67 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Consumption (Economics) - Social aspects, Consumer behavior - Social aspects
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99016939
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.3
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From the rear cover
Part I introduces some of the important theoretical and conceptual material through which we have come to appreciate the dominant themes of our consumer society. Contributions from a range of thinkers - Pierre Bourdieu, Dick Hebdige, and Michel de Certeau, among others - give special attention to the nature of human needs, their satisfaction, and the broad implications of the provision of social and material goods by a capitalist means of production.
Part II chronicles the evolution of the modern consumer society from its inception to the present day. Contemporary and popular writers, including John Kenneth Galbraith, Vance Packard, and Jean Baudrillard chart the dynamism of consumer society; its many changing social, cultural, economic, and political turns over time; and the spirited responses it has provoked from critics.