Consumption Matters: The Production and Experience of Consumption (Sociological Review Monographs) - Softcover

Edgell, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0631203508 ISBN 13: 9780631203506

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1997

Synopsis

This up–to–date selection of papers considers some of the key changes in the patterning and social significance of consumption.

About this title

Review:

"Everybody involved in the sociology of consumption should find something to interest them." Peter Corrigan, University of New England, Australia

From the Back Cover:

Consumption matters to everyone, arguably more than ever before. This up–to–date selection of papers considers some of the key changes in the patterning and social significance of consumption. It is based on a recent series of ESRC funded seminars (1994–96) involving sociologists, social anthropologists, and policy researchers.
As well as reporting on recent empirical studies, an extended introduction is provided, and future directions for social scientific research, especially sociological research, are discussed. Among the issues considered are: the privatization and marketization of welfare state services; class, gender, ethnicity, and consumption; the consumption of education, Christmas and vitamins; consumption and identity; the consumption of the past; and the influence of Bourdieu on the sociology of consumption.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0631203508
• ISBN 13: 9780631203506
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 332