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Consumer Culture and Modernity

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Wiley, 1997 - Social Science - 230 pages
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the issues, concepts and theories through which people have tried to understand consumer culture throughout the modern period, and puts the current state of thinking into a broader context.


Thematically organized, the book shows how the central aspects of consumer culture - such as needs, choice, identity, status, alienation, objects, culture - have been debated within modern theories, from those of earlier thinkers such as Marx and Simmel to contemporary forms of post-structuralism and postmodernism. This approach introduces consumer culture as a subject which - far from being of narrow or recent interest - is intimately tied to the central issues of modern times and modern social thought.


With its reviews of major theorists set within a full account of the development of the subject, this book should be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students in the many disciplines which now study consumer culture, including communications and cultural studies, anthropology and history.

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User Review  - Malcolm - Goodreads

This is an impressive critique of theories of consumerism, consumer culture and consumer society grounded in a broadly Marxist framework that argues that although we regularly rediscover consumers and ... Read full review

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User Review  - Erin - Goodreads

A good overview of all the major debates in consumer culture, filtered through the idea that consumer culture is not solely a product of the postmodern period, but has its beginnings in modernity. Read full review

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About the author (1997)

Don Slater is Senior Lecturer and Fran Tonkiss is Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

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