Consumer culture / Celia Lury

By:

Lury, Celia

Publication details: Cambridge : Polity Press, cop. 1996Edition: 1st edDescription: vii, 273 pISBN:

0745614418

Summary: This book is written as an introductory textbook for students who are interested in the nature and role of consumer culture in modern societies. Drawing on a wide range of studies, the author examines the rise of consumer culture and the changing relations between the production and consumption of cultural goods. She argues that consumption has become increasingly stylized and now provides an important context for everyday creativity. The author explores the way an individual's position in social groups structured by class, gender, race and age affects the nature of his or her participation in consumer culture. She also argues that this has contributed to changes in the ways in which individuals belong to these social groups. Consumer culture is thus seen to provide new ways of creating social and political identities. Clearly written and well illustrated, this book is a lively and engaging introdudion to a topic which is of growing importance in media and cultural studies and the sociology of culture. (Font: Editor)

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Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: The Stufi of Material Culture -- 2. Material Culture and Consumer Culture -- 3. The Stylization of Consumption -- 4. Habitat and Habitus -- 5. Making Up and Making Do -- 6. Changing Races, Changing Places -- 7. Back to the Future and Forward to the Past -- 8. Consumer Culture, Identity and Politics -- Bibliography -- Index

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