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Consumer culture : a reference handbook / Douglas J. Goodman and Mirelle Cohen.

Lippincott Library HC79.C6 G665 2004
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Goodman, Douglas J.
Contributor:
Cohen, Mirelle.
Series:
Contemporary world issues
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects.
Consumption (Economics).
Consumers.
Physical Description:
xv, 251 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Place of Publication:
Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, [2004]
Summary:
SERIES HIGHLIGHTS: - Thematic essay and topical entry formats- Extensive resources for further research- Coverage of critical issues facing America and the world
Contents:
1 From Consumption to Consumer Culture 1
Consumption as a Culture 3
Traditional Consumption 5
Fashion 6
Fashioning Demand 11
Department Stores 13
Middle-Class Culture Is Consumer Culture 18
After the Department Store 21
2 The Contradictions of Consumer Culture 27
Economics of Consumption 28
Consumer Culture and Its Contradictions 31
Contradictions between Consumer Culture and Capitalist Production 32
Contradictions between Consumer Culture and Bourgeois Culture 34
The Consumer as Sovereign and as Dupe 35
Consumer Contradictions in Politics 41
3 The Consumption of Anticonsumption 49
Hip Consumerism 51
New Age Consumerism 55
Cheesy Consumerism 58
Consumption as an International Social Problem 59
Glocalization 60
McDonaldization as Heterogeneity and Homogeneity 62
The Contradictions of Global Consumer Culture 64
The Consumption of Anti-Americanization 66
McDonaldization in France 67
4 Stigmatizing Inequality in Consumer Culture 75
Race and Ethnicity 78
Gender: The Feminine 83
Sexual Orientation and Camp 86
Class 70
Style as an Individual Expression 93
Inequality Based on Age 96
The Poor 99
5 Anonymous Inequality in Global Consumer Culture 109
Starbucks and Anonymous Inequality 111
Coffee and Capitalism 116
Economic Cosmopolitanism 120
The Latte Revolution and Fair Trade 122
Distance between Producers and Consumers 125
Boycott Movements 129
6 People, Events, Trends, and Organizations 141
People 141
Charlotte Beers (1935-) 141
William Bernbach (1911-1982) 142
Aristide Boucicaut (1810-1877) 143
Florence Kelley (1859-1932) 144
John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) 145
Ray Kroc (1902-1984) 146
Ralph Nader (1934-) 147
Vance Packard (1914-1996) 148
Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) 149
Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) 149
Aaron Montgomery Ward (1843-1913) 150
Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795) 152
Helen Rosen Woodward (1882-1960) 153
Events, Trends, and Organizations 154
Bourgeois Culture 154
Civil Rights Boycotts (1950s and 1960s) 155
Diners Club Card (1950) 156
Great Depression (1929-1939) 157
The Peacock Revolution (1968) 158
Starbucks 159
Volkswagen Beetle 160
World Trade Organization (WTO) 161
7 Organizations, Associations, and Government and International Agencies 163
Selected Organizations Based in the United States 163
Selected Organizations Based Abroad 175.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
1576079759
OCLC:
53083860

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