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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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LIBRA HC79.C6 G665 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goodman, Douglas J.
- 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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