Identifying consumption : subjects and objects in consumer society / Robert G. Dunn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dunn, Robert G.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects.

Consumption (Economics).

Identity (Psychology).

Physical Description:

235 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2008.

Summary:

Identifying Consumption illustrates how an individual's buying habits are shaped by the dynamics of the consumer marketplace-and thus how consumption and identity inform each other. Robert Dunn brings together the various theories of spending and develops a mode of analysis concentrating on the individual subjectivity of consumption. By doing so, he addresses how we spend and how spending relates to status and lifestyle.

Contents:

Part I Commodities, Objects, the Subject

Chapter 1 The Triumph of the Commodity: Theoretical Lineages 21

Chapter 2 Culturalizing Consumption 51

Chapter 3 The Subjectivity of Consumption 77

Part II Lifestyle, Status, Identity

Chapter 4 The Social Relations of Consumption 121

Chapter 5 The Identity of Consumption 157.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781592138692

9781592138708

1592138691

1592138705

OCLC:

182736099