Retail and the artifice of social change / Steven Miles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miles, Steven, author.

Series:

Routledge advances in sociology ; 161.

Routledge advances in sociology ; 161

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects.

Consumption (Economics).

Consumers.

Retail trade--Social aspects.

Retail trade.

Social change.

Physical Description:

168 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

In Retail and the Artifice of Social Change, Steven Miles presents a cross-disciplinary analysis of the evolution of retail and how in both its material and virtual guises it has come to reframe our relationship with the social world. Retail has become increasingly influential in homogenising the urban experience. And yet in reacting to trends in virtual consumption retailers are also becoming more and more conscious of the need to engage with consumers in more sophisticated ways. Retail and Social Change will interest students and scholars in geography, cultural studies, sociology, marketing and business studies interested in how and why retail pervades both our physical and emotional lives in increasingly unexpected ways. It will provide a lively, comparative and thought-provoking contribution that interrogates the implications of retail change, for what it means to be a citizen of a consumer society in the twenty-first century. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : retail and social change

The individualised consumer

Shopping for identity

Whatever happened to the city?

The supermarket

Out-of-town retail

Experiential retail

Tourism and authenticity

Retail online

Conclusion : the artifice of social change.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138022805

1138022802

OCLC:

933567194