Consumption : a sociological analysis / Alan Warde.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Warde, Alan, author.

Series:

Consumption and public life

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consumption (Economics)--Sociological aspects.

Consumption (Economics).

Physical Description:

xi, 261 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

London, United Kingdom : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]

Summary:

This book critically reviews recent social scientific investigations of consumption, a controversial topic with moral overtones, and of popular public interest and political and economic significance. The author explores how consumption affects personal identity and social position, developing a sociological analysis using theories of practice to account for everyday consumption, its role in the social order, and its consequences for environmental sustainability. The book offers a controversial analysis which explains consumption not in terms of the purchasing of commodities but of the organization and coordination of daily practices. Consumption will be of interest to scholars and students of sociology, anthropology, geography, cultural studies, consumer research, business studies and social theory.

Contents:

1. Introduction

Part I: The Development of the Sociology of Consumption

2. Sociology and Consumption

3. The Development of the Sociology of Consumption

Part II: Consumption and Practice

4. Consumption as Appropriation: On the use of 'Consumption' and Consumption as Use

5. Consumption and Theories of Practice

Part III: Consumption, Taste and Power

6. Practice and Field: Revising Bourdieu's Concepts

7. Re-assessing Cultural Capital

Part IV: Consumption, Critique and Politics

8. Consumption and the Critique of Society

9. Sustainable Consumption: Practices, Habits and Politics

10. Illusions of Sovereignty and Choice.

ISBN:

1137556811

9781137556813

9781137556820

113755682X

OCLC:

970391125