Summary
Overview
Key Readings
Consumption is a core issue for all disciplines studying culture and society. This four-volume set covers such diverse issues as food, environment, and housing in terms of societys seemingly insatiable lust for consumption.
Volume I includes classic and recent theoretical essays of lasting significance for the discipline and for the critique of consumer behavior, by such influential voices such as Jean Baudrillard and Theodor Adorno. Volume II deals with how people get what they consume. Acquisition involves economic and social processes of exchange (including markets, gifts, and state provision) and the selections in this volume cover the conditions for access and the institutionalized processes for acquisition, including the encouragement to consume, allowing some reference to issues of cultural production. Volume III draws from anthropology, sociology and ...
Editor's Introduction
This collection of essays maps recent developments of social scientific approaches to the understanding of consumption. Consumption now looms large in academic curricula – from marketing to anthropology, economics to sociology. It is also a matter of contemporary concern to governments and their populations. The four volumes in this set make available, in a convenient compilation, important contributions to contemporary debates which will allow a reader without easy access to a well-stocked research library to appreciate the current state of scholarship on the social aspects of consumption. The selection represents a range of social science disciplines, but with a pronounced emphasis on works at the interface of sociology, anthropology and cultural studies. I have included a few important and influential pieces from the ...
Table of Contents
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Volume I: Theoretical and Historical Approaches
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Historical Roots
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1. Consumption and Consumer Society: A Contribution to the History of Ideas
Ulrich Wyrwa
1998
Getting and Spending: European and American Consumer Societies in the Twentieth Century
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2. Capitalism and the Consumer Revolution
Roberta Sassatelli
2007
Consumer Culture: History, Theory and Politics
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3. The Alien Past: Consumer Culture in Historical Perspective
Susan Strasser
2003
Journal of Consumer Policy
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4. Beyond Consumerism: New Historical Perspectives on Consumption
Frank Trentmann
2004
Journal of Contemporary History
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Political Economy
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5. “The Fetishism of the Commodity and its Secret” (1867)
Karl Marx
1867
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy
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Thorstein Veblen
1925
The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions
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7. The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception
Theodor Adorno | Max Horkheimer
1979
Dialectic of Enlightenment
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8. Playing the Consumption Game
Ben Fine
1997
Consumption, Markets and Culture
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Sociology and Anthropology
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Mary Douglas | Baron Isherwood
1979
The World of Goods: Towards an Anthropology of Consumption
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10. The Habitus and the Space of Life-Styles
Pierre Bourdieu
1984
Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
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Paul DiMaggio
1987
American Sociological Review
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12. Perspectives on Consumer Culture
Mike Featherstone
1990
Sociology
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13. Consuming Goods and the Good of Consuming
Colin Campbell
1994
Critical Review
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Georg Simmel | Mark Ritter
1991
Theory, Culture & Society
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Postmodernism and Cultural Studies
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15. Consuming Life
Zygmunt Bauman
2002
Society under Siege
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16. Liberatory Postmodernism and the Reenchantment of Consumption
A. Firat | Alladi Venkatesh
1995
Journal of Consumer Research
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Reconfiguration
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17. Consumer Culture Theory (CCT): Twenty Years of Research
Eric Arnould | Craig Thompson
2005
Journal of Consumer Research
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18. Delectable Materialism: Second Thoughts on Consumer Culture
Michael Schudson
1998
Ethics of Consumption: The Good Life, Justice, and Global Stewardship
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19. The Human Consequences of Consumer Culture
Russell Belk
2004
Elusive Consumption
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Volume II: Acquisition
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Commodification and Cultural Economy
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Frank Trentmann
2009
Archiv für Sozialgeschichte
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21. A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America
Lizabeth Cohen
2004
Journal of Consumer Research
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Xin Zhao | Russell Belk
2008
Journal of Consumer Research
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23. Understanding the Flow of Symbolic Goods in the Global Cultural Economy
Omar Lizardo
2008
International Journal of Contemporary Sociology
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Craig Thompson | Siok Tambyah
1999
Journal of Consumer Research
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25. Poor Chic: The Rational Consumption of Poverty
Karen Halnon
2002
Current Sociology
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Modes of Provision
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26. Notes on the Relationship between Production and Consumption
Alan Warde
1991
Consumption and Class: Divisions and Change
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Douglas Allen
2002
Journal of Consumer Research
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Franck Cochoy
2008
Special Issue on Markets Forms and Marketing Practices
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Daniel Miller
2001
Journal of Consumer Culture
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30. In Defense of Consumer Critique: Revisiting the Consumption Debates of the Twentieth Century
Juliet Schor
2007
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS)
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Production of Culture
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31. Culture as (and after) Production
Marco Santoro
2008
Cultural Sociology
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32. Why do Brands Cause Trouble? a Dialectical Theory of Consumer Culture and Branding
Douglas Holt
2002
Journal of Consumer Research
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33. Body Lessons: Fitness Publishing and the Cultural Production of the Fitness Consumer
Jennifer Maguire
2002
International Review for the Sociology of Sport
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Politics and Ethics of Distribution
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34. Voluntary Simplicity: Characterization, Select Psychological Implications, and Societal Consequences
Amitai Etzioni
1998
Journal of Economic Psychology
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35. Time and Wealth: The Role of Time and Temporalities for Sustainable Patterns of Consumption
Lucia Reisch
2001
Time and Society
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36. Virtue, Responsibility and Consumer Choice: Framing Critical Consumerism
Roberta Sassatelli
2006
Consuming Cultures, Global Perspectives: Historical Trajectories and Multicultural Conflicts
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Volume III: Appropriation
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Singularisation
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37. The Cultural Biography of Things: Commoditization as Process
Igor Kopytoff
1981
The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective
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38. Consumption and Identity: The Cultural Politics of Shopping
Peter Jackson
1999
European Planning Studies
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39. Consumption and Theories of Practice
Alan Warde
2005
Journal of Consumer Culture
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Possessions and Performances
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40. Possessions and the Extended Self
Russell Belk
1988
Journal of Consumer Research
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41. Collecting as a Paradigm of Consumption
Marina Bianchi
1997
Journal of Cultural Economics
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42. The Use of and Commitment to Goods
Kaj Ilmonen
2004
Journal of Consumer Culture
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Ian Woodward
2003
Journal of Sociology
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44. Music Lovers: Taste as Performance
Antoine Hennion
2001
Theory, Culture & Society
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Use
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45. Three Ages of the Automobile: The Cultural Logics of the Car
David Gartman
2004
Theory, Culture & Society
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46. A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Household Energy Use Behaviour in Japan and Norway
Harold Wilhite | Hidetoshi Nakagami | Takashi Masuda | Yukiko Yamaga | Hiroshi Haneda
1996
Energy Policy
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47. Defrosting the Freezer: From Novelty to Convenience – a Narrative of Normalization
Elizabeth Shove | Dale Southerton
2000
Journal of Material Culture
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48. Converging Conventions of Comfort, Cleanliness and Convenience
Elizabeth Shove
2003
Journal of Consumer Policy
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Co-Ordination
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49. Caring Consumers: Gendered Consumption Meanings and the Juggling Lifestyle
Craig Thompson
1996
Journal of Consumer Research
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50. ‘“Squeezing Time”: Allocating Practices, Coordinating Networks and Scheduling Society’
Dale Southerton
2003
Time & Society
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Mechanisms
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51. Fashion: From Class Differentiation to Collective Selection
Herbert Blumer
1969
The Sociological Quarterly
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52. Diderot Unities and the Diderot Effect: Neglected Cultural Aspects of Consumption
Grant McCracken
1990
Culture and Consumption: New Approaches to the Symbolic Character of Consumer Goods and Activities
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53. Brand Community
Albert Muniz | Thomas O'Guinn
2001
Journal of Consumer Research
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54. Identity, Mobility, and the Throwaway Society
Nicky Gregson | Alan Metcalfe | Louise Crewe
2007
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
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Volume IV: Appreciation
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Power and Taste
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55. Elite Distinction: Grand Theory and Comparative Perspectives
Jean-Pascal Daloz
2007
Comparative Sociology
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56. The Aristocracy of Culture
Pierre Bourdieu
1984
Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
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Douglas Holt
1997
Journal of Consumer Research
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58. Changing Highbrow Taste: From Snob to Omnivore
Richard Peterson | Roger Kern
1996
American Sociological Review
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Morris Holbrook | Michael Weiss | John Habich
2002
Marketing Letters
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Differential Appreciation
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60. A Critique of Desire: Distaste and Dislike in Consumer Behavior
Richard Wilk
1997
Consumption, Markets and Culture
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Tally Katz-Gerro
2002
Social Forces
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62. A Cultural Map of the United Kingdom, 2003
Modesto Gayo-Cal | Mike Savage | Alan Warde
2006
Cultural Trends
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63. How Blacks Use Consumption to Shape their Collective Identity: Evidence from Marketing Specialists
Michèle Lamont | Virág Molnár
2001
Journal of Consumer Culture
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Gender
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64. Culture, Class, and Connections
Bonnie Erickson
1996
American Journal of Sociology
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65. Arts Participation as Cultural Capital in the United States, 1982–2002: Signs of Decline?
Paul DiMaggio | Toqir Mukhtar
2004
Poetics
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66. The Question of Culture Consumption and Stratification Revisited
Omar Lizardo
2008
Sociologica: Italian Online Sociological Review
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Global and Local Culture
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67. Coca-Cola: A Black Sweet Drink from Trinidad
Daniel Miller
1998
Material Cultures: Why Some Things Matter
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68. Local Consumption Cultures in a Globalizing World
Peter Jackson
2004
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
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Rick Fantasia
1995
Theory and Society
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70. The Practical Aesthetics of Traditional Cuisines: Slow Food in Tuscany
Mara Miele | Jonathan Murdoch
2002
Sociologia Ruralis
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Alternative Tastes
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71. Income and Happiness: Towards a Unified Theory
Richard Easterlin
2001
The Economic Journal
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72. Time to be Lazy: Work, the Environment and Modern Subjectivities
Éric Darier
1998
Time & Society
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