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Mass Production and Consumption
Though mass production essentially refers to the manufacture of a product on a large scale, it generally has a more specific meaning. The term is most commonly associated with the production of large quantities of standardized goods using assembly-line techniques. It was the introduction of this approach to industrial production that transformed much of twentieth-century manufacturing, and supported the flood of goods into consumer markets (and into other markets such as the Second World War's military forces).
Assembly-Line Production
In an assembly line, the good that is the end of production is constructed in a step-by-step fashion, in which successive components are put together and specific operations performed (e.g., the parts of a car are fitted together, paints are sprayed onto the body, and so on). ...
- Everyday Life
- Addiction
- Adornment
- Aestheticization of Everyday Life
- Aesthetics
- Alternative Medicine
- Americanization
- Anorexia
- Architecture
- Art and Cultural Worlds
- Asceticism
- Authenticity
- Barbie Dolls
- Body Shop, The
- Body, The
- Bricolage
- Car Cultures
- Childhood
- Cinema
- Civilizing Processes
- Clothing Consumption
- Clubbing
- Coffee Shops
- Collecting and Collectibles
- Consumer Dissatisfaction
- Consumer Illnesses and Maladies
- Consumer Socialization
- Convenience
- Cool Hunters
- Cosmetic Surgery
- Cosmetics
- Cultural Flows
- Dandyism
- Desire
- Dieting
- Dining Out
- Discount Stores
- Downshifting
- Emotions
- Family Meal
- Fans
- Fashion
- Food Consumption
- Gambling
- Gardening
- Glastonbury/Woodstock
- Hair Care/Hairdressing
- Happiness
- Harried Leisure Class
- Hedonism
- Higher Education
- Hobbyists and Amateurs
- Imaginative Hedonism
- Inventing Tradition
- Jeans
- Leisure
- Mass Tourism
- Memorials
- Memory
- Metrosexual
- Multiculturalism
- Nostalgia
- Obesity
- Organic Food
- Pubs and Wine Bars
- Recreation
- Retro
- Routines and Habits
- Satiation
- Seaside Resorts
- Senses
- Sex
- Sex Tourism
- Slow Food Movement
- Sociability
- Souvenirs
- Sports
- Style
- Supermodels
- Tamed Hedonism
- Taste
- Thrift
- Toys
- T-Shirts
- Typologies of Shoppers
- Waste
- Weddings
- Well-Being
- Work-and-Spend Cycle
- Youth Culture
- Geographies and Histories of Consumer Culture
- Air and Rail Travel
- Automobiles
- Bicycles
- British Empire
- Car-Boot Sales and Flea Markets
- Caribbean and the Slave Trade
- Carnivals
- Christianity
- Coffee
- Cold War
- Colonialism
- Confectionery
- Consumer Co-Operatives
- Consumer Culture in Africa
- Consumer Culture in East Asia
- Consumer Culture in Latin America
- Consumer Nationalism
- Consumer Revolution in Eighteenth-Century Britain
- Consumption in Postsocialist China
- Consumption in Postsocialist Societies: Eastern Europe
- Consumption in the United States: Colonial Times to the Cold War
- Delocalization
- Department Stores
- Diaspora
- Disney
- Do-It-Yourself
- Enlightenment
- European Union
- Famine
- Flaneur/euse
- Franchising
- Gendering of Public and Private Space
- Ghettos
- Grand Tour
- Great Depression (U.S.)
- Hinduism
- History of Food
- Home Computer
- Islam
- Italian Fascism and Fashion
- Japan as a Consumer Culture
- Liminality
- Locality
- Medieval Consumption
- Metropole
- Moral Geography
- National Cultures
- Opium Trade
- Porcelain
- Radio
- Rationing
- Sears, Roebuck and Company
- Shopping
- Smuggling and Black Markets
- Socialism and Consumption
- Spaces and Places
- Spaces of Shopping
- Spas
- Spices
- Suburbia
- Sugar
- Tea
- Textiles
- Tobacco
- Tourist Gaze
- Transnational Capitalism
- Tupperware
- Urban Cultures
- Voluntary Associations
- Walmart
- Wine
- World Exhibitions
- Zoos and Wildlife Parks
- Methods and Trends
- Actor-Network Theory
- Attitude Surveys
- Autoethnography
- Comparing Consumer Cultures
- Consumer Expenditure Surveys
- Consumer Interviews
- Consumption and Time Use
- Consumption Patterns and Trends
- Content Analysis
- Conversation Analysis
- Databases and Consumers
- Discourse Analysis
- Econometrics
- Economic Indicators
- Ethnography
- Focus Groups
- Historical Analysis
- Lifestyle Typologies
- Likert Scales
- Longitudinal Studies
- Mass Observation
- Measuring Satisfaction
- Measuring Standards of Living
- Measuring the Environmental Impact of Consumption
- Methodologies for Studying Consumer Culture
- Methods of Market Research
- Motivation Research
- Multiple Correspondence Analysis
- Multisited Ethnography
- Multivariate Analysis
- Object Biographies
- Opinion Polls
- Production of Culture
- Social Network Analysis
- Spatial Analysis
- Surveys
- Time-Use Diaries
- Persons
- Adorno, Theodor
- Althusser, Louis
- Bakhtin, Mikhail
- Barthes, Roland
- Bataille, Georges
- Baudrillard, Jean
- Benjamin, Walter
- Bourdieu, Pierre
- Braudel, Fernand
- de Certeau, Michel
- Douglas, Mary
- Durkheim, Émile
- Elias, Norbert
- Freud, Sigmund
- Galbraith, John Kenneth
- Goffman, Erving
- Gramsci, Antonio
- Horkheimer, Max
- Kant, Immanuel
- Keynes, John Maynard
- Kyrk, Hazel
- Lévi-Strauss, Claude
- Lasch, Christopher
- Lazarsfeld, Paul Felix
- Lefebvre, Henri
- Linder, Staffan Burenstam
- Lyotard, Jean-François
- Mandeville, Bernard
- Marcuse, Herbert
- Marshall, Alfred
- Marx, Karl
- Maslow, Abraham
- Mauss, Marcel
- McLuhan, Marshall
- Mead, George Herbert
- Patten, Simon Nelson
- Rostow, Walt Whitman
- Silverstone, Roger
- Simmel, Georg
- Smith, Adam
- Sombart, Werner
- Veblen, Thorstein Bunde
- Weber, Max
- Politics and Consumption
- Alternative Consumption
- Carbon Trading
- Citizenship
- Civil Society
- Consumer Apathy
- Consumer Culture in the USSR
- Consumer Policy (China)
- Consumer Policy (European Union)
- Consumer Policy (Japan)
- Consumer Policy (United States)
- Consumer Policy (World Trade Organization)
- Consumer Protest: Animal Welfare
- Consumer Protest: Anticapitalism
- Consumer Protest: Environment
- Consumer Protest: Water
- Consumer Rights and the Law
- Culture Jamming
- Culture-Ideology of Consumerism
- Feminist Movement
- Food Scares
- Governmentality
- Inequalities
- Life(style) Politics
- Luxury Taxes
- New Right
- Organ and Blood Donations
- Philanthropy
- Political and Ethical Consumption
- Prosumption
- Public Goods
- Public Sphere
- Resistance
- Responsible Consumption
- Social Movements
- State Provisioning
- Subversion
- Voting Behaviors
- Production, Exchange, and Distribution
- Advertising
- Branding
- Celebrity
- Channels of Desire
- Christmas
- Coca-Cola
- Collective Consumption
- Companies as Consumers
- Consumer Education
- Consumer Regulation
- Consumer Testing and Protection Agencies
- Counterfeited Goods
- Craft Production
- Credit
- Cultural Intermediaries
- Culture Industries
- Cycles of Production and Consumption
- Debt
- De-Skilling, Re-Skilling, and Up-Skilling
- Division of Labor
- Domestic Services
- Eco-Labeling
- E-Commerce
- Electronic Point of Sale (EPOS)
- Emotional Labor
- Energy Consumption
- Environmental Footprinting
- Fair Trade
- Fashion Forecasters
- Fashion Industry
- Global Cities
- Global Institutions
- Health Care
- Hire-Purchase and Rental Goods
- Household Budgets
- Industrial Society
- Informal Economy
- Information Society
- Informational Capital
- Infrastructures and Utilities
- Inheritance
- Innovation Studies
- Licensing of Clothing Brands
- Mass Production and Consumption
- Media Convergence and Monopoly
- Money
- Neuromarketing
- Opinion Leaders
- Outsourcing
- Packaging
- Pink Pounds/Dollars
- Post-Fordism
- Postindustrial Society
- Product Loss Leaders
- Product Placements
- Renewable Resources
- Reuse/Recycling
- Self-Service Economy
- Service Industry
- Sneakers/Trainers
- Social and Economic Development
- Store Loyalty Cards
- Sumptuary Laws
- Supermarkets
- Systems of Provision
- Trade Standards
- Trademarks
- Social Divisions and Social Groups
- Age and Aging
- American Dream
- Belonging
- Binge and Excess
- Collective Identity
- Consumer Anxiety
- Cosmopolitanism
- Domestic Division of Labor
- Elites
- Ethnicity/Race
- Families
- Femininity
- Friendship
- Gender
- Generation
- Households
- Identity
- Interpellation
- Life Course
- Lifestyle
- Masculinity
- Migration
- Mimesis
- Moral Economy
- Othering
- Positional Goods
- Retirement
- Romantic Love
- Seduced and Repressed
- Self-Presentation
- Self-Reflexivity
- Sexuality
- Single-Person Households
- Social Class
- Social Exclusion
- Social Networks
- Status
- Subaltern
- Symbolic Violence
- Technology and Media
- Audience Research
- Bollywood
- Broadcast Media
- Comics
- Cyborgs
- Domestic Technologies
- Electronic Video Gaming
- Feminism and Women's Magazines
- Fine Arts
- Gender Advertising
- Hollywood
- Information Technology
- Internet
- Men's Magazines
- Mobile Media Gadgets of the Analog Age
- Mobile Phones
- Performing Arts/Performance Arts
- Personals/Personal Ads
- Photography and Video
- Planned Obsolescence
- Popular Music
- Print Media
- Reality TV
- Second Life
- Soap Operas and Telenovelas
- Social Shaping of Technology
- Sociotechnical Systems
- Teenage Magazines
- Telephones
- Television
- Textual Poachers
- Virtual Communities
- Walkmans and iPods
- Women's Magazines
- Theoretical Perspectives and Concepts
- Acculturation
- Affluent Society
- Alienation
- Anomie
- Anthropology
- Appropriation
- Attitude Theory
- Beauty Myth
- Bounded Rationality
- Capitalism
- Circuits of Culture/Consumption
- Cognitive Structures
- Commercialization
- Commodification
- Commodities
- Communication Studies
- Conspicuous Consumption
- Consumer (Freedom of) Choice
- Consumer Behavior
- Consumer Demand
- Consumer Durables
- Consumer Moods
- Consumer Society
- Consumer Sovereignty
- Consuming the Environment
- Convention Theory
- Craft Consumer
- Cultural Capital
- Cultural Fragmentation
- Cultural Omnivores
- Cultural Studies
- Cultural Turn
- Decommodification
- Dematerialization
- Design
- Diderot Effect
- Diffusion Studies and Trickle Down
- Discourse
- Disorganized Capitalism
- Economic Psychology
- Economic Sociology
- Economics
- Embodiment
- Engel's Law
- Entrepreneurs
- Environmental Social Sciences and Sustainable Consumption
- Ethnology/Folklore Studies
- Experimental Economics
- Externalities
- False Consciousness/False Needs
- Gender and the Media
- Geography
- Gifts and Reciprocity
- Globalization
- Glocalization
- Goal-Directed Consumption
- Habitus
- Hegemony
- Hierarchy of Needs
- History
- Hyperreality
- Inalienable Wealth/Inalienable Possessions
- Income
- Individualization
- Informalization
- Keynesian Demand Management
- Labor Markets
- Leisure Studies
- Luxury and Luxuries
- Markets and Marketing
- Marxist Theories
- Mass Culture (Frankfurt School)
- Material Culture
- Materialism and Postmaterialism
- McDonaldization
- Modernization Theory
- Moralities
- Narcissism
- Need and Wants
- Neo-Tribes
- Network Society
- Novelty
- Obsession
- Ordinary Consumption
- Orientalism
- Philosophy
- Political Economy
- Political Science
- Postcolonial Theory
- Postmodernism
- Post-Structuralism
- Potlatch
- Poverty
- Preference Formation
- Price and Price Mechanisms
- Promotional Culture
- Protestant Ethic
- Psychoanalysis
- Psychology
- Quality of Life
- Queer Theory
- Rationalization
- Reception Theory
- Reification
- Risk Society
- Rituals
- Sacred and Profane
- Scarcity
- Self-Interest
- Semiotics
- Simulacrum
- Social Distinction
- Sociology
- Spectacles
- Structuralism
- Subculture
- Surplus Value
- Surrealism
- Symbolic Capital
- Symbolic Value
- Taboo
- Theories of Practice
- Theory of Planned Behavior
- Totemism
- Tourism Studies
- Trust
- Urbanization
- Value: Exchange and Use Value
- Visual Culture
- World-Systems Analysis
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