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The First Edition of this contemporary classic can claim to have put ‘consumer culture’ on the map, certainly in relation to postmodernism. Updated throughout, this expanded new edition includes a fully revised preface that explores the developments in consumer culture since the First Edition. Among the most noteworthy areas discussed are the effect of global warming on consumption, the rise of the new rich, changes in the North/South divide and the new diversity of consumer culture. The result is a book that shakes the boundaries of debate, from one of the foremost writers on culture and postmodernism of the present day.
Towards a Sociology of Postmodern Culture
Towards a Sociology of Postmodern Culture
Postmodernism in Sociology
In Social Theory and Modern Sociology Anthony Giddens outlines ‘Nine Theses on the Future of Sociology, in which the first thesis suggests that ‘Sociology will increasingly shed the residue of nineteenth-and early twentieth-century social thought’ (1987a: 26). Here Giddens develops the currently popular argument that sociology is and will continue to be bound up with the ‘project of modernity’. He does so to point away from the economic reductionism that he sees as a pervasive legacy of nineteenth-century thought, to focus on three other major parameters of modernity: the development of administrative power, the development of military power, and warfare. Finally, he states:
There is the cultural dimension of modernity – something obviously ...
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