Consumption and Consumer Society

Consumption and Consumer Society

The Craft Consumer and Other Essays

Campbell, Colin

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

11/2022

237

Mole

Inglês

9783030836832

15 a 20 dias

330

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Introduction.- The desire for the new: its nature and social location as presented in theories of fashion and modern consumerism.- Consuming Goods and the Good of Consuming.- Conspicuous Confusion? A Critique of Veblen's Theory of Conspicuous Consumption.- The Meaning of objects and the meaning of actions: a critical note on the sociology of consumption and theories of clothing.- Shopping, Pleasure and the Sex War.- Consumption and the Rhetorics of Need and Want.- I Shop therefore I Know that I Am: The Metaphysical Basis of Modern consumerism.- The Craft Consumer: Culture, craft and consumption in a postmodern society.- The curse of the new: how the accelerating pursuit of the new is driving hyper-consumption.- A Matter of Necessity: Reflections on Need and Want in a Time of Lockdown.
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modern consumerism;fashion;conspicuous consumption;shopping;consumption during COVID-19;pandemics and consumption