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Consumer Culture

 

Appadurai, A., ed. (1998) The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective. Cambridge

Betsky, Aaron (1999) 'Ontario Mills, California: Castle of Consumption in the Empire of Signs' in Moore, Rowan (ed.) Vertigo: The Strange New World of the Contemporary City London: Laurence King, pp.192-203

Betsky, Aaron (2000) 'All The World's A Store: The Spaces of Shopping', in Pavitt, Jane (ed.) Brand New London: V&A Publications

Bourdieu, Pierre. (1984) Distinction: a Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press

Chaney, D., ‘Department Stores as Cultural Form’, Theory, Culture and Society 3, (1983).

Corrigan, Peter (1997) The Sociology of Consumption: an Introduction London: Sage

Deaton, Angus (1992) Understanding Consumption Oxford: OUP

Douglas, M., and B. Isherwood. (1979) The World of Goods: Towards an Anthropology of Consumption. New York, 1979.

du Gay, Paul (1996) Consumption and Identity at Work London: Sage

Featherstone, Mike (1991) Consumer Culture and Postmodernism London: Sage

Gabriel, Yiannis and Lang, Tim (1995) The Unmanageable Consumer: Contemporary Consumption and its Fragmentations London : Sage

Gardner, Carl and Sheppard, Julie (1989) Consuming Passion: The Rise of Retail Culture London: Unwin Hyman

Howes, David (ed.). 1996. Cross-Cultural Consumption: Global Markets, Local Realities. London: Routledge.

Jackson, Peter and Thrift, Nigel (1995) ‘Geographies of Consumption’ in Acknowledging Consumption: A Review of New Studies ed. Miller, Daniel London: Routledge, pp.204-37

Julier, Guy (2000) The Culture of Design London: Sage

Kopytoff, Igor (1986) ‘The cultural biography of things: commoditization as process’ in Appadurai, Arjun (ed.) The social life of things: Commodites in cultural perspective Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.64-94

Lury, Celia (1996) Consumer Culture Cambridge: Polity Press

McCracken, Grant (1990) Culture and Consumption: New Approaches to the Symbolic Character of Consumer Goods and Activities Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press

Miller, D (1998). Shopping, Place and Identity. London,.

Miller, Daniel (1987) Material Culture and Mass Consumption Oxford: Basil Blackwell

Miller, Daniel (1995) ‘Consumption Studies as the Transformation of Anthropology’ in Acknowledging Consumption: A review of New Studies ed. Miller, Daniel London: Routledge, pp.339-47

Miller, Daniel. (1997) ‘Consumption and its Consequences’ in Mackay, Hugh (ed.) Consumption and Everyday Life London: Sage

Miller, Daniel. (1988) 'Appropriating the State on the Council Estate', Man 23: 353-72

Ritzer, George (1993) The McDonaldization of Society: An Investigation into the Changing Character of Contemporary Social Life London: Pine Forge Press

Ritzer, George (2001) Explorations in the Sociology of Consumption: Fast Food, Credit Cards and Casinos London: Sage

Ritzer, George (2005) Enchanting a Disenchanted World: Revolutionizing the Means of Consumption 2nd Edition. London: Sage

Slater, Don (1997) Consumer Culture and Modernity London: Polity

Urry, John (1995) Consuming Places London: Routledge

Whiteley, N. and Abercrombie, N. (eds.) The Authority of the Consumer London: Routledge, pp.240-52

Whitely, Nigel (1994) 'High art and the high street: the 'commerce-and-culture' debate' in Keat, R., Whitely, N. and Abercrombie, N. (eds.) The Authority of the Consumer London: Routledge, 119-37

 

 

 

 

 





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