Consumer Culture and Modernity

by Don Slater

Book Overview

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the issues, concepts and theories through which people have tried to understand consumer culture throughout the modern period, and puts the current state of thinking into a broader context. Thematically organized, the book shows how the central aspects of consumer culture - such as needs, choice, identity, status, alienation, objects, culture - have been debated within modern theories, from those...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745603041
• ISBN13: 9780745603049
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"