Consumption and Consumer Society: The Craft Consumer and Other Essays

by Colin Campbell

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030836800
• ISBN13: 9783030836801
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"