Consumption and Generational Change: The Rise of Consumer Lifestyles

by Ian Rees Jones

The study of consumption in social life is growing. Moving from being a relatively unimportant part of the processes of production, distribution, and exchange, questions of how people consume and to what ends now occupy center stage. Today's capitalism is exemplified by a global arena of consumption in which distance is no obstacle to distribution and ownership. Equally, social distinctions that accompanied classically "modern" forms of consumption...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138508551
• ISBN13: 9781138508552
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 218 Pages