A social and economic theory of consumption

Kaj Ilmonen was a pioneer in the third wave of the sociology of consumption. This book provides a balanced overview of the sociology of consumption, arguing that the enthusiasm of 'the third wave' exaggerated the role of the symbolicand imaginary at the expense of the materiality of human societies. KAJ ILMONEN was one of the founding members of the European network of thesociology of consumption and a pioneering theorist in the field. . PEKKA SULKUNEN is Professor of Sociology, University of Helsinki, Finland. His previouspublications include 'The Urban Pub'; 'The European New Middle Class'; 'Constructing the New Consumer Society' (edited); 'The Saturated Society'; 'Introduction to Sociology', and a number of other books in Finnish, Swedish, English and French. . KEIJO RAHKONEN is Adjunct Professor of Social Policy and Head ofthe Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki, Finland. . JUKKA GRONOW is Professor of Sociology at Uppsala University, Sweden. . ARTO NORO is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki, Finland. . . INDICE: Foreword - The Sociology of Consumption: A Brief History - Marketsand the Neo-Liberal Utopia of Omnipotent Markets - Commodities and Consumption: General and Specific Features - Want, Need and Commodity - Consumption and the Necessary Economic Conditions for Consumption - The Use and Meanings of Money - Mechanisms of Consumption Choice and their General Cultural Framework - Consumption as Ideological Discourse - Consumption as Use: Our Relationship toCommodities

• ISBN: 978-0-230-24410-8
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 248
• Fecha Publicación: 08/12/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido