Consumer Culture and Postmodernism (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society) - Softcover

Featherstone, Mike

 
9780803984158: Consumer Culture and Postmodernism (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0803984154 ISBN 13: 9780803984158
Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1990

Inhaltsangabe

Implicit within claims that society itself is in some sense postmodern is an argument about the priority of consumption as a determinant of everyday life. In this view, mass media advertising and market dynamics lead to a constant search for new fashions, new styles, new sensations and experiences. Material goods are consumed as `communicators'; they are valued as signifiers of taste and of lifestyle. This volume examines the viability of this portrait of contemporary society. Mike Featherstone explores the roots of consumer culture, how it is defined and differentiated and the extent to which it represents the arrival of a `postmodern' world. He examines the theories of consumption and postmodernism among contemporary social theorists such

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Verlag
SAGE Publications Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
1990
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0803984154
ISBN 13 
9780803984158
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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