Author: Gary Cro
Publisher: Columbia University Pre
Keywords: century, consuming
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2000-09-15
List price: $83.50
ISBN-10: 0231113129
ISBN-13: 9780231113120

The unqualified victory of consumerism in America was not a foregone conclusion. The United States has traditionally been the home of the most aggressive and often thoughtful criticism of consumption, including Puritanism, Prohibition, the simplicity movement, the ´60s hippies, and the consumer rights movement. But at the dawn of the twenty-first century, not only has American consumerism triumphed, there isn´t even an "ism" left to challenge it. An All-Consuming Century is a rich history of how market goods came to dominate American life over that remarkable hundred years between 1900 and 2

Author: Jerome De Groot
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: history, consuming
Number of Pages: 292
Published: 2008-12-09
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 0415399467
ISBN-13: 9780415399463

Non-academic history - ’public history’ - is a complex, dynamic entity which impacts on the popular understanding of the past at all levels. In "Consuming History", Jerome de Groot examines how society consumes history and how a reading of this consumption can help us understand popular culture and issues of representation. This book analyses a wide range of cultural entities - from computer games to daytime television, from blockbuster fictional narratives such as Da Vinci Code to DNA genealogical tools - to analyse how history works in contemporary popular culture. Jerome de Groo

Author: Tom Beaudoin
Publisher: Sheed & Ward
Keywords: integrating, faith, consuming
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2007-01-25
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1580512089
ISBN-13: 9781580512084

Americans search for identity through a paradoxical pair of passions: spirituality and consumerism. On the one hand, we participate in religion or practice spirituality and on the other hand we are keen consumers. But, as Tom Beaudoin’s Consuming Faith makes clear, if we truly seek to put our spirituality into practice, we must integrate who we are with what we buy. How are we linked to the rest of the world through our purchases? What does faith have to do with what we buy? With a new updated preface by the author, this paperback edition invites us to think about how our purchases affe

Author: Zygmunt Bauman
Publisher: Polity
Keywords: life, consuming
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2007-11-27
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0745640028
ISBN-13: 9780745640020

With the advent of liquid modernity, the society of producers is transformed into a society of consumers. In this new consumer society, individuals become simultaneously the promoters of commodities and the commodities they promote. They are, at one and the same time, the merchandise and the marketer, the goods and the travelling salespeople. They all inhabit the same social space that is customarily described by the term the market. The test they need to pass in order to acquire the social prizes they covet requires them to recast themselves as products capable of drawing attention to themsel

Authors:Janelle S. Taylor, Linda L. Layne,
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Keywords: motherhood, consuming
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2004-08-06
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0813534305
ISBN-13: 9780813534305

Consuming Motherhood addresses the provocative question of how motherhood and consumption—as ideologies and as patterns of social action—mutually shape and constitute each other in contemporary North American and European social life. Ideologically, motherhood and consumption are often constructed in opposition to each other, with motherhood standing in as a naturalized social relation that is thought to be uniquely free of the calculating instrumentality that dominates commercial relations. Yet, in social life, motherhood and consumption are inseparable. Whether shopping for children’s

Authors:David Bell, Gill Valentine,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: geographies, consuming
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1997-06-11
List price: $240.00
ISBN-10: 0415137675
ISBN-13: 9780415137676

Food occupies a seemingly mundane position in all our lives, yet the ways we think about shopping, cooking and eating are actually intensely reflexive. The daily pick and mix of our eating habits is one way we experience spatial scale. From the relationship of our food intake to our body-shape, to the impact of our tastes upon global food-production regimes, we all read food consumption as a practice which impacts on our sense of place.Drawing on anthropological, sociological and cultural readings of food consumption, as well as empirical material on shopping, cooking, food technology and the

Author: JOHN Urry
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: sociology, library, international, places, consuming
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1995-03-28
List price: $42.95
ISBN-10: 0415113113
ISBN-13: 9780415113113

John Urry has been discussing and writing on these and similar questions for the past fifteen years. In Consuming Places, he gathers together his most significant contributions. Urry begins with an extensive review of the connections between society, time and space. The concept of ’society’, the nature of ’locality’, the significance of ’economic restructuring’, and the concept of the ’rural’, are examined in relationship to place. The book then considers how places have been transformed by the development of service occupations and industries. C