Consumption is a core issue for all disciplines studying 'culture and society'. This four-volume set covers such diverse issues as food, environment and housing in terms of society's seemingly insatiable lust for consumption. Volume One: The Shaping of the Field includes classic and recent theoretical essays of lasting significance for the discipline and for the critique of consumer behaviour, by such influential voices such as Jean Baudrillard and Theodor Adorno. Volume Two: Acquisition deals with how people get what they consume. Acquisition involves economic and social processes of exchange (including markets, gifts, and state provision) and the selections in this volume cover the conditions for access and the institutionalised processes for acquisition, including the encouragement to consume, allowing some reference to issues of cultural production. Volume Three: Appropriation draws from anthropology, sociology and cultural studies to expound on the central idea of appropriation, capturing the importance of people 'domesticating' mass - produced and alien products, converting them into items with personal meanings and using and appreciating them for their own purposes. Volume Four: Appreciation unpacks the frameworks of understanding acceptable conduct grounded in moral and social judgments of symbolic value. Such phenomena are part of the process of appreciation, which is partly a matter of pleasure and satisfaction, partly related to the meanings derived from their aesthetic representation, and partly entailed in judgments about desirability and quality.
- ISBN: 978-1-84860-633-3
- Editorial: Sage Publications
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 1664
- Fecha Publicación: 01/08/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 4
- Idioma: Inglés