Consumer Culture and Postmodernism

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SAGE, Jul 11, 2007 - Social Science - 232 pages
The first edition of this contemporary classic can claim to have put ′consumer culture′ on the map, certainly in relation to postmodernism. This expanded new edition includes:
  • a fully revised preface that explores the developments in consumer culture since the first edition
  • a major new chapter on ′Modernity and the Cultural Question′
  • an update on postmodernism and the development of contemporary theory after postmodernism
  • an account of multiple and alternative modernities
  • the challenges of consumer culture in Japan and China.

The result is a book that shakes the boundaries of debate, from one of the foremost writers on culture and postmodernism of the present day.

 

Contents

Contents Preface totheFirstEdition Preface to the Second Edition
Definitions and Interpretations
Theories of Consumer Culture
Towardsa Sociology ofPostmodern Culture 4 Cultural Change and Social Practice
The Aestheticization of Everyday Life
Lifestyle and Consumer Culture 7 City Culturesand Postmodern Lifestyles 8 Consumer Culture and Global Disorder 9 Common Culture or Uncommo...
The Globalization of Diversity
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