Title Consumer culture : history, theory and politics / Roberta Sassatelli.

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	HC79.C6 S22413 2007	Available	---

Edition	1st ed.
Description	vi, 237 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-229) and index.
Note	Translation of: Consumo, cultura e società.
Contents	The rise of consumer culture. Capitalism and the consumer revolution ; The cultural production of economic value -- Theories of consumer agency. Utility and social competition ; Needs, manipulation and simulation ; Taste, identity and practices -- The politics of consumption. Representations and consumerism ; Commodities and consumers ; Contexts of consumption.
Summary	Showing the culture & institutional processes that have brought the notion of the 'consumer' to life, 'Consumer Culture' guides the reader on a comprehensive journey through the history of how we have come to understand ourselves as consumers in a consumer society & reveals the profound ambiguities & ambivalences inherent within.
Subject	Consumption (Economics)
	Consumption (Economics)
	Consumers -- Attitudes.
	Consumers -- Attitudes.
	Marketing -- Social aspects.
	Marketing -- Social aspects.
Added Title	Consumo, cultura e società. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2007048943
Other Form:	Online version: Sassatelli, Roberta. Consumo, cultura e società. English. Consumer culture. 1st ed. Los Angeles : SAGE Publications, 2007 (OCoLC)693205780
ISBN	1412911818 (paperback)
	141291180X
	9781412911801
	9781412911818 (paperback)