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Consumer Culture and Postmodernism - Couverture rigide

Featherstone, Mike

 
9780803984141: Consumer Culture and Postmodernism
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0803984146 ISBN 13 : 9780803984141
Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd, 1990

Synopsis

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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Éditeur
SAGE Publications Ltd
Date d'édition
1990
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0803984146
ISBN 13 
9780803984141
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
192
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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