Consumer Society: Critical Issues & Environmental Consequences: Critical Issues and Environmental Consequences - Brossura

Smart, Barry

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1847870503 ISBN 13: 9781847870506

Casa editrice: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2010

Riassunto

Has consumer culture got out of hand? Are the costs of universal access and pollution too great to bear? This comprehensive, lively and informative book will quickly be recognized as a benchmark in the field. It brings together a huge set of resources for thinking about consumer culture and examining its origins and consequences within a global context. Adept in handling a complex range of theories, Consumer Society scrupulously uses examples throughout to inform and enhance understanding. Smart writes with verve and feeling and has produced a book that simultaneously covers and enlarges our understanding of consumer culture. Clear, engaging and original, this book will be important reading for all those interested in our global culture of consumption including students of sociology, social geography and cultural studies.

Su questo libro

Recensione:

The cultural contradictions of modern capitalism have never been deeper or more dramatic. These contradictions are also confusing. While governments tell citizens to spend in order to save capitalism, economists tell us that western consumers spend too much and Chinese workers, too little. Barry Smart's engaging contribution offers clear insights into the economic mysteries of modern consumption and production, providing in tandem an historical sociology of the rise of America as a consumer society - this is a timely sociological guide to the perplexed
Bryan S. Turner
The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Barry Smart's Consumer society is the best study I have seen of contemporary features of the current stage of capitalism organized around consumption and commodities. The book's range is broad and synoptic and its research is highly impressive. The text is engaging and accessible and should be of interest to a wide range of readers
Douglas Kellner
UCLA, author of Media Spectacle and the Crisis of Democracy

L'autore:

Barry has worked at universities in Australia, England, Japan and New Zealand. He lectured at the University of Sheffield until 1988 and was then Associate-Professor at Auckland University before joining Portsmouth in 1995. He was editor of the Social Futures book series with Routledge and is a co-editor of the monograph series on Social and Political Thought published by Liverpool University Press. Barry has published in a wide range of prestigious journals such as Theory, Culture & Society , European Journal of Social Theory , Body & Society , International Sociology , Philosophy and Social Criticism , Thesis Eleven and the Journal of Classical Sociology. He is currently a member of the editorial boards of Theory, Culture and Society , European Journal of Social Theory , Journal of Classical Sociology and International Journal of Japanese Sociology.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1847870503
• ISBN 13: 9781847870506
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 264