Consumerism

Designed to empower readers to advocate for themselves and others, this wide-ranging encyclopedia reveals a surprising range of resources and options that consumers have at their disposal.

Credit and debt appear to be natural, permanent facets of Americans' lives, but a debt-based economy and debt-financed lifestyles are actually recent inventions.

An engrossing review of the development of global consumerism and its impact on sociological issues.

Nineteenth-century England witnessed the birth of capitalist consumerism.

The chapters in this volume have been selected from the best papers presented at the 8th Annual Consumer Culture Theory Conference held at the home of University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ in June 2013.

When artists and artisans can’t make a living, the health of America’s culture is at risk Change is no stranger to us in the twenty-first century.

The global phenomenon of political consumerism is known through such diverse manifestations as corporate boycotts, increased preferences for organic and fairtrade products, and lifestyle choices such as veganism.

Turkey has witnessed remarkable sociocultural change under the regime of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP), particularly regarding its religious communities.

Drink, as an embodied semiotic and material form, mediates social life.

Political Consumerism captures the creative ways in which consumers and citizens turn to the market as their arena for politics.

Examining Iran's recent history through the double lens of domesticity and consumer culture, Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran demonstrates that a significant component of the modernization process in Iran advanced beyond political and public spheres.

Consumers in eighteenth-century England were firmly embedded in an expanding world of goods, one that incorporated a range of novel foods (tobacco, chocolate, coffee, and tea) and new supplies of more established commodities, including sugar, spices, and dried fruits.

Zweimal an denselben Ort in den Urlaub fahren?

Unser Planet ist begrenzt, aber wir müssen uns weiterentwickeln.

A fascinating exploration of how algorithms penetrate the most intimate aspects of our psychologyfrom the pioneering expert on psychological targeting.

Drink, as an embodied semiotic and material form, mediates social life.

Minister Rafiq Hariri on 14 February 2005, was seen by many as an opportunity for Lebanon's fragile political system to move towards a more stable form of democracy.

Why do people behave and think the way they do?

A fascinating exploration of how algorithms penetrate the most intimate aspects of our psychologyfrom the pioneering expert on psychological targeting.

At the turn of the twentieth century, an emerging consumer culture in the United States promoted constant spending to meet material needs and develop social identity and self-cultivation.

In this provocative account, Karl Gerth argues that consumerism rather than communism explains the history of China since 1949.

"e;Luxury Fashion and Culture"e; focuses on the study of how humans use high quality, highly pleasurable, and frequently rare products, services, and experiences to distinguish to themselves and others who they are as well as whom they are not - both within and across cultures.

In this lively study, Rachel Sherman goes behind the scenes in two urban luxury hotels to give a nuanced picture of the workers who care for and cater to wealthy guests by providing seemingly unlimited personal attention.

Social media platforms hold vast amounts of biographical data about our lives.

Since 1979 the world has witnessed a remarkable cycle of personal insolvency law reform.

Retail is going through difficult times and is suffering the consequences of both the economic crisis and the digitization of society.

Food trucks announcing "e;halal"e; proliferate in many urban areas but how many non-Muslims know what this means, other than cheap lunch?

In an unprecedented phenomenon that swept across Britain at the turn of the nineteenth century, writers, advertisers, and architects began to create and sell images of an authentic cultural realm paradoxically considered outside the marketplace.

When artists and artisans can’t make a living, the health of America’s culture is at risk Change is no stranger to us in the twenty-first century.

Youth tourists are often defined as money poor and time rich but there are significant differences in social status, interests, and consumption behaviour within the various segments of this sector.

Youth tourists are often defined as money poor and time rich but there are significant differences in social status, interests, and consumption behaviour within the various segments of this sector.

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A critique of the lifestyles of today's ultra rich bolstered by old-fashioned muckraking, Crass Struggle provides a sharp, original, and often humorous commentary on "e;the bad side of the good life, the underbelly of the potbelly.

Captures the perspectives of the field''s leading thinkers, focusing on foundational and emerging concepts in consumer psychology.

The Creative Tourist brings together four broad areas of academic scholarship: creative tourism, sociology, well-being and new materialism.

The book highlights research undertaken by marketers, social researchers and anthropologists who have an interest in this field.

The Industrial Revolution was previously understood as having awakened an enormous, unquenchable thirst for material consumption.

This book investigates the intersection between consumption, identity and Jewish history in Europe.

Increasingly, consumers in North America and Europe see their purchasing as a way to express to the commercial world their concerns about trade justice, the environment and similar issues.

When there are too many choices, there is no choice.

Consumer capitalism dominates our economy, our politics and our culture.

Food trucks announcing "e;halal"e; proliferate in many urban areas but how many non-Muslims know what this means, other than cheap lunch?