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The sociology of consumption has concentrated unduly on the more spectacular and visual aspects of contemporary consumer behavior, thereby constructing an unbalanced and misleading view. This collection emphasizes ordinary rather than extraordinary items, routine and repetitive behavior rather than conscious decision-making. It studies practical contexts of use rather than decisions to purchase and analyzes collective identification rather than personal identity.
Ordinary Consumption promotes a distinctive approach to the understanding of the central practices of consumer society, it is a book with a controversial message, one which will be a source of debate about the appropriate agenda for future research.
| Introduction | |
| Consumption and Routine | |
| Routinization or reflexivity?:consumers and normative claims for environmental considersation | |
| Ordinary and extraordinary consumption | |
| Consuming the ordinary: changing habits versus routinisation | |
| Deviant pleasures and the normative rhetoric of the consumer society | |
| SMART LIFE 9.0 - Representations of everyday life in future studies | |
| Consumption caught in the 'cash nexus' | |
| Networks of provision: consumers, utilities and technologies | |
| Ordinary and Distinctive Kitchens or 'a kitchen is a kitchen is a kitchen' | |
| Lifestyle and social integration: a study of middle class culture in Manchester | |
| Working at consumption: the second home and daily life | |
| The role of states in the creation of consumption norms | |
| Afterword | |
| The implications of ordinary consumption | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
ISBN: 9780415270373
ISBN-10: 0415270375
Series: Complexity and Emergence in Organizations
Audience:
Professional
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 272
Published: 21st September 2001
Dimensions (cm): 25.4 x 17.8
x 2.0
Weight (kg): 0.52
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