Consumption and Everyday Life

Mark Paterson

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN: 9781000890631
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

With an emphasis on everyday life, this respected text offers a lively and perceptive account of the key theories and ideas which dominate the field of consumption and consumer culture. This third revised and expanded edition is a major update of the text of the second edition, adding new chapters on youth culture and consumption, retail psychology, gender and consumption, the globalization of food, and digital consumption and platform capitalism.

Theoretical perspectives are introduced such as theories of practice, critical theory, semiotics, and psychoanalysis. Examples from film, literature, and television are used to illustrate concepts and trends in consumption, and a wide range of engaging and up-to-date case studies of consumption are employed throughout. Historical context is provided to help the reader understand how we became consumers in the first place. Written by an experienced teacher, the book offers an accessible and thought-provoking introduction to the concept of consumption for students in sociology, cultural studies, human geography, history, anthropology, and social psychology.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title Page
• Endorsement Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of figures
• List of table
• Preface
• Introduction: We are all consumers
• Part I The Times of Consumption: Modernity
• Part II How We Consume Now
• Part III The Spaces of Consumption: Globalization
• Index