Consumer culture and postmodernism / Mike Featherstone.
By: Featherstone, Mike
Series: Theory, culture and societyPublisher: London : Sage, 1991Description: xii,164p. 24 cm001: 9879ISBN: 0803984154Subject(s): Culture | Postmodernism | Consumerism | ConsumptionDDC classification: 306.3 FEA
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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
Bibliography: p148-158.-Includes index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface
- In Pursuit of the Postmodern
- Theories of Consumer Culture
- Towards a Sociology of Postmodern Culture
- Postmodernism, Cultural Change and Social Practice
- Postmodernism and the Aestheticization of Everyday Life
- Lifestyle and Consumer Culture
- City Cultures and Postmodern Lifestyles
- Postmodernism, Consumer Culture and Global Disorder
- Common Culture or Uncommon Cultures?
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