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Explorations in the Sociology of Consumption: Fast Food, Credit Cards and Casinos

By George Ritzer

Book information

Publisher
Sage Publications Ltd
Year
2001
ISBN
9780761971207, 0761971203, 076197119X, 9780761971191, 9781412933292
LCC
HF5415.32 .R58 2001
Open Library ID
OL3964708M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
59 MB (61573502 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
272\272
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

In this book, one of the leading social theorists and cultural commentators of modern times, turns his gaze on consumption. George Ritzer, author of the famous McDonaldization Thesis, demonstrates the irrational consequences of the rational desire to consume and commodify. He examines how McDonaldization might be resisted, and situates the reader in the new cultural spaces that are emerging in society: shopping malls, casino hotels, Disneyfied theme parks and Las Vegas -- the new `cathedrals of consumption' as he calls them. The book shows how new processes of consumption relate to globalization theory. In illuminating discussions of the work of Thorstein Veblen and the French situationists, Ritzer unearths the roots of problems of consumption in older sociological traditions. He indicates how transgression is bound up with consumption, through an investigation of the obscene in popular and postmodern culture.

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