The Sociology of Consumption: a Global Approach

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Content: Title Page -- Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- Understanding Consumption: An Initial Overview -- Chapter Summaries -- 2 Marketing and Retail from the Modern Period until the Postwar Era of Mass Consumption -- Introduction -- The Origins of Modern Consumption -- Advertising and Branding -- Credit -- Branding and New Retail Channels -- The Rise of the Department Store -- Discount and Grocery Stores -- Shopping Malls -- Conclusion -- 3 Market Fragmentation and Globalization -- The Emergence of Lifestyle-based Consumption -- Advertising and Marketing -- Branding -- Credit. Contemporary Retail and Consumption Practices -- Conclusion -- 4 Consumption, Status, and Class -- Introduction -- Historical Origins of Modern Class Divisions -- Status -- Pierre Bourdieu's Concept of Cultural Capital -- Critiques of Bourdieu -- Extensions of Bourdieu's Ideas -- Alternative Conceptions of Class and Consumption -- Consumption and Poverty -- Class and the Retail and Housing Sectors -- Conclusion -- 5 Gender and Race at the Margins and Center of Consumption -- Introduction -- Gender and Consumption -- Sexuality and Consumption -- Race and Consumption. Integrating Gender, Race, Class, and Sexuality: Intersectionality and Consumption -- Conclusion -- 6 The Life Course -- Introduction -- Childhood -- Adolescence and Youth -- Adulthood -- Older Adults -- Conclusion -- 7 Consumer Citizenship and the Nation-State -- Introduction -- Early Models of Consumer Citizenship -- Consumer Citizenship in the Twentieth-century U.S. -- Consumer Citizenship in Europe and East Asia -- Conclusion -- 8 Consumer Citizenship in the Era of Globalization -- Introduction -- Consequences of Consumption -- Ethical Consumption -- Contemporary Consumer Activism. Conclusion -- 9 Conclusion -- References -- Index -- End User License Agreement.