TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lury,Celia
TI  - Consumer culture 
SN  - 9780745643304
AV  - HC79.C6 L87 1996
U1  - 306.309 22
PY  - 1996///
CY  - New Brunswick
PB  - Rutgers University Press
KW  - Consumption (Economics)
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Consumer behavior
KW  - Culture
KW  - Economic aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-265) and index; 1; Introduction: The Stuff of Material Culture --; 2; Material Culture and Consumer Culture --; 3; The Stylization of Consumption --; 4; Habitat and Habitus --; 5; Making Up and Making Do --; 6; Changing Races, Changing Places --; 7; Back to the Future and Forward to the Past --; 8; Consumer Culture, Identity and Politics
N2  - This book is written as a survey for students who are interested in the nature and role of consumer culture in modern societies. Drawing on a wide range of studies, the author examines the rise of consumer culture and the changing relations between the production and consumption of cultural goods. Rejecting the Marxist principle of production as the lone economic determinant in capitalist society, Lury presents consumerism as an equally active player in the free market; Rather than existing as opposites, production and consumerism are seen as complements, feeding off each other in an endless cycle; Lury weaves unique arguments over the expansive nature of consumption, including explanations as to how poorer segments of society do in fact contribute to consumer culture and how a commodity moves beyond its function and assumes a cultural and symbolic meaning; Not only does the author explore the way an individual's position in social groups structured by class, gender, race, and age affects the nature of his or her participation in consumer culture, but also how this culture itself is instrumental in the defining of social and political groups and the forming of an individual's self-identity
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