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Record Nr.

UNINA9910157454403321

Autore

Stillerman Joel (Sociologist)

Titolo

The sociology of consumption : a global approach / / Joel Stillerman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, England ; ; Malden, Massachusetts : , : Polity, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-7456-9691-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (223 p.)

Disciplina

306.3

Soggetti

Consumption (Economics) - Social aspects

Consumer behavior

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Marketing and retail from the modern period until the postwar era of mass consumption -- Market fragmentation and globalization -- Consumption, status, and class -- Gender and race at the margins and center of consumption -- The life course -- Consumer citizenship and the nation-state -- Consumer citizenship in the era of globalization -- Conclusion.