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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782890503321

Autore

Featherstone Mike

Titolo

Consumer culture and postmodernism [[electronic resource] /] / Mike Featherstone

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Los Angeles, Calif. ; ; London, : SAGE, 2007

ISBN

1-4129-1013-7

1-282-02079-X

9786612020797

1-84920-232-X

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxvii, 203 p.)

Collana

Theory, culture & society

Disciplina

306

Soggetti

Consumption (Economics)

Consumers - Attitudes

Postmodernism

Social evolution

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 (p. [182]-197) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface to the First Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; 1 Modern and Postmodern: Definitions and Interpretations; 2 Theories of Consumer Culture; 3 Towards a Sociology of Postmodern Culture; 4 Cultural Change and Social Practice; 5 The Aestheticization of Everyday Life; 6 Lifestyle and Consumer Culture; 7 City Cultures and Postmodern Lifestyles; 8 Consumer Culture and Global Disorder; 9 Common Culture or Uncommon Cultures?; 10 The Globalization of Diversity; 11 Modernity and the Cultural Question; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This second edition includes a revised preface that explores the developments in consumer culture since 1991, a major new chapter on 'modernity and the cultural question', an update on postmodernism and the development of contemporary theory after postmodernism, and an account of multiple and alternative modernities.