The Sociology of Consumption : A Global Approach

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;The Sociology of Consumption: A Global Approach offers college students, scholars, and interested readers a state-of-the-art overview of consumption the desire for, purchase, use, display, exchange, and disposal of goods and services. The book's global focus, emphasis on social inequality, and analysis of consumer citizenship offer a timely, exciting, and original approach to the topic. Looking beyond the U.S. and Europe, Stillerman engages examples from his and others' research in Chile and other Latin American countries, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and East and South Asia to explore the interaction between global and local forces in consumption. The text explores the lived experience of being a consumer, demonstrating how social inequalities based on class, gender, sexuality, race, and age shape consumer practices and identities. Finally, the book uncovers the important role consumption has played in fueling local and international activism. This welcome new book will be ideal for classes on consumer culture across the social sciences, humanities, and marketing.;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. 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. The Sociology of Consumption: A Global Approach offers college students, scholars, and interested readers a state-of-the-art overview of consumption - the desire for, purchase, use, display, exchange, and disposal of goods and services. The book's global focus, emphasis on social inequality, and analysis of consumer citizenship offer a timely, exciting, and original approach to the topic. Looking beyond the U.S. and Europe, Stillerman engages examples from his and others' research in Chile and other Latin American countries, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and East and South Asia to explore the interaction between global and local forces in consumption. The text explores the lived experience of being a consumer, demonstrating how social inequalities based on class, gender, sexuality, race, and age shape consumer practices and identities. Finally, the book uncovers the important role consumption has played in fueling local and international activism. This welcome new book will be ideal for classes on consumer culture across the social sciences, humanities, and marketing. Book jacket "The Sociology of Consumption: A Global Approach offers college students, scholars, and interested readers a state-of-the-art overview of consumption the desire for, purchase, use, display, exchange, and disposal of goods and services. The book s global focus, emphasis on social inequality, and analysis of consumer citizenship offer a timely, exciting, and original approach to the topic. Looking beyond the U.S. and Europe, Stillerman engages examples from his and others research in Chile and other Latin American countries, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and East and South Asia to explore the interaction between global and local forces in consumption. The text explores the lived experience of being a consumer, demonstrating how social inequalities based on class, gender, sexuality, race, and age shape consumer practices and identities. Finally, the book uncovers the important role consumption has played in fueling local and international activism"--Back cover