This book analyzes the main post-war features of consumption. It traces the historical development of consumption and discusses the major contributions made by sociologists in discussing the subject. Robert Bocock is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Open University.
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Robert Bocock is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Open University and the author of Hegemony, available from Routledge.
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Explores the shift in focus from production to consumption,
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"Consumerism has become the practical ideology of capitalism" is a statement made in the book. This is what Bocock is trying to explore and doing this he reveals the shift from modern to post-modern and how individuals now create their social identity through consumption patterns and not like it used to be through work roles. A mind opening book with loads of interesting reading if you are intrested in consumptions role in society.
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It's a very good book on the consumption .,
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The book has a link about the consumption and the behavier, the culture
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The social and cultural processes surrounding consumption in western capitalism during the twentieth century have been influenced by earlier cultural values, carried by various social status groups into the modern capitalist period. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Second World War, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, Labour Party, New York, Max Weber, Henry Ford New!
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The social and cultural processes surrounding consumption in western capitalism during the twentieth century have been influenced by earlier cultural values, carried by various social status groups into the modern capitalist period. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Second World War, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, Labour Party, New York, Max Weber, Henry Ford New!
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- The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Economy Editions) by Max Weber on page 1, page 40, and Back Matter
- The Protestant Ethic And the Spirit of Capitalism by Gilbert Geis on page 1, page 40, and Back Matter
- An Essay on Liberation by Herbert Marcuse on page 90, page 92, and Back Matter
- The Social and Cultural Forms of Modernity: Understanding Modern Societies, Book III by Kenneth Thompson in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen on page 18, and Back Matter
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