Consumer Culture and PostmodernismSAGE, 11 lug 2007 - 232 pagine The first edition of this contemporary classic can claim to have put ′consumer culture′ on the map, certainly in relation to postmodernism. This expanded new edition includes:
The result is a book that shakes the boundaries of debate, from one of the foremost writers on culture and postmodernism of the present day. |
Sommario
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3 Towards a Sociology of Postmodern Culture | 28 |
4 Cultural Change and Social Practice | 50 |
5 The Aestheticization of Everyday Life | 64 |
6 Lifestyle and Consumer Culture | 81 |
7 City Cultures and Postmodern Lifestyles | 93 |
8 Consumer Culture and Global Disorder | 110 |
9 Common Culture or Uncommon Cultures? | 127 |
10 The Globalization of Diversity | 142 |
11 Modernity and the Cultural Question | 147 |
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academic aesthetic aestheticization of everyday argued artistic and intellectual audiences avant-garde Baudelaire Baudrillard become Bourdieu carnivalesque central centres century changes China cities common culture concept consumer culture consumption contemporary counterculture critical cultural capital cultural intermediaries cultural sphere Culture & Society discussion economic Elias emergence emotional emphasis enclaved entails ernism example expansion experience fashion Featherstone flâneur forms gentrification global groups Habermas Hence high culture Ikegami images interest Jameson Japan knowledge lifestyle Lyotard mass culture means metanarratives middle class Ming Dynasty modernity modes Norbert Elias notion particular petite bourgeoisie popular culture postmod postmodern architecture postmodern art postmodern culture practices public sphere question R.H. Williams range refer role Scott Lash sense shift signs simulations social sociology specialists in symbolic structure style sumer symbol specialists symbolic hierarchies symbolic production taste tendencies theory tion Tokugawa tradition tural ture urban Weber Western
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Pagina 7 - ... a prodigious expansion of culture throughout the social realm, to the point at which everything in our social life - from economic value and state power to practices and to the very structure of the psyche itself - can be said to have become 'cultural' in some original and as yet untheorized sense.
Pagina 18 - culture industry' is a targeted rather than an undifferentiated field, and lifestyle practices reflect the divisions of class and culture: . . . knowledge becomes important: knowledge of new goods, their social and cultural value, and how to use them appropriately. This is particularly the case with aspiring groups who adopt a learning mode towards consumption and the cultivation of a lifestyle. It is for groups such as the new middle class, the new working class and the new rich or upper class,...