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- ISBN
- 9780745640020
- Book Title
- Consuming Life
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Polity Press
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.5in
- Genre
- Business & Economics, Social Science
- Topic
- Consumer Behavior, Sociology / General
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- Item Weight
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- Number of Pages
- 168 Pages
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With the advent of liquid modernity, the society of producers is transformed into a society of consumers. In this new consumer society, individuals become simultaneously the promoters of commodities and the commodities they promote. They are, at one and the same time, the merchandise and the marketer, the goods and the travelling salespeople. They all inhabit the same social space that is customarily described by the term the market. The test they need to pass in order to acquire the social prizes they covet requires them to recast themselves as products capable of drawing attention to themselves. This subtle and pervasive transformation of consumers into commodities is the most important feature of the society of consumers. It is the hidden truth, the deepest and most closely guarded secret, of the consumer society in which we now live. In this new book Zygmunt Bauman examines the impact of consumerist attitudes and patterns of conduct on various apparently unconnected aspects of social life politics and democracy, social divisions and stratification, communities and partnerships, identity building, the production and use of knowledge, and value preferences. The invasion and colonization of the web of human relations by the worldviews and behavioural patterns inspired and shaped by commodity markets, and the sources of resentment, dissent and occasional resistance to the occupying forces, are the central themes of this brilliant new book by one of the worlds most original and insightful social thinkers.
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Publisher
Polity Press
ISBN-10
0745640028
ISBN-13
9780745640020
eBay Product ID (ePID)
57282017
Product Key Features
Book Title
Consuming Life
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Consumer Behavior, Sociology / General
Publication Year
2007
Genre
Business & Economics, Social Science
Number of Pages
168 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
5.9in
Item Weight
7.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hc79.C6b35 2007
Reviews
"[An] engaged and important antidote to the platitudes of the times ... encourages the very human virtues [Bauman seeks] to recover from a world otherwise only concerned with the easy, the simple and the fast."Keith Tester, Times Higher Education Supplement, "[An] engaged and important antidote to the platitudes of the times ... encourages the very human virtues [Bauman seeks] to recover from a world otherwise only concerned with the easy, the simple and the fast." Times Higher Education "A masterful account and critique of consumerism and the social consequences of its ubiquity ... another worthy contribution to the urgent task of social critique amid unprecedented and unfettered consumerism." Sociology "A timely intervention in helping sociologists think about what the sociology of consumption has achieved." Sociological Review " Consuming Life provides a fiery, stimulating and sharp diagnosis, with much to tell us about where and who we are in a market-led society." Commentary "Bauman's message calls for awakening from the slumber we are in." Essays in Philosophy
Table of Content
Introduction Or, the most closely guarded secret of the society of consumers 1 1 Consumerism versus Consumption 25 2 Society of Consumers 52 3 Consumerist Culture 82 4 Collateral Casualties of Consumerism 117 Notes 151 Index 158
Copyright Date
2007
Lccn
2007-299670
Dewey Decimal
339.47
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
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