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Consumer Culture and Modernity
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Consumer Culture and Modernity Papeback - - 1st Edition

by Don Slater

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Polity Press , pp. 240 . Papeback. New.
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  • Title Consumer Culture and Modernity
  • Author Don Slater
  • Binding Papeback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition New
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Polity Press , United Kingdom
  • Date pp. 240
  • Features Bibliography
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 6362390
  • ISBN 9780745603049 / 0745603041
  • Weight 0.82 lbs (0.37 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.02 x 6.05 x 0.76 in (22.91 x 15.37 x 1.93 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Culture - History, Consumption (Economics) - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96044027
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.309

From the rear cover

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the issues, concepts and theories through which people have tried to understand consumer culture throughout the modern period, and puts the current state of thinking into a broader context.


Thematically organized, the book shows how the central aspects of consumer culture - such as needs, choice, identity, status, alienation, objects, culture - have been debated within modern theories, from those of earlier thinkers such as Marx and Simmel to contemporary forms of post-structuralism and postmodernism. This approach introduces consumer culture as a subject which - far from being of narrow or recent interest - is intimately tied to the central issues of modern times and modern social thought.


With its reviews of major theorists set within a full account of the development of the subject, this book should be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students in the many disciplines which now study consumer culture, including communications and cultural studies, anthropology and history.

About the author

Don Slater is Senior Lecturer and Fran Tonkiss is Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London.