Knowledge Library 22—Readings on Consumer Culture

Author: Luo Gang, Wang Zhongchen (editors)
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Publish Date: 2003-06-01
Features: Consumer culture is a prominent topic in academic research today. Consumer culture, along with its major manifestation—the massive expansion of objects—signals a transformation in social forms, affecting production methods, lifestyles, and cultural practices. What transformations have been brought about by the expansion of consumption? In this book, we see how the historical footsteps of consumption have disrupted traditional social structures and simultaneously altered human myths, drawing from thinkers such as Georg Simmel, Jean Baudrillard, Pierre Bourdieu, and César Ritz. Beyond this, we also explore how political economy, sociology, anthropology, and semiotics intersect in the study of consumer culture.