Consumer Culture Reader

Author: Luo Gang
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Publish Date: 2003-06-01
Features: Consumer culture is a prominent topic in academic research today. Consumer culture and its major manifestation, the massive expansion of objects, indicate a transformation of a new social form, which involves changes in social production methods, lifestyles, and cultural practices. What transformations have been brought about by the expansion of consumption? In this book, we see how consumer culture has disrupted traditional social structures and reshaped human myths through the works of thinkers such as Georg Simmel, Jean Baudrillard, Pierre Bourdieu, and César Ritz. Moreover, we explore how political economy, sociology, anthropology, and semiotics are interconnected in the study of consumer culture.