| Description |
vi, 321 pages ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Sociological review monograph series ; 44 |
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Sociological review monograph ; 44
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| Contents |
Introduction: Consumption Matters / Stephen Edgell and Kevin Hetherington -- Becoming a consumer of care: developing a sociological account of the 'new community care' / John Baldock and Clare Ungerson -- Production, disbursement and consumption: the modes and modalities of goods and services / Keith Dowding and Patrick Dunleavy -- Public nightmares and communitarian dreams: the crisis of the social in social welfare / John Clarke -- Producing consumption: women and the making of credit markets / Janet Ford and Karen Rowlingson -- Consumption and class analysis / Rosemary Crompton -- The enigma of Christmas: symbolic violence, compliant subjects and the flow of English kinship / Pnina Werbner -- Consuming schooling: choice, commodity, gift and systems of exchange / Pat Allatt -- Expelling future threats: some observations on the magical world of vitamins / Pasi Falk -- 'Bastard' chicken or ghormeh-sabzi?: Iranian women guarding the health of the migrant family / Lynn Harbottle |
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Consuming the past / Gaynor Bagnall -- The consumption view of self: extension, exchange and identity / Rolland Munro -- Social class, consumption and the influence of Bourdieu: some critical issues / Brian Longhurst and Mike Savage -- Afterword: the future of the sociology of consumption / Alan Warde |
| Summary |
This up-to-date selection of papers considers some of the key changes in the patterning and social significance of consumption It is based on a recent series of seminars involving sociologists, social anthropologists and policy researchers |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Sociological review monograph no:44 0081-1769 |
| Subject |
Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects.
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| Author |
Edgell, Stephen.
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Hetherington, Kevin.
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Warde, Alan.
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| LC no. |
96045997 |
| ISBN |
0631203508 (alk. paper) |
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