The Shopping Experience (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780761950660)

The last decade has witnessed a clear and steady rise of interest in consumer culture. Many commentators now argue that consumption rather than production is the axis of personal identity and meaningful social action - a standpoint that reverses the traditional view that consumption is an incidental, trivial feature in contemporary culture.

This shrewd and probing book seeks to theorize shopping as an autonomous realm. It avoids the reductionist characteristics of economics and marketing. At the same time it avoids the moralizing tone of many contemporary discussions of shopping and consumption. The book uses an interdisciplinary resource base and comparative data to build-up a convincing analysis of the meaning of shopping

Author: Pasi Falk
ISBN-10: 0761950664
ISBN-13: 9780761950660
Publisher: Sage Publications UK
Language: English
Published: 09/01/1997
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.42h x 6.12w x 0.85d