1. From consumption to consumer culture -- Consumption as a culture -- Traditional consumption -- Fashion -- Fashioning demand -- Department stores -- Middle-class culture is consumer culture -- After the department store -- References -- 2. The contradictions of consumer culture -- Economics of consumption -- Consumer culture and its contradictions -- Contradictions between consumer culture and capitalist production -- Contradictions between consumer culture and Bourgeois culture -- The consumer as sovereign and as dupe -- Consumer contradictions in politics -- Conclusion -- References -- 3. The consumption of anticonsumption -- Hip consumerism -- New age consumerism -- Cheesy consumerism -- Consumption as an international social problem -- Glocalization -- McDonaldization as heterogeneity and homogeneity -- The contradictions of global consumer culture -- The consumption of anti-Americanization -- McDonaldization in France -- Conclusion -- References -- 4. Stigmatizing inequality in consumer culture -- Race and ethnicity -- Gender : the feminine -- Sexual orientation and camp -- Class -- Style as an individual expression -- Inequality based on age -- The poor -- Conclusion -- References -- 5. Anonymous inequality in global consumer culture -- Starbucks and anonymous inequality -- Coffee and capitalism -- Economic cosmopolitanism -- The latte revolution and fair trade -- Distance between producers and consumers -- Boycott movements -- Conclusion -- References -- 6. People, events, trends, and organizations -- People -- Charlotte Beers (1935- ) -- William Bernbach (1911-1982) -- Aristide Boucicaut (1810-1877) -- Florence Kelley (1859-1932) -- John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) -- Ray Kroc (1902-1984) -- Ralph Nader (1934- ) -- Vance Packard (1914-1996) -- Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) -- Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) -- Aaron Montgomery Ward (1843-1913) -- Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795) -- Helen Rosen Woodward (1882-1960) -- Events, trends, and organizations -- Bourgeois culture -- Civil rights boycotts (1950s and 1960s) -- Diners Club card (1950) -- Great Depression (1929-1939) -- The Peacock Revolution (1968) -- Starbucks -- Volkswagen Beetle -- World Trade Organization (WTO) -- 7. Directory of organizations, associations, and government and international agencies -- Selected organizations based in the United States -- Selected organizations based abroad -- 8. Print and nonprint resources -- Books -- Articles, chapters, and journals -- Videos -- Selected websites.