Ordinary consumption
Title:
Ordinary consumption
Author:
Gronow, Jukka.
ISBN:
9780415270373
Publication Information:
London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.
Physical Description:
viii, 257 p. ; 24 cm.
Series:
Studies in consumption and markets
Series Title:
Studies in consumption and markets
General Note:
"The essays in this book originate from several conferences held under the auspices of the European and British sociological assoc[i]ations between 1996 and 1998"--Introd.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1 -- Jukka Gronow and Alan Warde -- 1 Sociology, Consumption and Routine 9 -- Kaj Ilmonen -- 2 Routinisation or Reflexivity? Consumers and Normative Claims for Environmental Consideration 25 -- Bente Halkier -- 3 Ordinary Consumption and Extraordinary Relationships: Utilities and their Users 45 -- Elizabeth Shove and Heather Chappells -- 4 Working at Consumption: The Second Home and Daily Life 59 -- Davina Chaplin -- 5 Extra-ordinary and Ordinary Consumption: Making Sense of Acquisition in Modern Taiwan 75 -- Shou-Cheng Lai -- 6 Tamed Hedonism: Choice, Desires and Deviant Pleasures 93 -- Roberta Sassatelli -- 7 Mobile Communication as a Way of Urban Life 107 -- Pasi Mdenpiii -- 8 Ordinary Consumption and Personal Identity: Radio and the Middle Classes in the North West of England 125 -- Brian Longhurst, Gaynor Bagnall and Mike Savage -- 9 By Car: Carrying Modern Society 143 -- Tim Dant and Peter J. Martin -- 10 Ordinary and Distinctive Consumption; or a Kitchen is a Kitchen is a Kitchen 159 -- Dale Southerton -- 11 The Role of States in the Creation of Consumption Norms 179 -- Terhi-Anna Wilska -- 12 Smart Life, Version 3.0: Representations of Everyday Life in Future Studies 199 -- Katja Oksanen-Sireld and Mika Pantzar -- 13 Epilogue: Conventional Consumption 219 -- Jukka Gronow and Alan Warde.
Electronic Access:
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