Consuming symbolic  goods:  identity and commitment, values and economics / 
edited by Wilfred Dolfsma. 
 - New York :  Routledge,  2008 
 - 155 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Consuming symbolic goods: identity & commitment- Introduction / Wilfred Dolfsma -- Lauding the leisure class: symbolic content and conspicuous consumption / Alan Shipman -- Consumption, identity, and the sociocultural constitution of "preferences": reading women's magazines / Martha A. Starr -- You are what you eat: the social economy of the slow food movement / Bruce Pietrykowski -- Consuming values and contested cultures: a critical analysis of the UK strategy for sustainable consumption and production / Gill Seyfant -- Religious identity and consumption / Metin M. Gosgel and Lanse Minkler -- Paradoxes of modernist consumption-reading fashions / Wilfred Dolfsma -- Are unpreferred preferences weak in symbolic content? / David George -- The gift paradox:  complex selves and symbolic good / Elias L. Khalil -- Deriving the Engel curve: Pierre Bourdieu and the social critique of Maslow's hierarchy of needs / Andrew B. Trigg -- The post affluent society / Amitai Etzioni 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0415456363 (hbk.) 9780415456364 (hbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Consumer behavior--Social aspects.<br/>Identity (Psychology)<br/>Consumption (Economics)--Psychological aspects.<br/>Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>658.8342  / CON