TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dolfsma,Wilfred
TI  - Consuming symbolic  goods: identity and commitment, values and economics 
SN  - 0415456363 (hbk.)
U1  - 658.8342 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Consumer behavior
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Identity (Psychology)
KW  - Consumption (Economics)
KW  - Psychological aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
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