Consuming symbolic goods: identity and commitment, values and economics / edited by Wilfred Dolfsma.
Contributor(s): Dolfsma, Wilfred.
Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2008Description: 155 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0415456363 (hbk.); 9780415456364 (hbk.).Subject(s): Consumer behavior -- Social aspects | Identity (Psychology) | Consumption (Economics) -- Psychological aspects | Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspectsDDC classification: 658.8342Item type | Current location | Shelf location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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Main Collection | Taylor's Library-TU |
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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