£148.84

Routledge - Consumer Society and the Post-modern City

Name: Routledge - Consumer Society and the Post-modern City
Brand: Routledge
Price: 140.4 GBP
Availability: InStock

Business & Economic History

Price History & Forecast

Last 41 days • 41 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 41 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £149 (39 days, 95.1%)

Price range: £140 - £149

Price levels: 2 different prices over 41 days

Description

Explore the deep connections between consumer culture and urban environments in Consumer Society and the Post-modern City. Published by Routledge, this book examines how our lives as consumers change the very meaning of the cities we live in. By looking at the ideas of major theorists like Jean Baudrillard and Zygmunt Bauman, the text provides a clear look at how consumerism has become a central part of social life. This work helps readers understand the ways consumption reshapes social structures. It looks at how social inequalities are increasingly defined by consumption patterns and how these forces influence the development of post-modern society. It is an essential read for anyone interested in how economic habits and urban spaces interact in the modern world.

Key Features

Examines the influence of major theorists Jean Baudrillard and Zygmunt Bauman on modern social thought.

Analyzes how consumerism acts as a central facet of daily social life in post-modern societies.

Investigates the ways in which consumption patterns are used to structure social inequalities.

Assesses the impact of consumer culture on the changing nature and meaning of the city.

Provides a detailed look at the development of consumerism within the post-modern urban landscape.

Product Specifications

Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 041520514X
Category: Books > Subjects > Business, Finance & Law > Biographies & Histories > Business & Economic History
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 24 April 2003
Listed Since: 09 February 2007

Barcode

No barcode data available

Routledge - Consumer Society and the Post-modern City

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Key Features

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Routledge Cities and Consumption - Urbanism and Sociology Book

Being Human in a Consumer Society (Classical and Contemporary Social Theory)

Routledge Social Change and Post-consumer Society Book

The City: Post-Modernity (Sage Benchmarks in Culture and Society)

Spaces for Consumption: Pleasure and Placelessness in the Post-Industrial City

Routledge Consuming People - Consumer Research Book

Urban World/Global City

Routledge: From the Margins to the Centre Book

Spaces for Consumption

Ethical Consumption: A Critical Introduction

Urban Constellations: Spaces of Cultural Regeneration in Post-Industrial Britain (Theory, Technology and Society)

Consumption and Generational Change: The Rise of Consumer Lifestyles

Globalising Everyday Consumption in India: History and Ethnography (Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series)

Consumer Culture and Postmodernism (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)

Digitalizing Consumption: How devices shape consumer culture (Routledge Interpretive Marketing Research)

Routledge - Protest and Resistance in the Tourist City Book

Consuming Behaviours: Identity, Politics and Pleasure in Twentieth-Century Britain

The Saturated Society: Governing Risk & Lifestyles in Consumer Culture

Routledge Consuming Cities - Urban Environment Book

The Contemporary Bauman

Lifestyle Shopping: The Subject of Consumption (International Library of Sociology)

Routledge Beyond Bauman: Critical Engagements and Social Theory

Urban Constellations: Spaces of Cultural Regeneration in Post-Industrial Britain

Routledge Urban Change and Citizenship in Times of Crisis Vol 1