Modernity Consumption
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Modernity And Consumption Theory Politics And The Public In Singapore And Malaysia
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Author : Rappa Antonio Leopold
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Release Date : 2002-03-25
Modernity And Consumption Theory Politics And The Public In Singapore And Malaysia written by Rappa Antonio Leopold and has been published by World Scientific Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-03-25 with Political Science categories.
The Enlightenment theorists involved in the public/private debate exposed the logical fallacies of theology and the philosophical weaknesses of metaphysics but left little room for understanding contemporary modes of consumption. What does it mean to be a consumer in the early 21st century? Do modern markets provide real choices for consumers in neoliberal capitalist democracies? Or are consumers ironically slaves to their own patterns of consumption? Rejecting Habermas' conceptualizations in The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (1991), Rappa offers an examination of modernity and consumption with a non-Marxist, modernity-Resistance-theoretical frame (mRf). He argues that late modernity — the ethos, experience, and consciousness of global and technological transformation today — is not about the fusion of “public and private” spaces. Rather, modernity and consumption involves the deep penetration of private space by public space to the extent that private space becomes dependent, conditional, and decrepit. The “Private” has become contingent on the “Public”. Decisions about what to consume no longer reflect the mindful choices of private, interest-seeking, and wealth-maximizing individuals but reveal a new kind of public control through foundational images of success, failure, horror, violence, and hope.
Modernity Consumption
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Author : Antonio L. Rappa
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2002
Modernity Consumption written by Antonio L. Rappa and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Political Science categories.
Offers an examination of modernity and consumption with a non-Marxist, modernity-Resistance-theoretical frame (mRf).
Consumer Culture And Modernity
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Author : Don Slater
language : en
Publisher: Polity
Release Date : 1999-02-03
Consumer Culture And Modernity written by Don Slater and has been published by Polity this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-02-03 with Social Science categories.
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the issues, concepts and theories through which people have tried to understand consumer culture throughout the modern period, and puts the current state of thinking into a broader context. Thematically organized, the book shows how the central aspects of consumer culture - such as needs, choice, identity, status, alienation, objects, culture - have been debated within modern theories, from those of earlier thinkers such as Marx and Simmel to contemporary forms of post-structuralism and postmodernism. This approach introduces consumer culture as a subject which - far from being of narrow or recent interest - is intimately tied to the central issues of modern times and modern social thought. With its reviews of major theorists set within a full account of the development of the subject, this book should be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students in the many disciplines which now study consumer culture, including communications and cultural studies, anthropology and history.
Place Modernity And The Consumer S World
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Author : Robert David Sack
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Place Modernity And The Consumer S World written by Robert David Sack and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Business & Economics categories.
To create successful consumer places, a retail store may be designed to look like the Australian outback. A museum may have the appearance of a department store. Travel tours may wend through "native" communities that stage "traditional" behavior. Umberto Eco calls this "authentication", or "instances where the American imagination demands the real thing and, to attain it, must fabricate the absolute fake". In Place, Modernity, and the Consumer's World, geographer Robert Sack explores this phenomenon along with other problems of modernity, mass consumption, and advertising to present a dynamic picture of how space and place define the world of the consumer. He begins with the geographical premise that space and place provide a means by which we make sense of the world and through which we act. He expands this premise to form a relational framework for geographical analysis which is used to show how space is embedded in the realms of meaning, nature, and social relations. He proceeds to demonstrate how places are defined by the ways in which they bring together and transform these three realms. Sack then turns to the consumer's world, the shopping malls, department stores, theme parks, and resorts that form "the everyday landscape of mass consumption". He looks at how these places - together with the advertising that idealizes the way products are supposed to create places and contexts - are constructed and how they intentionally alter aspects of reality in such a way as to create those disorienting qualities associated with "postmodernism". Finally, Sack considers place as both an empirical and a moral concept, and establishes a geographical basis for making moral judgments about it.Using that framework, he finds that places of consumption impair judgment because they disguise the relationships between meaning, nature, and social relations.
Modernity Consumption
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Author : Antonio L. Rappa
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2002
Modernity Consumption written by Antonio L. Rappa and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Political Science categories.
Offers an examination of modernity and consumption with a non-Marxist, modernity-Resistance-theoretical frame (mRf).
Scenes Of Parisian Modernity
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Author : H. Hahn
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2009-11-23
Scenes Of Parisian Modernity written by H. Hahn and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-23 with History categories.
Integrating the history of Paris with the history of consumption, the press, publicity, advertising and spectacle, this book traces the evolution of the urban core districts of consumption and explores elements of consumer culture such as the print media, publishing, retail techniques, tourism, city marketing, fashion, illustrated posters and Montmartre culture in the nineteenth century. Hahn emphasizes the tension between art and industry and between culture and commerce, a dynamic that significantly marked urban commercial modernity that spread new imaginary about consumption. She argues that Parisian consumer culture arose earlier than generally thought, and explores the intense commercialization Paris underwent.
Understanding Youth In Late Modernity
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Author : France, Alan
language : en
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Release Date : 2007-04-01
Understanding Youth In Late Modernity written by France, Alan and has been published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04-01 with Social Science categories.
"Understanding Youth in Late Modernity is a highly readable book which lends itself bothas a solid introduction and a reference point to the historical developments and theoreticaldebates taking place within the discipline of youth studies. This book provides a highly accessible text for anybody interested in the subject of youth and its changing role in late modernity. I thoroughly recommend it." Journal of Contemporary European Studies This illuminating new book embeds our understanding of the youth question within a historical context. It shows how the ideas of past political action, in conjunction with the diverse paradigms of social science disciplines, have shaped modern conceptions of the youth question. This relationship between the political and the academic is then explored through a detailed examination of contemporary debates about youth, in areas such as; transitions, education, crime policy and criminology, consumption and youth culture. From this analysis the book is able to show how the youth question in late modernity is being shaped. This important text includes: A historical overview of the making of modern youth, identifying major changes that took place over three centuries Examples of how political and academic responses construct youth as a social problem An evaluation of the impact of social change in late modernity on our understanding of the youth question and the everyday lives of the young. The book concludes by suggesting that in contemporary understandings of the youth question significant differences exist between the political and the academic. Major challenges exist if this gap is to be addressed and a new public social science needs to emerge that reconstitutes debates about youth within a form of communicative democracy. Understanding Youth in Late Modernity is key reading for students and academics interested in the historical conception of the youth problem, its evolution throughout modernity and endeavours to find a solution.
Modernity An Ethnographic Approach
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Author : Daniel Miller
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-08-19
Modernity An Ethnographic Approach written by Daniel Miller and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-19 with Social Science categories.
From cultural studies, sociology, media studies, gender studies and elsewhere there have been a spate of books recently which have attempted to characterize the state of modernity. Many of these have also argued that what is required is an ethnographic work to determine how far these supposed trends actually apply to a given population. This book explicitly accepts this challenge and, in so doing, demonstrates the potential of modern anthropology studies. It starts by summarizing some debates on modernity and then argues that the Caribbean island of Trinidad is particularly apt for such a study given the origins of its population in slavery and indentured labour, both forms of extreme social rupture. The particular focus of this book is on mass consumption and the way goods and imported images such as soap opera have been used to express and develop a number of key contradictions of modernity. It will be of interest to anthropologists looking for a new potential for the discipline, as well as students in other fields who will be interested in the new contribution of anthropology to their debates.
Modernity And The Second Hand Trade
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Author : J. Stobart
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2010-11-30
Modernity And The Second Hand Trade written by J. Stobart and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-30 with History categories.
Bringing together the latest research on the neglected area of second-hand exchange and consumption, this book offers fresh insights into the buying and selling of used goods in western-Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and seeks to re-examine and redefine the relationship between modernity and the second-hand trade.
Scenes Of Parisian Modernity
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Author : H. Hahn
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 2010-01-13
Scenes Of Parisian Modernity written by H. Hahn and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-13 with History categories.
This book explores the commercial modernity of Parisian urban culture and consumer culture in the 19th century.