Consumption and Everyday Life

Dr Mark Paterson is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. His research blog is at http://sensory-motor.com/.

Introduction: We are all Consumers 1. How We Became Consumers: Theories of Consumption 2. You Are What You Buy? Consumption and Identity 3. Globalization and McDisneyfication: Producing the Global Consumer 4. Bodyshopping: The Commodification of Experience and Sensation 5. Nature, Inc. 6. The ‘Knowing’ Consumer: The Science of Shopping and the Arts of Appropriation 7. Cathedrals, Palaces, and Paradises: Modernity and the Spaces of Consumption 8. Malls as Everyday Sites of Spectacle and Enchantment 9. ‘Just Do It’: The Poetics and Politics of Brands and Logos 10. The Ethics of Consumption Bibliography Key Terms Questions for Discussion