Consumer society : critical issues and environmental consequences / by Barry Smart.
| Author/creator | Smart, Barry |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Los Angeles ; London : SAGE, 2010. |
| Description | 1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Consuming: historical and conceptual issues --- Consumer Choice: Rhetoric and Reality --- Cultivating Consumers: Advertising, Marketing and Branding --- Designing Obsolescence, Promoting Consumer Demand --- Globalization and Modern Consumer Culture --- Consequences of Consumerism --- An Unsustainable All-Consuming World --- Consuming Futures I: Business as Usual --- Consuming Futures II: 'Green' and Sustainable Alternatives. |
| Review | "This book will be essential reading for all those interested in, and concerned about, our global culture of consumption including researchers and students in sociology, politics, cultural studies, economics, and social geography."--Jacket. |
| Abstract | Has consumer culture got out of hand? Are the costs of universal access and pollution too great to bear? This comprehensive, lively and informative book will quickly be recognized as a benchmark in the field. It brings together a huge set of resources for thinking about consumer culture and examining its origins and consequences within a global context. Adept in handling a complex range of theories, Consumer Society scrupulously uses examples throughout to inform and enhance understanding. Smart writes with verve and feeling and has produced a book that simultaneously covers and enlarges our understanding of consumer culture. Clear, engaging and original, this book will be important reading for all those interested in our global culture of consumption including students of sociology, social geography and cultural studies. -- Publisher description. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-252 and index. |
| Access restriction | Use copy Restrictions unspecified star |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
| Technical details | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Action note | digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Smart, Barry. Consumer society. Los Angeles : SAGE, 2010 9781847870506 |
| LCCN | 2009934785 |
| ISBN | 9780857026934 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 0857026933 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 9781847870506 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 1847870503 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9781847870490 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 184787049X (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 9781446251300 (ebook) |
| ISBN | 1446251306 (ebook) |
| ISBN | 9781282623927 |
| ISBN | 1282623923 |
| Standard identifier# | 9786612623929 |
| Stock number | 262392 MIL |