Consumer Culture and Personal Finance Money Goes to Market

by Botterill, Jacqueline

• ISBN13: 9780230008670
• ISBN10: 0230008674
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-02-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This is an ideal resource for Postgraduate Students and Researchers in the Sociology and Geography of Financial Markets, Consumer Culture, Family Sociology, and Economics (social economy of households).

Author Biography

JACQUELINE BOTTERILL is Lecturer at the University of East London, UK. She teaches qualitative research methods, consumer studies, media, promotion and advertising at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She is co-author of The Dynamics of Advertising and Social Communication in Advertising: Consumption in the Mediated Marketplace.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations and Table	p. vi
Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Prudent Investment and Modest Consumption	p. 23
Women, Home, Consumption, Lending & Ill Repute	p. 44
Hire Purchase, Home Furnishings, and the Cult of Domesticity	p. 75
Gentlemanly Bankers Adopt a New Set of Manners	p. 100
Big Bang Banking	p. 132
The Press Takes on Personal Debt	p. 157
Three Personal Finance Discourses	p. 170
Personal Financial Identities in Psychology and Popular Literature	p. 197
Conclusion	p. 216
Bibliography	p. 225
Index	p. 246
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