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9780415456364

Consuming Symbolic Goods: Identity and Commitment, Values and Economics

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415456364

  • ISBN10:

    0415456363

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-01-09
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

The phenomenon of consumption has increasingly drawn attention from economists. While the '¬Üsole purpose of production is consumption'¬", as Adam Smith has claimed, economists have up to recently generally ignored the topic. This book brings together a range of different perspectives on the topic of consumption that will finally shed the necessary light on a largely neglected theme, such as Why is the consumption of symbolic goods different than that of goods that are not constitutive of individuals'¬" identity? How does the consumption of symbolic goods affect social processes and economic phenomena? Will taking consumption (of symbolic goods) seriously impact economics itself? The book discusses these issues theoretically, and, through analyses of such cases as food, religion, fashion, empirically as well. It also discusses the possible role in the future of consumption. This book was previously published as a special issue of Review of Social Economy

Table of Contents

Consuming Symbolic Goods: Identity & Commitment - Introductionp. 1
Lauding the Leisure Class: Symbolic Content and Conspicuous Consumptionp. 3
Consumption, Identity, and the Sociocultural Constitution of "Preferences": Reading Women's Magazinesp. 17
You Are What You Eat: The Social Economy of the Slow Food Movementp. 33
Consuming Values and Contested Cultures: A Critical Analysis of the UK Strategy for Sustainable Consumption and Productionp. 49
Religious Identity and Consumptionp. 65
Paradoxes of Modernist Consumption - Reading Fashionsp. 77
Are Unpreferred Preferences Weak in Symbolic Content?p. 91
The Gift Paradox: Complex Selves and Symbolic Goodp. 105
Deriving the Engel Curve: Pierre Bourdieu and the Social Critique of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needsp. 119
The Post Affluent Societyp. 133
Contributorsp. 147
Indexp. 151
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