Identifying Consumption: Subjects and Objects in Consumer Society

by Robert G. Dunn

Overview

Identifying Consumption illustrates how an individual's buying habits are shaped by the dynamics of the consumer marketplace-and thus how consumption and identity inform each other. Robert Dunn brings together the various theories of spending and develops a mode of analysis concentrating on the individual subjectivity of consumption. By doing so, he addresses how we spend and how spending relates to status and lifestyle.

About the Author:
Robert G. Dunn is Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology, California State University, East Bay, and author of Identity Crises: A Social Critique of Postmodernity

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781592138708
Publisher:	Temple University Press
Publication date:	06/15/2008
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements     ix
Introduction     1
Commodities, Objects, the Subject
The Triumph of the Commodity: Theoretical Lineages     21
Culturalizing Consumption     51
The Subjectivity of Consumption     77
Lifestyle, Status, Identity
The Social Relations of Consumption     121
The Identity of Consumption     157
Conclusion     191
Notes     201
References     213
Index     225