• ISBN13: 9781032195995
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Sociology and Anthropology
• Publisher: T&F
• Publisher Imprint: Routledge
• Publication Date: December 10, 2023
• Pages: 384
• Original Price: GBP 35.99
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 600 grams

With an emphasis on everyday life, this respected text offers a lively and perceptive account of the key theories and ideas which dominate the field of consumption and consumer culture. This third revised and expanded edition is a major update of the text of the second edition, adding new chapters on youth culture and consumption, retail psychology, gender and consumption, the globalization of food, and digital consumption and platform capitalism.

Theoretical perspectives are introduced such as theories of practice, critical theory, semiotics, and psychoanalysis. Examples from film, literature, and television are used to illustrate concepts and trends in consumption, and a wide range of engaging and up-to-date case studies of consumption are employed throughout. Historical context is provided to help the reader understand how we became consumers in the first place. Written by an experienced teacher, the book offers an accessible and thought-provoking introduction to the concept of consumption for students in sociology, cultural studies, human geography, history, anthropology, and social psychology.

Mark Paterson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. Along with his interest in consumption, his research focuses on the body and the senses, particularly in relation to new technologies. He is the author of The Senses of Touch: Haptics, Affects and Technologies (Routledge, 2007), Seeing with the Hands: Blindness, Vision and Touch After Descartes (2016), and How We Became Sensorimotor: Movement, Measurement, Sensation (2021), as well as numerous journal articles. He is also co-editor of Touching Place, Spacing Touch (Routledge, 2012) and is on the editorial board of the journals Emotion, Space & Society, Multimodality and Society, and The Senses and Society.