We analyze the importance of the educated class for the persistence of mass consumption societies in an economy with a hierarchy of needs.Through the demand for managerial talent (which is needed to operate advanced industrial technologies), the latter generate their own demand for skills. In...

We analyze the importance of the educated class for the persistence of mass consumption societies in an economy with a hierarchy of needs.Through the demand for managerial talent (which is needed to operate advanced industrial technologies), the latter generate their own demand for skills. In...

This paper examines the potential for automation and artificial intelligence (AI) to induce a broader economic decline, impacting not only labor but also the owners of capital and advanced technology. While automation has traditionally favored skilled over unskilled workers, recent advancements...

Part 1: Marketing and Consumption Ethics 1. Marketing Ethics and Ethical Consumers Athanasia Daskalopoulou, Natalia Yannopoulou 1a. Case Study: Prepping Mothers Katy Kerrane 2. The Politics of Consumption and Consumer Activism Athanasia Daskalopoulou, Natalia Yannopoulou 2a. Case Study: Global...

"Democratizing Luxury explores the interplay between advertising and consumption in modern Japan by investigating how Japanese companies at key historical moments assigned value, or "luxury," to mass-produced products as an important business model. Japanese name-brand luxury evolved alongside a...

Neid, Völlerei, Habgier, Wollust, Hochmut, Trägheit und Zorn - die sogenannten sieben Todsünden sind weitgehend bekannt und noch weiter verbreitet. Sie beschreiben sieben Motive und Verhaltensweisen, die viele Menschen im Alltag begleiten, aber zugleich als Vergehen moralisch gebrandmarkt...

With a novel quality theory of consumption which treats opulence and self-restraint in consumption styles symmetrically, Ernst Mohr shows how social distance and proximity are communicated by consumption and produced by communication. He positions fringe styles with those of the mainstream in an...

The accepted view among psychologists and economists alike is that economic well-being has a statistically significant but only weak effect on happiness/subjective well-being (SWB). This view is based almost entirely on weak relationships with household income. The paper uses household economic...

Consuming Crisis is a crucial account of how consumer culture capitalized on Coronavirus (COVID-19). Sobande explores how brands claim to care while they encourage people to 'keep calm and consume'. This critical analysis of the power and politics of marketing examines an eclectic mix of...

This book traces the afterlives of things. Out of the rubble of World War II and the Holocaust, the Federal Republic of Germany emerged, and with it a foundational myth of the “economic miracle.” In this narrative, a new mass consumer society based on the production, export, and consumption...

"This critical introductory text explores the role of advertising in contemporary culture and its connections to larger economic, social and political forces. Written in an engaging and accessible style and incorporating a wide range of examples from around the world, the chapters introduce the...

Mit einer grundlegend neuen Qualitätstheorie des Konsums zeigt Ernst Mohr: Distanz und Nähe werden im Sozialen konsumierend kommuniziert und durch Kommunikation produziert. Er positioniert Stile postmoderner Gruppen – wie bspw. Hip-Hop, Punk, Skinhead, Hipster, Pop – mit jenen des...

Vor knapp dreißig Jahren ist die Metapher „the dark sides of consumer behavior“ in die Konsumentenverhaltensforschung eingeführt worden. So setzen sich Konsumenten mit ihrem Verhalten manchmal wissend ins Unrecht, betrachten ihre Vergehen aber als "smarte Kavaliersdelikte". Zudem erliegen...

Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- Vorwort -- Teil 1: Kultur der Dissimilarität -- Kapitel 1. Das Material -- Kapitel 2. Der Stil -- Kapitel 3. Nah- und Fernsicht -- Teil 2: Der produktive Konsument -- Einleitung -- Kapitel 4. In der Sortierstation der Kultur -- Kapitel 5. Soziales Wollen und kulturelles...

Der Wertschöpfungszuwachs des globalen Konsums wird zunehmend von knappen, begehrten Imaginationsprodukten gespeist. Entsprechend wächst die Bedeutung der Rolle derjenigen Zuschauer, die an der Verwertung solcher Imaginationsprodukte teilnehmen; deshalb das gestiegene Interesse an der...

This book presents studies of ways in which people and organizations deal with the overflow of information, goods, or choices. The contributors explore two main themes. The first is the emergence of overflows: What is defined as overflow? Here the notion of framing as coined by Michel Callon has...

This book presents studies of ways in which people and organizations deal with the overflow of information, goods, or choices. The contributors explore two main themes. The first is the emergence of overflows: What is defined as overflow? Here the notion of framing as coined by Michel Callon has...

Die Forschung zum Thema Konsum hat in den letzten Jahren ihren Fokus erweitert. Aktuelle soziologische Studien wiederum weisen vorwiegend zwei raumzeitliche und thematische Foki auf. Ersterer beleuchtet die sozialen und politischen Veränderungen in den nordamerikanischen und europäischen...

Wohin entwickelt sich die Konsumgesellschaft? Wie ändern sich die Einstellungen und Verhaltensweisen der Verbraucherinnen und Verbraucher? Zeichnet sich ein Wandel vom industriellen Massenkonsum zum individualisierten Digitalkonsum ab? Diesen Fragen widmete sich die dritte Jahrestagung des...

The book provides an overview of socially responsible consumption and marketing, as well as a collection of teaching cases that discuss and emphasize how 21st-century organizations, both for-profit and non-profit, are addressing socially responsible consumers and meeting their changing needs...

« L’année 2021 a marqué les 50 ans de l’entrée en vigueur, au Québec, de la Loi sur la protection du consommateur. Cet ouvrage présente un bilan du mouvement consumériste au Québec, traite des enjeux qui caractérisent le rapport de pouvoir entre organisations et consommateurs et...

The present study intends to develop a framework for a new consumption theory that is pertinent to the economy in the age of artificial intelligence and robots. In the new framework, besides the monetary budget constraint, there are also temporal, spatial and physiological constraints on an...

"Antisemitic stereotypes of Jews as capitalists have hindered research into the economic dimension of the Jewish past. The figure of the Jew as trader and financier dominated the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. But the economy has been central to Jewish life and the Jewish image in the world;...

This collection of high quality, largely previously published essays, analyses a range of controversies in the field of the sociology of culture and consumption. Campbell made a major contribution to the development of this field and he has a clear and coherent theoretical position which he...

"A higher education History primary source textbook that embraces an argument based model for teaching history. It is part of the Debating American History series, and covers mass consumer culture in the 1920s."

"Time for Things seeks an answer to the question of why, in mature industrial capitalist societies, increasing productivity has tended to get used to increase output and consumption as opposed to reducing the burden of work. Put simply, why do we live in a world so full of goods, many of which...