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Consuming symbolic goods : identity and commitment, values and economics
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Consuming symbolic goods : identity and commitment, values and economics

Author: Wilfred Dolfsma
Publisher: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge 2008.
Edition/Format: Book : English
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Wilfred Dolfsma
ISBN: 9780415456364 0415456363
OCLC Number: 178205874
Description: 155 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Consuming symbolic goods: identity & commitment-Introduction / Wilfred Dolfsma -- Lauding the leisure class: symbolic content and conspicuous consumption / Alan Shipman -- Consumption, identity, and the sociocultural constitution of "preferences": reading women's magazines / Martha A. Starr -- You are what you eat: the social economy of the slow food movement / Bruce Pietrykowski -- Consuming values and contested cultures: a critical analysis of the UK strategy for sustainable consumption and production / Gill Seyfant -- Religious identity and consumption / Metin M. Cosgel and Lanse Minkler -- Paradoxes of modernist consumption-reading fashions / Wilfred Dolfsma -- Are unpreferred preferences weak in symbolic content? / David George -- The gift paradox: complex selves and symbolic good / Elias L. Khalil -- Deriving the Engel curve: Pierre Bourdieu and the social critique of Maslow's hierarchy of needs / Andrew B. Trigg -- The post affluent society / Amitai Etzioni.
Responsibility: edited by Wilfred Dolfsma.

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