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<TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD>Preface to the First Edition</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>viii</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>Preface to the Second Edition</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>xiv</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>1 Modern and Postmodern: Definitions and Interpretations</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>1</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>2 Theories of Consumer Culture</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>13</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>3 Towards a Sociology of Postmodern Culture</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>28</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>4 Cultural Change and Social Practice</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>50</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>5 The Aestheticization of Everyday Life</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>64</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>6 Lifestyle and Consumer Culture</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>81</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>7 City Cultures and Postmodern Lifestyles</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>93</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>8 Consumer Culture and Global Disorder</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>110</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>9 Common Culture or Uncommon Cultures?</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>127</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>10 The Globalization of Diversity</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>142</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>11 Modernity and the Cultural Question</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>147</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>Bibliography</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>182</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>Index</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>198</TD><TD></TD></TR></TABLE>

"If a society is postmodern, it must prioritize the consumption of resources in everyday life. In this view, mass media advertising and market dynamics lead us to a constant search for new fashions, new styles, new sensations, and new experiences. In this volume, Featherstone examines the idea of a postmodern society. He explores the roots of consumer culture, how it is defined and differentiated and the extent to which it represents the arrival of a "postmodern" world"--The publisher

Consumer culture and postmodernism