The Oxford handbook of consumption

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The Oxford handbook of consumption

edited by Frederick F. Wherry and Ian Woodward

Oxford University Press, c2019

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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The Oxford Handbook of Consumption consolidates the most innovative recent work conducted by social scientists in the field of consumption studies and identifies some of the most fruitful lines of inquiry for future research. It begins by embedding marketing in its global history, enmeshed in various political, economic, and social sites. From this embedded perspective, the book branches out to examine the rise of consumer culture theory among consumer researchers and parallel innovative developments in sociology and anthropology, with scholarship analyzing the roles that identity, social networks, organizational dynamics, institutions, market devices, materiality, and cultural meanings play across a wide variety of applications, including, but not limited to, brands and branding, the sharing economy, tastes and preferences, credit and credit scoring, consumer surveillance, race and ethnicity, status, family life, well-being, environmental sustainability, social movements, and social inequality. The volume is unique in the attention it gives to consumer research on inequality and the focus it has on consumer credit scores and consumer behaviors that shape life chances. The volume includes essays by many of the key researchers in the field, some of whom have only recently, if at all, crossed the disciplinary lines that this volume has enabled. The contributors have tried to address several key questions: What motivates consumption and what does it mean to be a consumer? What social, technical, and cultural systems integrate and give character to contemporary consumption? What actors, institutions, and understandings organize and govern consumption? And what are the social uses and effects of consumption?

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Introduction: Situating Consumers and Consumption Frederick F. Wherry and Ian Woodward Part I: Key Contemporary Themes 1. The Social Embeddedness of Marketing Stefan Schwarzkopf 2. The Sharing Economy Juliet B. Schor and Mehmet Cansoy 3. Prosumption: Contemporary Capitalism and the "New" Prosumer George Ritzer 4. Consumer Culture Theory Eric J. Arnould and Craig J. Thompson 5. A Sociological Critique and Reformulation of Brands Thomas C. O'Guinn, Albert M. Muniz, Jr., and Erika Paulson 6. Relational Work and Consumption Nina Bandelj and Christopher W. Gibson 7. Meaningful Objects and Consumption Sophie Woodward 8. Bourdieu, Distinction, and Aesthetic Consumption Omar Lizardo Part II: Organizing Consumption 9. Taste, Legitimacy, and the Organization of Consumption Jennifer Smith Maguire 10. Cultural Markets and Consecration Marc Verboord 11. Emotions in Consumer Studies Eva Illouz and Yaara Benger Alaluf 12. Young People and Consumption: The Changing Nature of Youth Consumption in an Era of Uncertainty and Digital Experience Konstantinos Theodoridis and Steven Miles 13. Consumption as Production: Data and the Reproduction of Capitalist Relations Ulises A. Mejias and Nick Couldry Part III: Consumer Transactions, Relations, and Devices 14. Household Finances and Credit Visibility Frederick F. Wherry 15. The Cultivation of Market Behaviors and Economic Decisions: Calculation, Qualculation, and Calqulation Revisited Franck Cochoy 16. Consumer Transactions: Consumer Banking Zsuzsanna Vargha 17. Consumer Credit Surveillance Alya Guseva and Akos Rona-Tas Part IV: Inequality and Stratification 18. Omnivorousness, Distinction, or Both? Josee Johnston, Shyon Baumann, and Merin Oleschuk 19. The Development of Ethnoracial Market Segments: Lessons from the US Latino Media Market G. Cristina Mora 20. Race and Consumer Inequality Geraldine Rosa Henderson and Kathy Zhang 21. Fashion and Its Gendered Agendas Ashley Mears 22. Gentrification and Urban Inequality Richard E. Ocejo 23. Branding National Identity in an Unequal World Melissa Aronczyk Part V: Practices, Performances, and Identities 24. Subcultures and Consumption John W. Schouten 25. Taste, Sensation, and Skill and Skill in the Sociology of Consumption David Wright 26. Food Tastes Jennifer A. Jordan 27. Gender as a Critical Perspective in Marketing Practice Susan Dobscha and Gry Hongsmark-Knudsen 28. Consumer Cities, Scenes, and Ethnic restaurants Daniel Silver and Terry Nichols Clark Part VI: Reformulating Markets 29. Ethical Consumption Keith Brown 30. Affluence, Anti-Consumerism, and the Politics of Consumption Kim Humphery 31. Linking Environmental Sustainability and Consumption Amanda M. Dewey and Dana R. Fisher

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