{"product_id":"consuming-symbolic-goods-9780415456364","title":"Consuming Symbolic Goods","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe phenomenon of consumption has increasingly drawn attention from economists. While the sole purpose of production is consumption', as Adam Smith has claimed, economists have up to recently generally ignored the topic. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book brings together a range of different perspectives on the topic of consumption that will finally shed the necessary light on a largely neglected theme, such as\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy is the consumption of symbolic goods different than that of goods that are not constitutive of individuals' identity? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow does the consumption of symbolic goods affect social processes and economic phenomena? \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWill taking consumption (of symbolic goods) seriously impact economics itself?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book discusses these issues theoretically, and, through analyses of such cases as food, religion, fashion, empirically as well. It also discusses the possible role in the future of consumption.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book was previously published as a special issue of \u003cem\u003eRe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eConsuming Symbolic Goods: Identity and Commitment - Introduction \u003cem\u003eWilfred Dolfsma. \u003c\/em\u003eLauding the Leisure Class: Symbolic Content and Conspicuous Consumption \u003cem\u003eAlan Shipman. \u003c\/em\u003eConsumption, Identity, and the Sociocultural Constitution of 'Preferences': Reading Women's Magazines \u003cem\u003eMartha A. Star. \u003c\/em\u003eYou Are What You Eat: The Social Economy of the Slow Food Movement \u003cem\u003eBruce Pietrykowski. \u003c\/em\u003eConsuming Values and Contested Cultures: A Critical Analysis of the UK Strategy for Sustainable Consumption and Production \u003cem\u003eGill Seyfang. \u003c\/em\u003eReligious Identity and Consumption \u003cem\u003eMetin M. Cogel and Lanse Minkler. \u003c\/em\u003eParadoxes of Modernist Consumption: Reading Fashions \u003cem\u003eWilfred Dolfsma. \u003c\/em\u003eAre Unpreferred Preferences Weak in Symbolic Content? \u003cem\u003eDavid George. \u003c\/em\u003eThe Gift Paradox: Complex Selves and Symbolic Good \u003cem\u003eElias L. Khalil. \u003c\/em\u003eDeriving the Engel Curve: Pierre Bourdieu and the Social Critique of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs \u003cem\u003eAndrew B. Trigg. \u003c\/em\u003eThe Post Affluent Society \u003cem\u003eAmitai Etzioni\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402122600791,"sku":"9780415456364","price":128.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780415456364.jpg?v=1730479460","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/consuming-symbolic-goods-9780415456364","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}