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In this book, one of the leading social theorists and cultural commentators of modern times, turns his gaze on consumption. George Ritzer, author of the famous McDonaldization Thesis, demonstrates the irrational consequences of the rational desire to consume and commodify. He examines how McDonaldization might be resisted, and situates the reader in the new cultural spaces that are emerging in society: shopping malls, casino hotels, Disneyfied theme parks and Las Vegas, the new 'cathedrals of consumption' as he calls them. The book shows how new processes of consumption relate to globalization theory. In illuminating discussions of the work of Thorstein Veblen and the French situationists, Ritzer unearths the roots of problems of consumption in older sociological traditions. He indicates how transgression is bound up with consumption, through an investigation of the obscene in popular and postmodern culture.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Sociology

• Full title: Explorations in the Sociology of Consumption
• Author: George Ritzer
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9780761971207
• ISBN: 0761971203
• ID: 04156721
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc
• Weight: 428 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 160 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. April 2001

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