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Shop 'til You Drop: Consumer Behavior and American Culture de Arthur Asa Berger

Shop 'til You Drop: Consumer Behavior and American Culture

Autor Arthur Asa Berger
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 noi 2004
Are Americans obsessed with shopping? Shop 'til You Drop is a lively look at our consumer culture and its role in our everyday lives and society. Is the United States different from other first-world nations in the amount of time we spend shopping or in our attitudes toward consumption? Are we one unified consumer culture or are several cultures operating and battling against one another? Arthur Asa Berger uncovers the answers to these and other questions, considering the sacred roots of consumer culture, the demographics of consumption, theories about competing cultures, and the semiotics of shopping. Accessibly written and entertaining, Shop 'til You Drop is ideal for courses in cultural studies, advertising, and American studies, as well as for anyone curious about our nation's drive to consume.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780742536913
ISBN-10: 0742536912
Pagini: 152
Dimensiuni: 154 x 229 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Chapter 1 Acknowledgments
Chapter 2 Preface
Chapter 3 1 What Are Consumer Cultures?
Chapter 4 2 Data on Consumer Cultures
Chapter 5 3 The Act of Consumption
Chapter 6 4 Perspectives on Consumption
Chapter 7 5 The Semiotics of Shopping
Chapter 8 6 Malls and the American Consumer Culture
Chapter 9 7 Tourism and Consumer Culture
Chapter 10 8 Buyer's Remorse
Chapter 11 References

Recenzii

This lively, well-formatted book moves quickly, explaining theories succinctly and profiling consumers' personalities, behaviors, and preferred shopping environments. In examining the cultural aspects of shopping, Berger's unique work looks at the changing demographics and psychographics of today's consumers, comparing the role of modern department stores to that of medieval cathedrals. Highly recommended.
In Shop 'Til You Drop, Berger covers everything on the subject of consumer culture from Calvinist perspectives on asceticism, to the mythical importance of houses, the feminization of men, and the death of shopping malls. The book appears to serve as a kind of 'catch-all' on consumer culture, defining, describing, and explaining consumer culture and behavior in sociological, psychological, philosophical, and anthropological terms.
In Shop 'til You Drop, Arthur Asa Berger has done it again. With a sense of humor and sagacious aplomb that is always just below the surface, he is nevertheless able to say profound and insightful things that make us reflect on things as they are. I know of no other work in the field of cultural studies that provides such a penetrating analysis of the roots of consumerism, unraveling its mythic-religious roots, its meaning structures, and its many ritualistic aspects. Berger's book has finally explained to me why shopping, in and of itself, holds such enormous appeal. It is one of those 'good reads' that entertains at the same time that it enlightens.