Consumption : a sociological analysis

Thisbook critically reviews recent social scientific investigations ofconsumption, a controversial topic with moral overtones, and of popular publicinterest and political and economic significance. The author explores howconsumption affects personal identity and social position, developing asociological analysis using theories of practice to account for everydayconsumption, its role in the social order, and its consequences forenvironmental sustainability. The book offers a controversial analysis whichexplains consumption not in terms of the purchasing of commodities but of theorganization and coordination of daily practices.Consumption will be of interest to scholars and students of sociology,anthropology, geography, cultural studies, consumer research, business studiesand social theory.