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Constructing the New Consumer Society

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  • © 1997

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Editors:
  1. Pekka Sulkunen

    1. Social Research Unit of Alcohol Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland

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  2. John Holmwood

    1. Department of Sociology, University of Edinburgh, UK

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  3. Hilary Radner

    1. Department of Communication and Theater, University of Notre Dame, USA

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  4. Gerhard Schulze

    1. Fakultät Sozial-und Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Otto-Friedrich-Universität, Bamberg, Germany

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  5. Jo Campling
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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: The New Consumer Society—Rethinking the Social Bond

    1. Introduction: The New Consumer Society—Rethinking the Social Bond

      • Pekka Sulkunen
      Pages 1-18

  3. The Vision

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. The Return of Dionysus

      • Michel Maffesoli
      Pages 21-37

    3. From Situations to Subjects: Moral Discourse in Transition

      • Gerhard Schulze
      Pages 38-57

    4. Citizenship and Inequality in Postmodern Social Theory

      • John Holmwood
      Pages 58-78

  5. Regulating Needs and Pleasures

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 195-195
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    2. The ‘Consumer’ in Political Discourse: Consumer Policy in the Nordic Welfare States

      • Kaj Ilmonen, Eivind Stø
      Pages 197-217

    3. Designing the Good Life: Nutrition and Social Democracy in Norway

      • Thor Øivind Jensen, Unni Kjærnes
      Pages 218-233

    4. The Construction of Environmental Risks: Eco-Labelling in the European Union

      • Peter Simmons
      Pages 234-255

    5. Logics of Prevention: Mundane Speech and Expert Discourse on Alcohol Policy

      • Pekka Sulkunen
      Pages 256-276

    6. Governance of Consumption

      • Gary Wickham
      Pages 277-291

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 293-302
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About this book

This book argues that the coming of the 'a new consumerism' in the affluent societies marks a distinct phase of modernity. Limits of production no longer confine consumption to what is necessary or instrumental. Demands for increasing production no longer shape ideology and culture as they did previously. Important contemporary themes of morality, the body, citizenship and inequality are here placed in a new theoretical light. The book provides examples of new codes of happiness in consuming products, culture and entertainment. Issues of nutrition, consumer policy, environmental risk and health are discussed in the light of these new codes.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Social Research Unit of Alcohol Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland

    Pekka Sulkunen

  • Department of Sociology, University of Edinburgh, UK

    John Holmwood

  • Department of Communication and Theater, University of Notre Dame, USA

    Hilary Radner

  • Fakultät Sozial-und Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Otto-Friedrich-Universität, Bamberg, Germany

    Gerhard Schulze

About the editors

John Holmwood is Professor of Sociology at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is President of the British Sociological Association and is co-editor (with Stephen Turner) of the Palgrave Pivot series Sociology Transformed, which explores national histories of sociology.

John Scott is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Plymouth University, UK. He is a former President of the British Sociological Association and Honorary Professor in Sociology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is author of Envisioning Sociology: Victor Branford, Patrick Geddes, and the Quest for Social Reconstruction.

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