Sociology & Social Policy

This book explores how the meanings of race are made and remade in everyday acts of consumption: it is through the consumption of products, TV, new media, books, food, design, toys and games, plants, animals and landscapes that we make sense of ourselves and others...

Provides a critical overview of the major sociological approaches to consumption in both modern and postmodern societies. Bocock develops a distinctive analysis of consumption as a socio-cultural process...

With an emphasis on everyday life, this respected text offers a lively and perceptive account of the key theories and ideas which dominate the field of consumption and consumer culture. Engaging case studies describe forms of consumption familiar to the student and illustrate how a range of theoreti..

Consumption and Generational Change..

Consumption and Generational Change..

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Drawing on the work of George Lakoff, this book provides a detailed analysis of the organism metaphor, which draws an analogy between the national or social body and a physical body. With attention to the manner in which this metaphor conceives of various sub-groups as either beneficial or detriment..

First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Featuring fresh and fascinating contributions from leading thinkers and theorists, Contested Bodies brings together a number of different accounts and perspectives on the body, drawing out some of the key connections and disjunctures from this most contested of topics...

At a time when the development promise is increasingly in question, with dwindling social gains, the vision of modernity is losing its legitimacy and coherence. This moment is observable through the lens of critical struggles of those who experience disempowerment, displacement and development contr..