Expressing America : a Critique of the Global Credit Card Society.

This innovative text focuses on an American icon, central to United States culture, that is rapidly becoming a global expression of prosperity - the credit card. George Ritzer explains what the credit card tells us, both good and bad, about the essence of the modern US and why and how the credit car...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ritzer, Dr. George F.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 1995.
Temas:
Credit cards > Social aspects > United States.
Credit cards > Social aspects.
Consumer credit > United States.
Cartes de crédit > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Cartes de crédit > Aspect social.
Crédit à la consommation > États-Unis.
Consumer credit
Credit cards > Social aspects
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:This innovative text focuses on an American icon, central to United States culture, that is rapidly becoming a global expression of prosperity - the credit card. George Ritzer explains what the credit card tells us, both good and bad, about the essence of the modern US and why and how the credit card is helping to transform much of the world. Drawing on the insights of both classic and contemporary social thinkers, including Georg Simmel, C Wright Mills, Karl Marx and Max Weber, as well as micro-macro, agency-structure and Americanization theories, Ritzer also reveals to students the po.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (259 pages)
ISBN:9781452246666
1452246661

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