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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Thousand Oaks :
SAGE Publications,
1995.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 520 | |a 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. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 -- The Credit Card: Private Troubles and Public Issues; Chapter 2 -- Socio-History of the Credit Card: We Probably won't Recognize the Credit Card Field by the End of the Century; Chapter 3 -- Credit Card Debt: Beware the Plastic Loan Shark; Chapter 4 -- Credit Card Fraud: Screw You, Mac-I Got Mine; Chapter 5 -- Secrecy, Privacy, and Credit Cards: Who isn't in Their Files?; Chapter 6 -- Credit Cards, Fast-Food Restaurants, and Rationalization: All You Need is 42 Digits to Make One Long-Distance Phone Call. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Chapter 7 -- An American Express: The Culture that Conquered the WorldAppendix; Endnotes; Index. | |
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