The Saturated Society : Governing Risk & Lifestyles in Consumer Culture.

A provocative and stimulating intervention in a debate of key contemporary importance' - Chris Shilling, Professor of Sociology, University of Kent. Pekka Sulkunen offers a fresh look at the transition from industrial society to consumer capitalism. He asks important questions about how consume...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sulkunen, Pekka
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Sage Publications, 2009.
Colección:Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society.
Temas:
Lifestyles > Health aspects.
Health behavior > Public opinion.
Health promotion > Political aspects.
Health promotion > Social aspects.
Health promotion > Government policy.
Habitudes sanitaires > Opinion publique.
Promotion de la santé > Aspect politique.
Promotion de la santé > Aspect social.
Promotion de la santé > Politique gouvernementale.
Health behavior > Public opinion
Health promotion > Government policy
Health promotion > Political aspects
Health promotion > Social aspects
Lifestyles > Health aspects
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Publisher's Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: the Problem of Justification; 2 Lifestyle and the Social Bond; 3 The Good Order of Nature: Progress and Criticism in Adam Smith's Sociology of Modernity; 4 Autonomy: the Contracting Individual; 5 Intimacy: the Romantic Self; 6 The New Consumer Society and Its Critics; 7 The Welfare State in the Consumer Society; 8 From Pastoral to Epistolary Power; 9 Inner-Directed or Other-Directed Character? Agency and Citizenship in Mass Society; 10 Re-inventing the Social Contract; References; Index.

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