1. Consumption as a key sociological concept
Consumption and capitalist consumerism
Consumption as process
Consumption as discourse
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2. What drives consumption?
Marx, alienation, and consumption
Social emulation
The Romantic ethic
Consumption and performativity
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3. Explaining consumption
Consumption as Manipulation
Consumption as communication
Consumption as poaching
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4. Sustainable consumption and capitalist consumerism
Consuming sustainably
Capitalist consumer society
Selling capitalism
The Anthropocene
The Capitalocene
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5. Mediatized consumption
Mediatization
Media love
Preliminary conclusions
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6. Consumption and everyday life
Symbolic interactionism
Ethnomethodology
Phenomenological sociology
Actor-Network-Theory
Practice theory
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7. Sociology of consumption after cultural studies
Cultural studies
The uses of literacy
Consuming utopian fiction
Notes
Postscript
Anti-consumption
Biography
John Storey is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies at the Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sunderland, UK. He has published widely on cultural theory, popular culture, consumption, and utopianism. He is the author of numerous books, including Culture and Power in Cultural Studies: The Politics of Signification (2010), From Popular Culture to Everyday Life (Routledge, 2014), Theories of Consumption (Routledge, 2017), Radical Utopianism and Cultural Studies: On Refusing to be Realistic (Routledge, 2019), Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction (Ninth Edition, Routledge, 2021), and Consuming Utopia: Cultural Studies and the Politics of Reading (Routledge, 2022). He is also editor of The Making of English Popular Culture (Routledge, 2016) and Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader (Routledge, 2019).
