Binkley Getting Loose

Lifestyle Consumption in the 1970s
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8951-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 310 Seiten

Examines the changing character of American consumer culture in the 1960s, 70s, and late 20th century generally, driven by changing forms of identity, notably a "loosening" of the self, by which Binkley means to evoke a wide range of identity pr

Autoren/Hrsg.

Binkley, Sam

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction / Mediated Immediacy: Living in the Now 1

Part I / Middle Class in the Maelstrom

1. Of Swingers and Organization Men: Loose Modernities 27

2. Experts Unbound: Intimate Professionals and the Value of Lifestyle 77

3. Book as Tool: Lifestyle Print Culture and the West Coast Publishing Boom 101

Part II / Caring Texts

4. Being One: From Knowledge to Consciousness in the Spaceship Society 129

5. Loving Each Other: From Phony to Real in the New Togetherness 165

6. Letting It All Hang Out: From Mind to Muscle in the Relaxed Body 207

Conclusion / Morning in America: Pulling in the Slack 243

Notes 251

Bibliography 263

Index 287

Über Autor(innen)

Sam Binkley is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Emerson College.
Visit the author’s blog.