Dream Worlds

1. Auflage 1992
ISBN: 978-0-520-07424-8
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 463 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 721 g

In Dream Worlds, Rosalind Williams examines the origins and moral implications of consumer society, providing a cultural history of its emergence in late nineteenth-century France.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Williams, Rosalind H.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Umwelt-, Konsum- und Werbepsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

1. The Implications of the Consumer Revolution

Part One: The Development of Consumer Lifestyles

2. The Closed World of Courtly Consumption

3. The Dream World of Mass Consumption

4. The Dandies and Elitist Consumption

5. Decorative Arts Reform and Democratic Consumption

Part Two: The Development of Critical Thought about Consumption

6. From Luxury to Solidarity: The Quest for a Morale of the Consumer

7. Charles Gide and the Emergence of Consumer Activism

8. Durkheim, Tarde, and the Emergence of a Sociology of Consumption

9. A Fragment of Future History: Beyond the Consumer Revolution

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rosalind H. Williams is Dean for Undergraduate Education and Metcalf Professor of Writing at MIT and author of Notes on the Underground: An Essay on Technology, Society, and the Imagination.