Theories of Consumption

by John Storey

Theories of Consumption explores the concept of consumption from the post-disciplinary perspective of cultural studies.John Storey brings together work that up until now has been located in distinct disciplinary spaces including work on reception theory in literary studies and philosophy; work on consumer culture in sociology, anthropology and history; and work on media audiences (both ethnographic and theoretical) in media studies and sociology.Moving beyond the usual analysis of consumer culture, Storey presents a critical assessment of a range of theoretical approaches to the study of consumption. In doing so, he provides an authoritative overview of a significant selection of research and analysis that has explored consumption as an object of study.This book provides an ideal introduction to consumption for students of media and cultural studies and will also be useful for students within a number of other disciplines such as sociology, history, anthropology, cultural geography and both literary and visual studies.

144 pages, Paperback

Published January 22, 2017

About the author

Professor John Storey, Professor of Cultural Studies, Director of Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland.

Reviews

[Katy · Rating 4 out of 5]

If I’m gonna have to read a whole book about consumer culture for my degree then you damn right I’m gonna get some goodreads points out of it