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A Social and Economic Theory of Consumption

Editors: Sulkunen, Pekka; Gronow, Jukka; Noro, Arto; Rahkonen, Keijo; Warde, Alan

DOI: 10.1057/9780230295339

ISBN: 978-1-349-31873-5

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Aug 31, 2015

1 - 9 of 9 Chapters

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The Sociology of Consumption: a Brief History

Ilmonen, Kaj

Pages: 1 –9

[The sociological study of consumption goes as far back as sociology itself. Its empirical roots can be traced to the early development of statistical methods.1 The first household budgets were collected across Europe in the mid-nineteenth century to determine minimum income needs, and therefore...
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Markets and the Neo-liberal Utopia of Omnipotent Markets

Ilmonen, Kaj

Pages: 10 –34

[Towards the end of the twentieth century the world witnessed a sea change in economic policy thinking. The Reagan Administration in the United States and Margaret Thatcher’s Cabinets in the United Kingdom began to champion a new kind of thinking that effectively put an end to some of the key...
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Commodities and Consumption: General and Specific Features

Ilmonen, Kaj

Pages: 35 –44

[As we have seen, markets are artificially maintained structures. They support the movement of various kinds of things and agents, most notably money (capital) and commodities, as well as people who are selling their labour power and earning wages and consumers who are living on income transfers....
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Want, Need and Commodity

Ilmonen, Kaj

Pages: 45 –72

[Markets cannot exist without productive capital, which is needed, among other things, to organize human labour and non-human operating systems, technological circuits and logistics. These inputs result in an influx of commodities into the marketplace. In the absence of demand for these...
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Consumption and the Necessary Economic Conditions for Consumption

Ilmonen, Kaj

Pages: 73 –81

[Even the modern hedonist cannot participate in the markets without money. Money is a major determinant of both the external conditions for production and consumption and the relationship between those conditions. In the national economy the ceiling for consumption is determined by the total...
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The Use and Meanings of Money

Ilmonen, Kaj

Pages: 82 –100

[No discussion of the economic conditions for consumption and their distribution in society can avoid dealing with the peculiar thing that lies at the heart of those economic conditions, i.e. money. Money is, of course, itself a commodity that circulates in the market as payment for consumer...
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Mechanisms of Consumption Choice and Their General Cultural Framework

Ilmonen, Kaj

Pages: 101 –161

[As we have seen, disposable money is divided, firstly, into earmarked funds, which are deposited in a bank account and which are only used when the time comes; and secondly, into money that is spent on daily, weekly or monthly consumption. At this juncture I shall leave the former type of money...
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Consumption As Ideological Discourse

Ilmonen, Kaj

Pages: 162 –183

[Consumption so far has been understood in the relatively narrow sense of purchasing goods in the market. However, the event of buying actually forms only a small part of the wider process of consumption, as was discussed earlier in connection with the various dimensions of commodity. Consumption...
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Consumption As Use: Our Relationship to Commodities

Ilmonen, Kaj

Pages: 184 –204

[If consumption mechanisms and discourses about consumption also influence our use of goods, they can shed only limited light on the basics of those everyday uses. In this final chapter I intend to look more closely at consumption as use, giving special focus to the co-existence of consumer and...

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