The Oxford Handbook of Consumption
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Consumption PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick F. Wherry |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 646 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0190695587 |
The Oxford Handbook of Consumption consolidates the most innovative recent work conducted by social scientists in the field of consumption studies and identifies some of the most fruitful lines of inquiry for future research. It begins by embedding marketing in its global history, enmeshed in various political, economic, and social sites. From this embedded perspective, the book branches out to examine the rise of consumer culture theory among consumer researchers and parallel innovative developments in sociology and anthropology, with scholarship analyzing the roles that identity, social networks, organizational dynamics, institutions, market devices, materiality, and cultural meanings play across a wide variety of applications, including, but not limited to, brands and branding, the sharing economy, tastes and preferences, credit and credit scoring, consumer surveillance, race and ethnicity, status, family life, well-being, environmental sustainability, social movements, and social inequality. The volume is unique in the attention it gives to consumer research on inequality and the focus it has on consumer credit scores and consumer behaviors that shape life chances. The volume includes essays by many of the key researchers in the field, some of whom have only recently, if at all, crossed the disciplinary lines that this volume has enabled. The contributors have tried to address several key questions: What motivates consumption and what does it mean to be a consumer? What social, technical, and cultural systems integrate and give character to contemporary consumption? What actors, institutions, and understandings organize and govern consumption? And what are the social uses and effects of consumption?
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption
Title | The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption PDF eBook |
Author | Frank Trentmann |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 714 |
Release | 2012-03-22 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0199561214 |
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption offers a timely overview of how our understanding of consumption in history has changed in the last generation.
The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Food Consumption and Policy
Title | The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Food Consumption and Policy PDF eBook |
Author | Jayson L. Lusk |
Publisher | Oxford Handbooks |
Pages | 923 |
Release | 2013-08-15 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0199681325 |
First reference on food consumption and policy.
The Oxford Handbook of Food History
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Food History PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey M. Pilcher |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 537 |
Release | 2012-11-08 |
Genre | Cooking |
ISBN | 019972993X |
The final chapter in this section explores the uses of food in the classroom.
The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Poverty
Title | The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Poverty PDF eBook |
Author | David Brady |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 937 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0199914052 |
The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Poverty builds a common scholarly ground in the study of poverty by bringing together an international, inter-disciplinary group of scholars to provide their perspectives on the issue. Contributors engage in discussions about the leading theories and conceptual debates regarding poverty, the most salient topics in poverty research, and the far-reaching consequences of poverty on the individual and societal level.
The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society PDF eBook |
Author | John S. Dryzek |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 742 |
Release | 2011-08-18 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0191618578 |
Climate change presents perhaps the most profound challenge ever confronted by human society. This volume is a definitive analysis drawing on the best thinking on questions of how climate change affects human systems, and how societies can, do, and should respond. Key topics covered include the history of the issues, social and political reception of climate science, the denial of that science by individuals and organized interests, the nature of the social disruptions caused by climate change, the economics of those disruptions and possible responses to them, questions of human security and social justice, obligations to future generations, policy instruments for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and governance at local, regional, national, international, and global levels.
The Oxford Handbook of Information and Communication Technologies
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Information and Communication Technologies PDF eBook |
Author | Robin Mansell |
Publisher | Oxford Handbooks Online |
Pages | 644 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0199266239 |
The production and consumption of Information and Communication Technologies (or ICTs) have become embedded within our societies. The influence and implications of this have an impact at a macro level, in the way our governments, economies, and businesses operate, and in our everyday lives. This handbook is about the many challenges presented by ICTs. It sets out an intellectual agenda that examines the implications of ICTs for individuals, organizations, democracy, and the economy. Explicity interdisciplinary, and combining empirical research with theoretical work, it is organised around four themes covering the knowledge economy; organizational dynamics, strategy, and design; governance and democracy; and culture, community and new media literacies. It provides a comprehensive resource for those working in the social sciences, and in the physical sciences and engineering fields, with leading contemporary research informed principally by the disciplines of anthropology, economics, philosophy, politics, and sociology.