Consuming Cultures

CATRINA ALFEROFF Lecturer for the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Staffordshire University KAY ARANDA Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy in the School of Health Studies at Croydon College MICHAEL BULL Lecturer in the Department of Communications at Anglia Polytechnic University TONY CHAPMAN Head of Sociology at the University of Teesside JA-RG DAuRRSCHMIDT Lecturer in Sociology at the University of the West of England, Bristol CRAIG GURNEY Lecturer in Housing at the Department of City and Regional Planning, University of Wales BARBARA HARRISON Professor of Sociology and Head of Department at the University of East London LYDIA MARTENS Lecturer in Sociology in the Department of Applied Social Science at the University of Stirling CHRIS MARTIN Research Fellow at the Centre for Educational Sociology, University of Edinburgh SHAUN MOORES Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh MARTIN O'BRIEN Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Surrey GILLIAN REYNOLDS Lecturer and Researcher at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Staffordshire University RACHEL THOMSON Senior Research Fellow in the School of Education, Politics and Social Science, South Bank University, London MARK THORPE Research Fellow in the Department of Geography at University College London ALAN WARDE Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University

Stressing the variety of ways in which consumption is structured and organised through cultures and showing how these cultural technologies construct the person, the senses and the self, this book stands at the interface of the sociologies of culture and consumption.Stressing the variety of ways in which consumption is structured and organised through cultures and showing how these cultural technologies construct the person, the senses and the self, this book stands at the interface of the sociologies of culture and consumption. Arranged in two sections: Homes and Households, Places and Spaces; and Technologies of Consumption and Waste, the book includes chapters on youth consumption, cultures of the household, pornography, and waste and rubbish. This will be of interest to all those concerned with the study of culture and consumption whether from sociological, cultural or psychological perspectives.