Consumer cultural studies

ACR North American Advances, 2005

ADVANCES IN CONSUMER RESEARCH, 2005

Journal of consumer research, 1986

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Marketing Theory, 2014

The special issue of Marketing Theory (2013) on Consumer Culture Theory (CCT) updates and restates the main aims and controversies in CCT as well as offering a number of novel interpretations on the history and possible future direction of the movement. While the anchor paper from Thompson et al. (2013) is notable for the invocation of Bakhtin's concept of Heteroglossia, its main significance is as a reply to ongoing critiques of the CCT project. In this commentary article we highlight the common tendency among critics to emphasise the paradigmatic and institutional basis for CCT as residing in the context of academic discourse. These accounts utilise what Coskuner-Balli (2013) discusses as the mobilization of cultural myths. One consequence of this process of retelling the CCT creation narrative is that it diverts and obscures other ideological readings of CCT. We highlight what we understand as the underlying neoliberal sentiment at the centre of the CCT project. A neoliberal perspective repositions some of the main criticisms of CCT, especially those regarding the overemphasis on consumer subjectivities.

The SAGE Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Religion , 2020

Consumer culture is a concept that defines our contemporary societies by highlighting the importance of consumption as a dominant social ethos—that is, as a system of dispositions that orients and structures actors’ conduct and thus shapes relations to the self, others, community, society, and the world. It is intimately linked to the concept of consumerism, which emphasizes the ideological, normative, and encompassing dimensions that are constitutive of consumption in industrial and postindustrial economies. The concept posits the novelty and distinctive nature of modern consumption. Although modern consumption emerged in the West, the last wave of globalization has extended the penetration of consumerism to virtually all non-Western societies, and to an increasing spectrum of social classes, to the extent that the concept of consumer culture is now a powerful definer of life in the global age. This entry follows the trajectory of consumer culture and its global dissemination, with particular attention to its manifestations in the realm of the religious and spiritual dimensions of the self, as discussed in the work of a number of scholars specializing in the sociology of religion. (...)

This article provides a synthesizing overview of the past 20 yr. of consumer research addressing the soclocultural, experiential, symbolic, and ideological aspects of consumption. Our aim is to provide a viable disciplinary brand for this research tradition that we call consumer culture theory (CCT). We propose that CCT has fulfilled recurrent calls for developing a distinctive body of theoretical knowledge about consumption and marketplace behaviors. In developing this argument, we redress three enduring misconceptions about the nature and analytic orientation of CCT. We then assess how CCT has contributed to consumer research by illuminating the cultural dimensions of the consumption cycle and by developing novel theorizations concerning four thematic domains of research interest.

International Series on Consumer Science, 2018

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The SAGE Handbook of Consumer Culture

Globalization is often linked to hybridity. This is a world 'where reggae emerges from the slums of Kingston, and mixes with hundreds of other local musical styles,

DECISION, 2015

Qualitative Market Research, 2019

Purpose – This paper aims to illuminate the characteristics of Analytic and Continental scholarship to generate a deeper appreciation for both writing styles in the consumer culture theory (CCT) community. Design/methodology/approach – Two CCT researchers discuss the merits of Analytic and Continental scholarship in an accessible dialogical format. Findings – Analytic ideals of scholarship, espoused by elite academic journals, include conceptual rigor, logical claims, theoretical coherence, researcher agnosticism and broad generalizability. Continental ideals of scholarship, more likely to be espoused by niche and/or critical journals, include creative writing, holistic interpretation, intellectual imagination, political provocation and deep contextualization. Originality/value – This dialogue may build more understanding across variously oriented scholars, literatures, and journals in the CCT community.

1969

The study of Jewish consumer culture has been steadily gaining momentum in the consumer behavior, tourism, and consumer culture theory literature of the past two decades. However, as Nils Roemer and Gideon Reuveni state in Longing, Belonging, and the Making of Jewish Consumer Culture, very little has been written about Jewish consumption from the historical perspective. Roemer and Reuveni present a very compelling volume, comprised of ten chapters that examine a broad spectrum of specific contexts related to Jewish consumption. The chapters themselves are wide-ranging and take the reader through an array of venues, ranging from prewar Germany to the present-day United States. In this regard, the editors have shown the dynamic nature of Jewish consumer culture in the modern, globalized landscape.

1993

Oxford Handbook of Consumption (2018), eds. Frederick F. Wherry and Ian Woodward, Oxford University Press., 2017

In this chapter, we aim to describe some of the disciplinary fault lines—to use Alexander and Phillips’s (2001) metaphoric framing of disciplinary tensions—that have shaped the intellectual contours of CCT, profile the primary theoretical motifs that have defined this pluralistic research tradition, and discuss the intellectual trajectories that are being marked out by recent CCT research. We will conclude by reflecting on the dilemmas and opportunities posed by the fairly rapid institutionalization of CCT.

The Routledge Companion to the Cultural Industries