VOLUME 1: THEORETICAL AND HISTORICAL APPROACHES Historical Roots Consumption and Consumer Society: A contribution to the history of ideas - Ulrich Wyrwa Capitalism and the Consumer Revolution - Roberta Sassatelli The Alien Past: Consumer culture in historical perspective - Susan Strasser Beyond Consumerism: New historical perspectives on consumption - Frank Trentmann Political Economy The Fetishism of the Commodity and Its Secret - Karl Marx Conspicuous Consumption - Thorstein Veblen The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as mass deception - Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer Playing the Consumption Game - Ben Fine Sociology and Anthropology The Uses of Goods - Mary Douglas and Baron Isherwood The Habitus and the Space of Life-Styles - Pierre Bourdieu Classification in Art - Paul DiMaggio Perspectives on Consumer Culture - Mike Featherstone Consuming Goods and the Good of Consuming - Colin Campbell The Problem of Style - Georg Simmel Postmodernism and Cultural Studies Consuming Life - Zygmunt Bauman Liberatory Postmodernism and the Reenchantment of Consumption - A. Fuat Firat and Alladi Venkatesh Reconfiguration Consumer Culture Theory (CCT): Twenty years of research - Eric J. Arnould and Craig J. Thompson Delectable Materialism: Second thoughts on consumer culture - Michael Schudson The Human Consequences of Consumer Culture - Russell Belk VOLUME 2: ACQUISITION Commodification and Cultural Economy The Long History of Contemporary Consumer Society: Chronologies, practices, and politics in modern Europe - Frank Trentmann A Consumers′ Republic: The politics of mass consumption in postwar America - Lizabeth Cohen Politicising Consumer Culture: Advertising′s appropriation of political ideology in China′s social transition - Xin Zhao and Russell Belk Understanding the Flow of Symbolic Goods in the Global Cultural Economy - Omar Lizardo Trying to be Cosmopolitan - Craig Thompson and Siok Kuan Tambyah Poor Chic: The rational consumption of poverty - Karen Bettez Halnon Modes of Provision Notes on the Relationship between Production and Consumption - Alan Warde Toward a Theory of Consumer Choice as Sociohistorically Shaped Practical Experience: The fits-like-a-glove (FLAG) framework - Douglas Allen Calculation, Qualculation, Calqulation: Shopping cart′s arithmetic, equipped cognition and clustered consumers - Franck Cochoy The Poverty of Morality - Daniel Miller In Defence of Consumer Critique: Revisiting the consumption debates of the 20th century - Juliet Schor Production of Culture Culture as (and after) Production - Marco Santoro Why do Brands Cause Trouble? A dialectical theory of consumer culture and branding - Douglas Holt Body Lessons: Fitness publishing and the cultural production of the fitness consumer - Jennifer Smith Maguire Politics and Ethics of Distribution Voluntary Simplicity: Characterisation, select psychological implications and societal consequences - Amitai Etzioni Time and Wealth: The role of time and temporalities for sustainable patterns of consumption - Lucia Reisch Virtue, Responsibility and Consumer Choice: Framing critical consumerism - Roberta Sassatelli VOLUME 3: APPROPRIATION Singularisation The Cultural Biography of Things: Commoditisation as process - Igor Kopytoff Consumption and Identity: The cultural politics of shopping - Peter Jackson Consumption and Theories of Practice - Alan Warde Possessions and Performances Possessions and the Extended Self - Russell Belk Collecting as a Paradigm of Consumption - Marina Bianchi The Use of and Commitment to Goods - Kaj Ilmonen Divergent Narratives in the Imagining of the Home amongst Middle-Class Consumers: Aesthetics, comfort and the symbolic boundaries of self and home - Ian Woodward Music Lovers: Taste as performance - Antoine Hennion Use Three Ages of the Automobile: The cultural logics of the car - David Gartman A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Household Energy Use Behaviour in Japan and Norway - Harold Wilhite H et al Defrosting the Freezer: From novelty to convenience: a story of normalization - Elizabeth Shove and Dale Southerton Converging Conventions of Comfort, Cleanliness and Convenience - Elizabeth Shove Co-ordination Caring Consumers: Gendered consumption meanings and the juggling lifestyle - Craig Thompson Squeezing Time: Allocating practices, coordinating networks and scheduling society - Dale Southerton Mechanisms Fashion: From class differentiation to collective selection - Herbert Blumer Diderot Unities and the Diderot Effect - Grant McCracken Branded Communities - Albert Muniz Jr and Thomas O′Guinn Identity, Mobility and the Throwaway Society - Nicky Gregson, Alan Metcalfe and Louise Crewe VOLUME 4: APPRECIATION Power and Taste Elite Distinction: Grand theory and comparative perspectives - Jean-Pascal Daloz The Aristocracy of Culture - Pierre Bourdieu Poststructuralist Lifestyle Analysis: Conceptualising the social patterning of consumption in postmodernity - Douglas Holt Changing Highbrow Taste: From snob to omnivore - Richard Peterson and Roger Kern Disentangling Effacement, Omnivore, and Distinction Effects on Consumption of Cultural Activities: An illustration - Morris Holbrook, Michael Weiss and John Habich Differential Appreciation A Critique of Desire: Distaste and dislike in consumer behaviour - Richard Wilk Highbrow Cultural Consumption and Class Distinction in Italy, Israel, West Germany, Sweden and the United States - Tally Katz-Gerro A Cultural Map of the United Kingdom, 2003 - Modesto Gayo-Cal, Mike Savage and Alan Warde How Blacks Use Consumption to Shape Their Collective Identities - Michèle Lamont and Virág Molnár Gender Culture, Class and Connections - Bonnie Erickson Arts Participation as Cultural Capital in the United States, 1982-2002: Signs of decline? - Paul DiMaggio and Toqir Mukhtar The Question of Culture Consumption and Stratification Revisited - Omar Lizardo Global and Local Culture Coca-Cola: A black sweet drink from Trinidad - Daniel Miller Local Consumption Cultures in a Globalising World - Peter Jackson Fast Food in France - Rick Fantasia The Practical Aesthetics of Traditional Cuisines: Slow food in Tuscany - Mara Miele and Jonathan Murdoch Alternative Tastes Income and Happiness: Towards a unified theory - Richard Easterlin Time to be Lazy: Work, the environment and modern subjectivities - Eric Darier