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The Saturated Society: Governing Risk & Lifestyles in Consumer Culture (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)

Name: The Saturated Society: Governing Risk & Lifestyles in Consumer Culture (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)
ISBN: 9780761959427

Pekka Sulkunen

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Carefully analyzing the impact of the rise of consumer society it deftly argues that the saturation of the modern ideals of progress, individualism, and the democratic state has limited lifestyle regulation to stressing the self-responsibility of individuals within a free market. The book critically examines:Neo-Liberal ideology and the free marketThe Sociology of ModernityThe New Consumer SocietyCitizenship in Mass SocietyThe power of AutonomyThe interaction of Regulation and Agency

Categories:

Society, Politics & Philosophy - Social Sciences

Year:

2009

Publisher:

Sage Publications Ltd

Language:

english

Pages:

225

ISBN 10:

0761959424