Psychology and Consumer Culture: The Struggle For A Good Life in a Materialistic World (Item 4317024) [Hardcover]

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Hardcover: 297 pages
Publisher: American Psychological Assoc; 1 edition (Sep 12 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1591470463
ISBN-13: 978-1591470465
Product Dimensions: 25.8 x 18.5 x 2.7 cm
Shipping Weight: 853 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #501,250 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Psychology and Consumer Culture provides an in-depth psychological analysis of consumerism that draws from a wide range of theoretical, clinical, and methodological approaches. The contributors to this edited volume demonstrate that consumerism and the culture that surrounds it exert profound and often undesirable effects on both people's individual lives and on society as a whole. Far from being distant influences, advertising, consumption, materialism, and the capitalistic economic system affect personal, social, and ecological well being on many levels. Authors address consumerism's effect on everything from culture, ethnicity, and childhood development to consciousness, gender roles, identity, work stress, and psychopathology. Contributors provide a variety of potential interventions for counteracting the negative influence of consumerism on individuals and on society. The book makes a strong case that, despite psychology's past reticence to investigate issues related to consumerism, such topics are crucial to understanding human life in the contemporary age.

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Knox College, Galesburg, IL. Provides an in-depth analysis of consumerism drawn from a wide range of theoretical, clinical, and methodological approaches. Demonstrates the effects of such influences as advertising, consumption, and materialism on personal, social, and ecological well-being on many levels. Exhibits ways to counteract these negative effects.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A very important book, Nov 30 2007

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This review is from: Psychology and Consumer Culture: The Struggle For A Good Life in a Materialistic World (Item 4317024) (Hardcover)

For those interested in psychology, sociology, and our culture, this is a very important book that deals with issues that we as a society somehow overlook, much to our detriment.

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