"The essays in this book originate from several conferences held under the auspices of the European and British sociological assoc[i]ations between 1996 and 1998"--Introd.
Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1
Jukka Gronow and Alan Warde
1 Sociology, Consumption and Routine 9
Kaj Ilmonen
2 Routinisation or Reflexivity? Consumers and Normative Claims for Environmental Consideration 25
Bente Halkier
3 Ordinary Consumption and Extraordinary Relationships: Utilities and their Users 45
Elizabeth Shove and Heather Chappells
4 Working at Consumption: The Second Home and Daily Life 59
Davina Chaplin
5 Extra-ordinary and Ordinary Consumption: Making Sense of Acquisition in Modern Taiwan 75
Shou-Cheng Lai
6 Tamed Hedonism: Choice, Desires and Deviant Pleasures 93
Roberta Sassatelli
7 Mobile Communication as a Way of Urban Life 107
Pasi Mdenpiii
8 Ordinary Consumption and Personal Identity: Radio and the Middle Classes in the North West of England 125
Brian Longhurst, Gaynor Bagnall and Mike Savage
9 By Car: Carrying Modern Society 143
Tim Dant and Peter J. Martin
10 Ordinary and Distinctive Consumption; or a Kitchen is a Kitchen is a Kitchen 159
Dale Southerton
11 The Role of States in the Creation of Consumption Norms 179
Terhi-Anna Wilska
12 Smart Life, Version 3.0: Representations of Everyday Life in Future Studies 199
Katja Oksanen-Sireld and Mika Pantzar
13 Epilogue: Conventional Consumption 219
Jukka Gronow and Alan Warde.
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Ordinary consumption. ISBN 0415270375. Published by Routledge in 2001. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
