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The saturated society : governing risk and lifestyles in consumer culture / Pekka Sulkunen.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered)Publisher: Los Angeles ; London : SAGE, 2009Description: x, 210 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0761959416
  • 9780761959410
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.461 22
LOC classification:
  • RA427.8 .S85 2009
Contents:
1. Introduction: the Problem of Justification -- 2. Lifestyle and the Social Bond -- 3. The Good Order of Nature: Progress and Criticism in Adam Smith's Sociology of Modernity -- 4. Autonomy: the Contracting Individual -- 5. Intimacy: the Romantic Self -- 6. The New Consumer Society and Its Critics -- 7. The Welfare State in the Consumer Society -- 8. From Pastoral to Epistolary Power -- 9. Inner-Directed or Other-Directed Character? Agency and Citizenship in Mass Society -- 10. Re-inventing the Social Contract.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-204) and index.

1. Introduction: the Problem of Justification -- 2. Lifestyle and the Social Bond -- 3. The Good Order of Nature: Progress and Criticism in Adam Smith's Sociology of Modernity -- 4. Autonomy: the Contracting Individual -- 5. Intimacy: the Romantic Self -- 6. The New Consumer Society and Its Critics -- 7. The Welfare State in the Consumer Society -- 8. From Pastoral to Epistolary Power -- 9. Inner-Directed or Other-Directed Character? Agency and Citizenship in Mass Society -- 10. Re-inventing the Social Contract.

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