The Saturated Society by Pekka Sulkunen

The Saturated Society by Pekka Sulkunen

Detailed and thought-provoking discussion of lifestyle regulation and how preventive lifestyle policies need to be shaped with the 'saturated society' - a society of self-controlled, fully autonomous individuals - in mind.

A provocative and stimulating intervention in a debate of key contemporary importance
Chris Shilling
Professor of Sociology, University of Kent

Pekka Sulkunen offers a fresh look at the transition from industrial society to consumer capitalism. He asks important questions about how consumer desires are produced and regulated and what it means to attempt to regulate the way we live. This book is stimulating, erudite and important.
Sue Scott
Pro Vice Chancellor at Glasgow Caledonian University

′A wide-ranging and multidimensional book...Overall, this is an interesting, thought-provoking and challenging book, and there is much in the thesis of the saturated society that we might usefully reflect upon.′
Acta Sociologica September

′The Saturated Society is an erudite and well reflected analysis of the complexities

of current consumer culture in general as well as in relation to the handling of specific risk and lifestyle issues of consumption... indispensable for the consumption researcher who wishes to be provoked in relation to her/his own habitual analytical assumptions about consumer culture.′
Journal of Consumer Culture

Pekka Sulkunen is Professor of Sociology at the University of Helsinki

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ISBN 13	9780761959410
ISBN 10	0761959416
Title	The Saturated Society
Author	Pekka Sulkunen
Series	Published In Association With Theory Culture And Society Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	SAGE Publications Inc
Year published	2009-03-19
Number of pages	224
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