The Shopping Experience by Pasi Falk

The Shopping Experience by Pasi Falk

This shrewd and probing book seeks to theorize shopping as an autonomous realm. It avoids the reductionist characteristics of economics and marketing. At the same time it avoids the moralizing tone of many contemporary discussions of shopping and consumption. It also contains an appendix which gives a brief history and selected literature of shopping.

`Editors Pasi Falk and Colin Campbell provide a collection of hughly readable and engaging articles which help to move scholars toward greater emphasis on the practices associated with obtaining goods′ - Area

`If cities are less the loci of production than they are of consumption, and class is being replaced by lifestyle, shopping certainly occupies a pivotal place in such changesFalk and Campbell have assembled a fascinating set of essays to reflect the trend, written for the most part by sociologists and anthropologists, but which will be of much wider interest to all those concerned with the current urban condition.... There are some familiar arguments here, about the place of the shopping mall - the nature of which is explored in this volume - but, as familiar as they may have become, this hardly denies that we need to know a lot more about shopping and its meaning for different consumers. This book shows the directions such research should take and in a useful appendix an outline history and select bibliography are presented′ - Urban Studies

Pasi Falk is a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Sociology, University of Helsinki

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ISBN 13	9780761950677
ISBN 10	0761950672
Title	The Shopping Experience
Author	Pasi Falk
Series	Published In Association With Theory Culture And Society
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	SAGE Publications Inc
Year published	1997-08-15
Number of pages	224
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