Postmodern Consumption
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7076314 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pauline Maclaran (0000-0002-3076-3629, Royal Holloway University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Pages | 1-4 |
| Publication date | 2020-04-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosp065.pub2 |
| OpenAlex | W4234706452 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 12 |
The term “postmodern consumption” encapsulates the notion of individuals communicating symbolic meanings through their possessions and experiences, meanings often concerned with identity, status, or relationships. Capitalism drives postmodern consumption, offering consumers a myriad of ways to manipulate signs and symbols encoded into goods and services through its advertising and marketing systems. Thus, the imagination plays a central role in postmodern consumption, perpetuating desire rather than satisfaction together with the endless quest for self‐transformation in the marketplace
Aesthetics · Art · Capitalism · Consumption (sociology · Identity (music · Late capitalism · Literature · Political science · Postmodern theatre · Postmodernism · Sociology · Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification · Law · Media, Gender, and Advertising
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |