Citizens, Consumers, and the Good Society
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7496331 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Schudson (University of California, San Diego, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 611 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 236-249 |
| Publication date | 2007-04-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002716207299195 |
| OpenAlex | W2163710898 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 43 |
| References cited | 1 |
Advocating a “postmoralist” position in the analysis of consumer culture, this article holds that it is a mistake to identify political action with public-spirited motives and consumer behavior with self-interested motives. Both political behavior and consumer behavior can be either public-spirited or self-interested. Consumer choices can be expressly political and public-spirited, and styles of consumer behavior can enlist and enshrine values that serve democracy, from going to coffee-houses in eighteenth-century London to eating at McDonald's in twenty-first-century Beijing. Political behavior, meanwhile, may be a particular kind of consumer behavior, and political practice often turns out not to be public-spirited but egocentric and grasping. The article concludes with some suggestions for making political activity more like the experience of consumer choice, that is, more like a situation in which people can take their own preferences seriously because there is a reasonable prospect that they will ultimately matter
Action (physics · Advertising · Business · Consumer behaviour · Democracy · Mistake · Political action · Political science · Politics · Position (finance · Public relations · Sociology · Media Studies and Communication · Law · Marketing
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| Unique citing works | 43 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,26 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2024 (18) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 42 |