The Oxford Handbook of Consumption

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Contents
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Introduction: Situating Consumers and Consumption
PART I KEY CONTEMPORARY THEMES
	1. The Social Embeddedness of Marketing
	2. The Sharing Economy
	3. Prosumption: Contemporary Capitalism and the “New” Prosumer
	4. Consumer Culture Theory
	5. A Sociological Critique and Reformulation of Brands
	6. Relational Work and Consumption
	7. Meaningful Objects and Consumption
	8. Bourdieu, Distinction, and Aesthetic Consumption
PART II ORGANIZING CONSUMPTION
	9. Taste, Legitimacy, and the Organization of Consumption
	10. Cultural Markets and Consecration
	11. Emotions in Consumer Studies
	12. Young People and Consumption
	13. Consumption as Production
PART III CONSUMER TRANSACTIONS, RELATIONS, AND DEVICES
	14. Household Finances and Credit Visibility
	15. The Cultivation of Market Behaviors and Economic Decisions
	16. Consumer Transactions: Consumer Banking
	17. Consumer Credit Surveillance
PART IV INEQUALITY AND STRATIFICATION
	18. Omnivorousness, Distinction, or Both?
	19. The Development of Ethnoracial Market Segments
	20. Race and Consumer Inequality
	21. Fashion and Its Gendered Agendas
	22. Gentrification and Urban Inequality
	23. Branding National Identity in an Unequal World
PART V PRACTICES, PERFORMANCES, AND IDENTITIES
	24. Subcultures and Consumption
	25. Taste, Sensation, and Skill in the Sociology of Consumption
	26. Food Tastes
	27. Gender as a Critical Perspective in Marketing Practice
	28. Consumer Cities, Scenes, and Ethnic Restaurants
PART VI REFORMULATING MARKETS
	30. Affluence, Anti-Consumerism, and the Politics of Consumption
	31. Linking Environmental Sustainability and Consumption
Index