Point of Purchase: How Shopping Changed American Culture
by Sharon Zukin
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This accessible, smart, and expansive book on shopping's impact on American life is in part historical, stretching back to the mid-19th century, yet also has a contemporary focus, with material on recent trends in shopping from the internet to Zagat's guides. Drawing inspiration from both Pierre Bourdieu's work and Walter Benjamin's seminal essay on the shopping arcades of 19th-century Paris, Zukin explores the forces that have made shopping so central to our lives: the rise of consumer show more culture, the never-ending quest for better value, and shopping's ability to help us improve our social status and attain new social identities. show lessTags
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Sharon Zukin teaches urban sociology and urban political economy at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where she is a professor of sociology
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Sociology, History, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 306.3 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social Behavior - Dating, Marriage, Divorce Economic institutions
- LCC
- HC110 .C6 .Z84 — Social sciences Economic history and conditions Economic history and conditions By region or country
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- Languages
- English
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- Paper, Ebook
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