Syllabus/achievement requirements

Book

Wilhite, H. 2008. Consumption and the Transfomation of Everday Life: A View from South India. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan

Compendium

Campbell, C. 1995. Chapter 3 “The Sociology of consumption” pp 96 - 126 in Daniel Miller (red): Acknowledging Consumption: A Review of new studies. London: Routledge.

Fine, B. and E. Leopold. 1993. Chapter 3 and 4 ‘Disarray in the Theory of consumer Behaviour’, pp39-45, and Economic and Consumer Behaviour, pp 46-54, in The World of Consumption. London: Routledge.

Layard, R. 2005. Chapter 4 ‘If you are so rich, why aren’t you happy? pp 41-53. In Layard, R. Happiness, lessons from a new science. London: Penguin books.

Miller, D. 1995. Chapter 1 ‘Consumption As the Vanguard of History’ pp 1- 57. In D. Miller (Ed.), Acknowledging Consumption: A Review of New Studies. London: Routledge.

Princen, Thomas, Michael Maniates and Ken Conca. 2002: Chapter 1 “Confronting Consumption” pp 1-20 in Thomas Princen, Michael Maniates and Ken Conca (red): Confronting Consumption. Cambridge: The MIT Press.

Rojek, Chris. 2004. “The Consumerist syndrome in Contemporary Socieity. An interview with Zygmunt Bauman” in Journal of Consumer Culture 4(3): 291 – 312

Schor, J.B. 1998. Chapter 6 ‘Learning Diderot’s lesson: Stopping the upward creep of desire’ pp 143-167. In Schor J.B. The overspent American. New York: HarperCollins

Shove, E., L. Lutzenhiser, S. Guy, B. Hackett, H. Wilhite: 1998. Chapter 5 “Energy and social systems” pp 291 - 325 in Steve Rayner and Elizabeth L. Malone (eds): Human Choice and Climate Change. Ohio: Battelle Press. 1998.

Verbeek, P. 2006. Materializing morality: Design ethics and technology mediation. Science, Technology & Human Values 31(3): 361 – 380.

Wilhite, H. and L. Lutzenhiser: "Social Loading and Sustainable Consumption", in Eric J. Arnould og Linda M. Scott (red): Advances in Consumer Research, vol 26. Montreal: Association for consumer research. 1999, pp.281-287.

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Online

McNeill, D. 1988. Consumtion, Need and Use-value. In, Fetishism and the Value-Form: towards a general theory of value. Phd. Thesis, University of London.

McNeill, D. 2010. Etichs, politics, economics and the global environment. In K. O'Brien, A.L. St. Clairand B. Kristoffersen (EDs), Climate Change, Ethics and Human Security.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Warde, A. 2005. Consumption and theories of practice. Journal of Consumer Culture 5:131-153.

Wilhite, H. 2012. Towards a better accounting of the roles of body, things and habits in consumption. In A. Warde and D. Southerton (eds) (2012) The Habits of Consumption, COLLeGIUM: Studies across Disiplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Volume 12. Helsinki: Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies.

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