Psychology and consumer culture : the struggle for a good life in a materialistic world / Tim Kasser and Allen D Kanner

By:

Kasser, Tim (ed)

Contributor(s):

Kanner, Allen D (ed)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Washington, DC : American psychological Association, 2003Description: xi, 297p. 26cmISBN:

9781591470465

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DDC classification:

306.3 KAS

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	Calcutta	306.3 KAS (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		IIMC-134524

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This book provides an in-depth psychological analysis of consumerism that draws from a wide range of theoretical, clinical, and methodological approaches. The contributors demonstrate that consumerism and the culture that surrounds it exert profound and often undesirable effects on both people's individual lives and on society as a whole. Authors address consumerism's effect on everything from culture, ethnicity, and childhood development to consciousness, gender roles, identity, work stress, and psychopathology. Contributors provide a variety of potential interventions for counteracting the negative influence of consumerism on individuals and on society. The book makes a strong case that, despite psychology's past reticence to investigate issues related to consumerism, such topics are crucial to understanding human life in the contemporary age.

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