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SBS 399: This Consuming Life - Culture and Commodification
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Phillips, Jan. 2010. “SBS 399: This Consuming Life - Culture and Commodification”. TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology, April. Washington DC: American Sociological Association. https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/sbs-399-this-consuming-life-culture-and.

Abstract

This course provides an opportunity to, collaboratively, examine the place of goods and commodities in social life, moving beyond the narrow economic aspects of purchasing consumptive items to exploring the value of activities surrounding these goods for sociability, identity formation, and political-cultural expression. It will trace the way consumption...

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Subject Area(s):
Cultural Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 300

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