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Teaching Consumption Studies Against the Grain: An Uncommon but Hopefully Useful Account
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Cook, Daniel. 2010. “Teaching Consumption Studies Against the Grain: An Uncommon But Hopefully Useful Account”. TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology, April. Washington DC: American Sociological Association. https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/teaching-consumption-studies-against-the-grain-an.

Abstract

When I took a position in the Department of Advertising at the University of Illinois, I understood that my "job" was to be the sociologist on staff who would contribute in that capacity to a liberal arts based curriculum. Having never taken a course in the sociology of consumption and having taught one only on one occasion as a graduate student at the...

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Subject Area(s):
Cultural Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Essay
Class Level(s):
College 200

Usage Notes

See Advertising 493: Social and Cultural Contexts of Advertising and Consumption syllabus and Advertising 493: First Paper Assignments

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