SEMM704 Социология на консумтивното общество
Анотация:
The course Sociology of Consumption aims at introducing students in one of the most important trends in contemporary sociology, having direct relation to Bulgarian reality from the last 25 years. Consumer culture began to gradually fit in itself and transfer its principles to areas such as media information, political debate, education, health and so on. The criteria for the overall social realization of the contemporary people is increasingly measurable in consumerist terms and parameters. The course traces the origin of the models of consumer behavior from passed epochs, the critical awareness against consumerism in the XX century, and the most important contemporary theories about the social structure and conspicuous lifestyles in the advanced knowledge based societies.
Преподавател(и):
проф. Кристиан Банков д.н.
доц. Евгения Благоева д-р
Описание на курса:
Компетенции:
After completing successfully this course the students will:
1) know:
• About the origin of consumer culture in the Western world.
• About the theories of classical authors on consumer society.
• About the critical views on consumer society and the modern theories.
• About the consumer culture and lifestyles in Bulgaria.
2) are capable of:
• better navigate in the contemporary identification processes based on conspicuous consumption.
• analyse the vast amount of media information relevant to the specific features of our society and lifestyles.
Предварителни изисквания:
No particular requirements
Форми на провеждане:
Редовен
Учебни форми:
Лекция
Език, на който се води курса:
Английски
Теми, които се разглеждат в курса:
Литература по темите:
Adorno, Theodor W. (1951). Minima moralia. Reflexionen aus dem beschadigten Leben. Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Baudrillard, Jean (1968). Le Systeme des objectes. Paris: Gallimard;
Bauman, Zigmunt (1998a). Work, consumerism and the new poor. Philadelphia: Open University Press.
––.–– (1998b). Globalization: The Human Consequences. New York: Columbia University Press.
––.–– (2000). Liquid Modernity. Cambridge: Polity.
––.–– (2003). Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds. Cambridge: Polity.
Bourdieu, Pierre (1962). „Les relations entre les sexes dans la societe paysanne”, Temps modernes, n° 195, aout 1962, p. 307-331.
––.–– (1979). La distinction: critique sociale du jugement. Paris: Ed. de Minuit, 1979.
Campbell, Colin (1987). The Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
––.–– (2004). “I Shop therefore I Know that I Am: The Metaphysical Basis of Modern Consumerism” in Ekstrom & Brembeck 2004, pp. 27-43.
––.–– (2005). “The Craft Consumer: culture, craft and consumption in a postmodern society” in Journal of Consumer Culture. Vol 5(1): 23–42.
Douglas, Mary & Isherwood, Baron (1979). The World of Goods: Towards an Anthropology of Consumption. London and New York: Basic Books.
Featherstone, Mike (1991). Consumer Culture and Postmodernism. London: Sage.
––.–– (2004) Automobilities: An Introduction in Theory, Culture & Society 2004 (SAGE, London: Thousand Oaks and New Delhi), Vol. 21(4/5). pp. 1–24
Giddens, Antony (1991). Modernity and Self-Identity. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Horkheimer, Max & Adorno, Theodor W. (1947). Dialektik der Aufklarung. Philosophische Fragmente. Amsterdam 1947;
McCracken, Grant (1988). Culture and Consumption: New Approaches to The Symbolic Character of Consumer Goods and Activities. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
McKendrick, N., Brewer, J. and Plumb J.H. (1982). The Birth of Consumer Society: The Commercialization of Eighteenth-Century England, Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Miller, Daniel (1998). The Theory of Shopping. Cambridge: Polity Press;
––.–– (ed.) (2001). Car cultures. Oxford, New York: Berg
Mitchell, Arnold (1983). The Nine American Lifestyles. New York: Macmillan.
Mukerji, Chandra. (1983). From Graven Images: Patterns of Modern Materialism. New York: Columbia University Press.
Rifkin, Jeremy (2000). The Age of Access: The New Culture of Hypercapitalism, Where all of Life is a Paid-For Experience, New York: Penguin/Putnam
Ritzer, George (1993). The McDonaldization of Society. London: Sage.
––.–– (1995). The McDonaldization of Society. London: Sage.
––.–– (1999, 2005). Enchanting a Disenchanted World. London: Sage.
Simmel, George (1885, 1905). Die Mode. Berlin: Pan Verlag;
––.–– (1900, 1907). Philosophie der Geldes, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot;
Slater, Don (1997). Consumer Culture and Modernity, Cambridge: Polity Press.
Sombart, Werner (1913, 1922). Luxus und Kapitalismus, Munchen: Dunker & Humbolt;
Veblen, Thorstein (1899). The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions. New York: The McMillan Company.
Weber, M. (1904, 1905). Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus. Archiv fur Sozialwissenschaft. 20-21.
––.–– (1922). Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Grundri? der verstehenden Soziologie. Tubingen: Mohr; цитатите са от английското издание Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology, Berkeley CA: University of California Press, 1978.
Средства за оценяване:
TEST 20%
WRITTEN ASINGMENT 30%
PRACTICAL ASSIGNMENT 30%
PORTFOLIO 30%
ORAL EXAM
PARTICIPATION IN SEMINAR
ESSAYS