TY - BOOK AU - Baudrillard,Jean TI - Consumer society: myths and structures T2 - Theory, culture & society series SN - 9781473982383 (paper back) U1 - 306.3 BAU PY - 2017/// CY - Thousand Oaks, CA PB - Sage Publications KW - Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects KW - Consumption (Economics) KW - Consumer behavior KW - Culture--Economic aspects KW - Consumer protection KW - Culture KW - Mass media and culture KW - Anomy N1 - GBP 30.99/- TBH86/199; Introduction / George Ritzer -- -- pt. I. The formal liturgy of the object -- 1. Profusion -- 2. The miraculous status of consumption -- 3. The vicious circle of growth -- -- pt. II. The theory of consumption -- 4. The social logic of consumption -- 5. Towards a theory of consumption -- 6. Personalization, or, The smallest marginal difference -- -- pt. III. Mass Media, sex and leisure -- 7. Mass-media culture -- 8. The finest consumer object : the body -- 9. The drama of leisure, or, The impossibility of wasting one's time -- 10. The mystique of solicitude -- 11. Anomie in the affluent society -- -- Conclusion : on contemporary alienation, or, the end of the pact with the devil ER -