Shopper's Paradise

Retail Stores and American Consumer Culture
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-40865-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 130 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 204 g

Reihe: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences / Brill Research Perspectives in Popular Culture

Shopper’s Paradise: Retail Stores and American Consumer Culture deals with the cultural, social and economic impact of different kinds of retail stores on American society. It has sections on some of the most important retail genres, such as Internet stores (Amazon.com), department stores (Neiman Marcus), coffee shops (Starbucks), big-box stores (Walmart, Costco) and a number of other kinds of stores such as dollar stores, malls, and farmers markets. It also has a discussion of consumer cultures. The subtext in the publication is the notion that shopping is connected with a desire to return to paradise, from which we were excluded due to Adam and Eve’s behavior in the Garden of Eden. Thus, the term “paradise” has two meanings. It is written in an accessible style and makes use of material from a variety of journalists and scholars who write about the retail industry and consumer cultures.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berger, Arthur Asa

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wissenssoziologie, Wissenschaftssoziologie, Techniksoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Shopper’s Paradise. Retail Stores and American Consumer Culture

Arthur Asa Berger

Abstract

Keywords

1 Introduction

2 Amazon.com

3 Department Stores

4 Shopping Malls

5 Supermarkets

6 Farmers Markets

7 Costco

8 Dollar Stores

9 Neiman Marcus (Formerly Neiman-Marcus)

10 CVS (Consumer Value Store) Pharmacies

11 Wal-Mart/Walmart

12 Starbucks

13 Consumer Cultures

14 A Consumer’s Odyssey: Everyday Life’s Routines and Its Many Stores

15 Coda

Acknowledgments

References

List of Figures

Über Autor(innen)

Arthur Asa Berger, Ph.D. University of Minnesota (1965), is the author of more than 100 articles and 70 books on popular culture, media studies, communication, humor, and tourism. His books have been translated into nine languages. He is an inductee in the University of Iowa School of Journalism and Mass Communication Hall of Fame, had a Fulbright to Italy and was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Argentina, Germany, and Belarus.

His recent publications include: Applied Discourse Analysis (Palgrave, 2016), Marketing and American Consumer Culture (Palgrave, 2016), Cultural Perspectives on Millennials (Palgrave, 2018), Perspectives on Everyday Life: A Cross-Disciplinary Cultural Analysis (Palgrave, 2019), and Signs in Society and Culture (Nanjing Normal University Press, 2019).