The consumption of mass
By: edited by Nick Lee and Rolland Munro.
Contributors: Lee, Nick.; Munro, Rolland.
Series: Sociological review monographs; Sociological review monograph
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers; Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxford, UK; Malden, MA, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: Social sciences -- Philosophy; Mass society
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Interpreting mass : collection/dispersion / Robert Cooper; title: Pass the salt : how language moves matter / Dan Rose; title: The mystery of the Assumption : mothers and measures / Heather Höpfl; title: Sound, technics, energy : (consumption) / Rob Beeston; title: On mass, individuals, and peg communities / Zygmunt Bauman; title: The waiting of mass : endless displacement and the death of community / Rolland Munro; title: Consuming averages : interpreting luck and the social mass / Jane Parish; title: Virtual masses and real minorities : imagining the nation across space and time : the case of Rhodesians on the world wide web / Doug Stuart; title: All-consuming passions : materials and subjectivity in the age of enhancement / Joanna Latimer; title: Becoming mass : glamour, authority and human presence / Nick Lee; title: Ordering others and othering orders : the consumption and disposal of otherness / Cristina Pallí Monguilod; title: Border blues : between Maastricht and Dada disorder / Robert Grafton Small.