Managing overflow in affluent societies
By: edited by Barbara Czarniawska and Orvar Löfgren
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Routledge advances in sociology -- 70
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415519977
Subjects: Sociological aspects; Modern Civilization; Consumption (Economics); Economic aspects; Technology; Social change
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: The inherited theories of overflow and their challengers / Orvar Löfgren and Barbara Czarniawska; title: Pompes funèbres and the overflowing of ostentatious funerals / Pascale Trompette; title: News agencies : the places where information flows / Barbara Czarniawska; title: "In datamatrix veritas?" managing wine flow and information overflow with a two-dimensional barcode / Franck Cochoy; title: Book reviewing for Amazon.com : how socio-technical systems struggle to make less from more / Trevor Pinch; title: Scenes from a marriage : regulating flows between work and home / Gideon Kunda; title: It's simply too much! : coping with domestic overflow / Orvar Löfgren; title: Cozy friday : an analysis of family togetherness and ritual overconsumption / Helene Brembeck; title: Waste in overflow / Lynn Åkesson; title: Afterword : keep calm and carry on? : the economic history of overflow / Deirdre Nansen McCloskey; title: Contributors; title: References; title: Index.