Consumption Matters

• Introduction: Consumption Matters: Stephen Edgell (University of Salford) and Kevin Hetherington (University of Keele). Part One: The Production of Consumption:.1. Becoming a consumer of care: developing a sociological account of the 'new community care': John Baldock (University of Kent) and Clare Ungerson (University of Southampton).2. Production, disbursement and consumption: the modes and modalities of goods and services: Keith Dowding (London School of Economics) and Patrick Dunleavy (London School of Economics).3. Public nightmares and communitarian dreams: the crisis of the social in social welfare: John Clarke (Open University).4. Producing consumption: women and the making of credit markets: Janet Ford (University of York) and Karen Rowlingson (University of Derby).5. Consumption and class analysis: Rosemary Crompton (University of Leicester).Part Two: The Experience of Consumption:.6. The enigma of Christmas: symbolic violence, compliant subjects and the flow of English kinship: Pnina Werbner (University of Keele).7. Consuming schooling: choice, commodity, gift and systems of exchange: Pat Allatt (University of Teeside).8. Expelling future threats: some observations on the magical world of vitamins: Pasi Falk (University of Helsinki).9.'Bastard' chicken or ghormeh-sabzi?: Iranian women guarding the health of the migrant family: Lynn Harbottle (University of Keele).10. Consuming the past: Gaynor Bagnall (University of Salford).11. The consumption view of self: extension, exchange and identity: Rolland Munro (University of Keele).12. Social class, consumption and the influence of Bourdieu: some critical issues: Brian Longhurst (University of Salford) and Mike Savage (University of Manchester).Afterword: the future of the sociology of consumption: Alan Warde (University of Lancaster).Notes on Contributors.Index

"Everybody involved in the sociology of consumption should find something to interest them." Peter Corrigan, University of New England, Australia