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"""The third edition of Mark Paterson’s Consumption and Everyday Life offers an excellent introduction to the sociology of consumption. It is readable, interesting and well-grounded in both the everyday life of, and the academic literature on, consumption. Most of the key ideas and orientations in the field are covered in a very lively and accessible manner."" George Ritzer, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Maryland, USA ""Consumption is indissolubly related to everyday life, and everyday life in the global West cannot be understood without reference to consumer practices. Writing in an accessible style and with many valuable examples, Paterson’s textbook offers a broad perspective on contemporary consumer dynamics. The book helps us understand the boundaries, specificity and importance of today’s cultures of consumption with particular attention to themes such as the commodification of youth, the gendered politics of consumption, the dynamics of globalization and the digitalization of everyday life."" Roberta Sassatelli, Professor of Sociology, University of Bologna, Italy"

The third edition of Mark Paterson's Consumption and Everyday Life offers an excellent introduction to the sociology of consumption. It is readable, interesting and well-grounded in both the everyday life of, and the academic literature on, consumption. Most of the key ideas and orientations in the field are covered in a very lively and accessible manner. George Ritzer, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Maryland, USA Consumption is indissolubly related to everyday life, and everyday life in the global West cannot be understood without reference to consumer practices. Writing in an accessible style and with many valuable examples, Paterson's textbook offers a broad perspective on contemporary consumer dynamics. The book helps us understand the boundaries, specificity and importance of today's cultures of consumption with particular attention to themes such as the commodification of youth, the gendered politics of consumption, the dynamics of globalization and the digitalization of everyday life. Roberta Sassatelli, Professor of Sociology, University of Bologna, Italy

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Mark Paterson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. Along with his interest in consumption, his research focuses on the body and the senses, particularly in relation to new technologies. He is the author of The Senses of Touch: Haptics, Affects and Technologies (Routledge, 2007), Seeing with the Hands: Blindness, Vision and Touch After Descartes (2016), and How We Became Sensorimotor: Movement, Measurement, Sensation (2021), as well as numerous journal articles. He is also co-editor of Touching Place, Spacing Touch (Routledge, 2012) and is on the editorial board of the journals Emotion, Space & Society, Multimodality and Society, and The Senses and Society.

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