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Author Sulkunen, Pekka.

Title The saturated society : regulating risk and lifestyles in consumer culture / Pekka Sulkunen
Published Los Angeles ; London : SAGE, 2009

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 MELB  306.461 Sul/Ssr  AVAILABLE
Description x, 210 pages ; 24 cm
Series Theory, culture & society
Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered)
Contents 1. Introduction: the Problem of Justification -- 2. Lifestyle and the Social Bond -- 3. The Good Order of Nature: Progress and Criticism in Adam Smith's Sociology of Modernity -- 4. Autonomy: the Contracting Individual -- 5. Intimacy: the Romantic Self -- 6. The New Consumer Society and Its Critics -- 7. The Welfare State in the Consumer Society -- 8. From Pastoral to Epistolary Power -- 9. Inner-Directed or Other-Directed Character? Agency and Citizenship in Mass Society -- 10. Re-inventing the Social Contract
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [191]-204) and index
Subject Health behavior -- Public opinion.
Health promotion -- Government policy.
Health promotion -- Political aspects.
Health promotion -- Social aspects.
Lifestyles -- Health aspects.
Social policy.
LC no. 2010286279
ISBN 0761959416 (hbk.)
9780761959410 (hbk.)