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1 online resource (259 pages) |
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Cover; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 -- The Credit Card: Private Troubles and Public Issues; Chapter 2 -- Socio-History of the Credit Card: We Probably won't Recognize the Credit Card Field by the End of the Century; Chapter 3 -- Credit Card Debt: Beware the Plastic Loan Shark; Chapter 4 -- Credit Card Fraud: Screw You, Mac-I Got Mine; Chapter 5 -- Secrecy, Privacy, and Credit Cards: Who isn't in Their Files?; Chapter 6 -- Credit Cards, Fast-Food Restaurants, and Rationalization: All You Need is 42 Digits to Make One Long-Distance Phone Call |
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Chapter 7 -- An American Express: The Culture that Conquered the WorldAppendix; Endnotes; Index |
| Summary |
This innovative text focuses on an American icon, central to United States culture, that is rapidly becoming a global expression of prosperity - the credit card. George Ritzer explains what the credit card tells us, both good and bad, about the essence of the modern US and why and how the credit card is helping to transform much of the world. Drawing on the insights of both classic and contemporary social thinkers, including Georg Simmel, C Wright Mills, Karl Marx and Max Weber, as well as micro-macro, agency-structure and Americanization theories, Ritzer also reveals to students the po |
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Print version record |
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Credit cards -- Social aspects -- United States
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Credit cards -- Social aspects
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Consumer credit -- United States
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Consumer credit
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Credit cards -- Social aspects
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781452246666 |
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1452246661 |
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