SOC 1446 - CONSUMPTION & EVERYDAY LIFE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The course is composed of three interrelated blocs: 1. The Times of Consumption: Modernity. The rise of the 'new' bourgeois consumer at the turn of the 20th Century through Veblen, Simmel, and Benjamin, and the Frankfurt School. This period includes changes in the architectures of the spaces of consumption, including the Parisian arcades and early department stores. 2. How We Consume Now. We learn about the transformations of consumption practices that accelerate in the twenty-first century. This includes new ways of consuming and experiencing nature, consuming food; the production of certain types of consumer bodies in terms of race, class and gender; and the growth and effectiveness of retail psychology. 3. The Spaces of Consumption: Globalization. The consumer-citizen in the age of Globalization, including the global spread of malls; agro-food networks that provide sushi and McDonalds to cities around the world, and the rise of supply-chain cities to produce goods for global consumers.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Global Issues General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Social Science General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.

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