This book critically reviews recent social scientific investigations of consumption a
controversial topic with moral overtones and of popular public interest and political and
economic significance. The author explores how consumption affects personal identity and social
position developing a sociological analysis using theories of practice to account for everyday
consumption its role in the social order and its consequences for environmental
sustainability. The book offers a controversial analysis which explains consumption not in
terms of the purchasing of commodities but of the organization and coordination of daily
practices. Consumption will be of interest to scholars and students of sociology anthropology
geography cultural studies consumer research business studies and social theory.
