Stressing the variety of ways in which consumption is structured and organised through cultures and showing how these cultural technologies construct the person, the senses and the self, this book stands at the interface of the sociologies of culture and consumption. Arranged in two sections: Homes and Households, Places and Spaces; and Technologies of Consumption and Waste, the book includes chapters on youth consumption, cultures of the household, pornography, and waste and rubbish. This will be of interest to all those concerned with the study of culture and consumption whether from sociological, cultural or psychological perspectives.

CATRINA ALFEROFF Lecturer for the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Staffordshire University
KAY ARANDA Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy in the School of Health Studies at Croydon College
MICHAEL BULL Lecturer in the Department of Communications at Anglia Polytechnic University
TONY CHAPMAN Head of Sociology at the University of Teesside
JÖRG DÜRRSCHMIDT Lecturer in Sociology at the University of the West of England, Bristol
CRAIG GURNEY Lecturer in Housing at the Department of City and Regional Planning, University of Wales
BARBARA HARRISON Professor of Sociology and Head of Department at the University of East London
LYDIA MARTENS Lecturer in Sociology in the Department of Applied Social Science at the University of Stirling
CHRIS MARTIN Research Fellow at the Centre for Educational Sociology, University of Edinburgh
SHAUN MOORES Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh
MARTIN O'BRIEN Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Surrey
GILLIAN REYNOLDS Lecturer and Researcher at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Staffordshire University
RACHEL THOMSON Senior Research Fellow in the School of Education, Politics and Social Science, South Bank University, London
MARK THORPE Research Fellow in the Department of Geography at University College London
ALAN WARDE Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University

List of Illustrations and Photographs List of Contributors Acknowledgements Consuming Cultures: Power and Resistance; J.Hearn and S.Roseneil SECTION I: HOMES AND HOUSEHOLDS, PLACES AND SPACES The 'Young Consumer' at Home: Dependence, Resistance and Autonomy; G.Jones and C.D.Martin 'We've Got Friends Who Live in Council Houses': Power and Resistance in Home Ownership; G.Gurney The Ideal Home Exhibition: an Analysis of Constraints and Conventions in Consumer Choice in British Homes; T.Chapman Power and Resistance Around the Dinner Table; L.Martens and A.Warde Marginalisation and Resistance Through the Prism of Retirement; M.Thorpe The 'Local' versus the 'Global'? - 'Individualized Milieux' in a complex 'Risk Society'. The Case of Organic Food Box Schemes in the South West; J.D¿rrschmidt SECTION II: TECHNOLOGIES OF CONSUMPTION AND WASTE Photography, Power and Resistance: the Case of Health and Medicine; B.Harrison and K.Aranda 'It was the Way We were Watching it': Young Men Negotiate Pornography; R.Thomson The Dialectics of Walking: Walkman Use and the Reconstruction of the Site of Experience; M.Bull The Mediated 'Interaction Order'; S.Moores Junk Mail and Consumer Freedom: Resistance, Transgression and Reward in the Panoptical Gaze; G.Reynolds and C.Alferoff Rubbish-Power: Towards a Sociology of the Rubbish Society; M.O'Brien Index