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The community concept has a long history and a prominent place in sociological thinking, yet remains a contentious concept. This e-book explores the diversity of current research on community and consumption, investigating, for example, imagined communities, consumption as community action and, conversely, the limitations of the notion of community

"This book provides a clear and wide-ranging overview of consumption as a sociological concept. Arguing that consumption is both an unavoidable part of life and an ongoing dialectical process, it gives a critical assessment of a range of theoretical approaches to the study of consumption and the possibilities these frameworks can offer. Consumption is something we all do. It is not just another word for shopping. When we eat and drink, or when we read a book or watch TV, or visit an art gallery or spend an evening in a pub, we are consuming. There is not 'a world of consumption' that some of us do not enter. We are all consumers and consumption must be regarded as an important sociological concept as a result. Consumption is also connected to notions of 'agency' - what people do, rather than what is done to them or made available to them for their doings. Before the critical focus on consumption, it was assumed that the meaning and use of things was dictated by how they were produced or by their simple mute materiality. Focusing on consumption challenges this way of thinking: rather than the mute and predictable end point of production, it is rethought as an activity, a process, something we do that involves use and meaning. It is how most of us intervene in culture. This thought-provoking yet accessible book offers a valuable introduction of the concept of consumption for researchers and undergraduate and postgraduate students in a range of fields within the humanities and social sciences, including sociology, history, anthropology, English, media and cultural studies"--

13 Materializing the Spiritual Investigating the Role of Marketplace in Creating Opportunities for the Consumption of Spiritual Experience Richard Kedzior14 Consuming the Mists and Myths of Avalon A Case Study of Pilgrimage in Glastonbury Linda Scott and Pauline Maclaran; Part V Issues of Method and Representation; 15 Refl ections of a Scape Artist Discerning Scapus in Contemporary Worlds John F. Sherry, Jr; 16 Spirituality as Introspection and Introspection as Spirituality in Consumer Research Stephen Goul

pt. I. Theoretical and methodological perspectives on consumption -- part II. Consumers and markets : introduction -- part III. Global challenges in consumption : introduction -- part IV. Politics and policies of consumption : introduction -- part V. Consumption and social divisions : introduction -- part VI. Contested consumption : introduction -- part VII. Culture, media and consumption : introduction

This paper studies implementation of the social optimum in a model of habit formation. We consider taxes that address inefciencies due to negative consumption externalities, imperfect competition, and self-control problems. Our contributions are to: i) account for producers market power; and ii) require implementation to be robust and time consistent. Together, these features can imply signifcantly lower taxes. We provide a general characterization of the optimal tax rule and illustrate it with two examples. dynamic externalities, internalities, addiction, optimal taxation, time consistent implementation

A wide-ranging interdisciplinary study of the relations between work, consumption and capitalism. This engaging and accessible text draws on research to explore the multiple fields of work that make consumption possible, compelling students to evaluate the role of consumption in global capitalism and question how consumption is made possible.

Defence date: 26 March 2007 ; Examining board: Prof. Giancarlo Corsetti, EUI, Supervisor ; Prof. Morten Ravn, EUI ; Dr. Jeffrey Campbell, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago ; Prof. Roel Beetsma, University of Amsterdam ; There is little doubt that fiscal policy plays an important role in business cycle fluctuations; however, the ability of fiscal policy measure to work as a countercyclical stimulus has recently been questioned (see Taylor, 2000), in light of the efficiency and transparency of monetary policy interventions. Far from postulating a definitive answer to the debate, the objective of this dissertation is to contribute to a better understanding of the transmission mechanism of fiscal policy shocks, through their interaction with the consumption behaviour of private agents. The fundamental contribution of this thesis is the introduction of different forms of households' heterogeneity in the analysis of the effects of government expenditure shocks and tax cuts.

1. A limited market -- 2. The failure of consumption -- 3. The balance of spending and saving -- 4. The psychology of trade fluctuations -- 5. Surplus income the cause of fluctuations -- 6. Wage reduction as remedy for depression -- 7. Credit as a factor in fluctuations -- 8. The Douglas theory -- 9. Replies to criticism -- 10. A summary.