The Oxford Handbook of Consumption

Frederick F. Wherry is a Professor of Sociology at Princeton University and Director of the Dignity and Debt Network. He served as the 2018 president of the Social Science History Association and past chair of both the Economic Sociology and the Consumers and Consumption Sections of the American Sociological Association. He is co-author of Credit Where It's Due: Rethinking Financial Citizenship, editor of the four-volume Sage Encyclopedia of Economics and Society, and the author or editor of six other books or volumes. He has served in an advisory capacity to the Boston Federal Reserve and the Lloyds Banking Group Center for Responsible Business.Ian Woodward earned his PhD in sociology at University of Queensland, Australia. He is Professor in the Department of Marketing and Management at University of Southern Denmark. A cultural sociologist, he has written extensively about consumption and material cultures, and everyday cosmopolitan ethics. His authored and co-authored books include The Sociology of Cosmopolitanism (2009), Understanding Material Culture (2007), Vinyl: The Analogue Record in the Digital Age (2015), and Labels: Making Independent Music (2019).

• Introduction: Situating Consumers and ConsumptionFrederick F. Wherry and Ian Woodward Part I: Key Contemporary Themes 1. The Social Embeddedness of MarketingStefan Schwarzkopf 2. The Sharing Economy Juliet B. Schor and Mehmet Cansoy 3. Prosumption: Contemporary Capitalism and the "New" Prosumer George Ritzer 4. Consumer Culture Theory Eric J. Arnould and Craig J. Thompson 5. A Sociological Critique and Reformulation of BrandsThomas C. O'Guinn, Albert M. Muñiz, Jr., and Erika Paulson 6. Relational Work and Consumption Nina Bandelj and Christopher W. Gibson 7. Meaningful Objects and Consumption Sophie Woodward 8. Bourdieu, Distinction, and Aesthetic Consumption Omar Lizardo Part II: Organizing Consumption 9. Taste, Legitimacy, and the Organization of Consumption Jennifer Smith Maguire 10. Cultural Markets and Consecration Marc Verboord 11. Emotions in Consumer Studies Eva Illouz and Yaara Benger Alaluf 12. Young People and Consumption: The Changing Nature of Youth Consumption in an Era of Uncertainty and Digital Experience Konstantinos Theodoridis and Steven Miles 13. Consumption as Production: Data and the Reproduction of Capitalist RelationsUlises A. Mejias and Nick Couldry Part III: Consumer Transactions, Relations, and Devices 14. Household Finances and Credit VisibilityFrederick F. Wherry 15. The Cultivation of Market Behaviors and Economic Decisions: Calculation, Qualculation, and Calqulation Revisited Franck Cochoy 16. Consumer Transactions: Consumer Banking Zsuzsanna Vargha 17. Consumer Credit SurveillanceAlya Guseva and Akos Rona-Tas Part IV: Inequality and Stratification 18. Omnivorousness, Distinction, or Both?Josée Johnston, Shyon Baumann, and Merin Oleschuk 19. The Development of Ethnoracial Market Segments: Lessons from the US Latino Media Market G. Cristina Mora 20. Race and Consumer Inequality Geraldine Rosa Henderson and Kathy Zhang 21. Fashion and Its Gendered Agendas Ashley Mears 22. Gentrification and Urban Inequality Richard E. Ocejo 23. Branding National Identity in an Unequal World Melissa Aronczyk Part V: Practices, Performances, and Identities 24. Subcultures and Consumption John W. Schouten 25. Taste, Sensation, and Skill and Skill in the Sociology of ConsumptionDavid Wright 26. Food Tastes Jennifer A. Jordan 27. Gender as a Critical Perspective in Marketing Practice Susan Dobscha and Gry Høngsmark-Knudsen 28. Consumer Cities, Scenes, and Ethnic restaurants Daniel Silver and Terry Nichols Clark Part VI: Reformulating Markets 29. Ethical Consumption Keith Brown 30. Affluence, Anti-Consumerism, and the Politics of ConsumptionKim Humphery 31. Linking Environmental Sustainability and ConsumptionAmanda M. Dewey and Dana R. Fisher