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Consumer Culture, Identity and Well-Being - The Search for the 'Good Life' and the 'Body Perfect' (Hardcover) Loot Price: R4,489
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Consumer Culture, Identity and Well-Being - The Search for the 'Good Life' and the 'Body Perfect'...

Consumer Culture, Identity and Well-Being - The Search for the 'Good Life' and the 'Body Perfect' (Hardcover)

Helga Dittmar; Series edited by Professor Rupert Brown

Series: European Monographs in Social Psychology

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Advertising, materialism and consumption are central aspects of contemporary Western culture. We are bombarded with idealised images of the perfect body, desirable consumer goods, and affluent lifestyles, yet psychology is only just beginning to take account of the profound influence these consumer culture ideals have on individuals' sense of identity and worth. This book documents the negative psychological impact consumer culture can have on how individuals view themselves and on their emotional welfare. It looks at the social psychological dimensions of having, buying and wanting material goods, as well as the pursuit of media-hyped appearance ideals. In particular, it focuses on: the purchasing of material goods as a means of expressing and seeking identity, and the negative consequences of this psychological buying motivations in conventional buying environments and on the Internet the unrealistic socio-cultural beauty ideals embodied by idealized models, which for women is typically expressed as ultra-thinness and for men as muscularity, and how this creates body dissatisfaction. Throughout, different approaches from social psychology are integrated, such as self-completion, self-discrepancy and value theory, to create a comprehensive theoretical framework for understanding the impact of internalising core consumer culture ideals on how individuals see themselves and the implications this has for their psychological and physical health. This will be of interest to anybody who wants to find out more about the psychological effects of living in modern consumer societies on children, adolescents, and adults. More specifically, it will be of interest to students and researchers insocial psychology, sociology, media studies, communication and other social sciences, as well as to psychologists, health workers, and practitioners interested in the topics of identity, consumption pathologies, body image, and body-related behaviors.

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Imprint: Psychology Press
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: European Monographs in Social Psychology
Release date: August 2007
First published: 2006
Authors: Helga Dittmar
Series editors: Professor Rupert Brown
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 978-1-84169-608-9
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Social, group or collective psychology
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LSN: 1-84169-608-0
Barcode: 9781841696089

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