Globalization, Consumer Culture And Identity : The Middle Class in a Postmodern Society

Globalization Consumer Culture and Identity is a study of consumer culture touching on questions of globalization liberalization social change and the middle class Born out of an original empirical study of changing consumer habits of the middle class and their relationship to the new media culture it seeks to understand the nature of consumer culture and how it shapes identities within the middle class On the broader canvas the book engages with the sociological debate on the dialectics between the macro and the micro aspects of globalization mirrored in the paradoxical relation between the global and the local It explores the global spread of market culture and interrogates how the Indian middle class appropriates indigenizes negotiates andor resists new forms of production and consumptionMore specifically the book opens up an inquiry into the everyday practices of social life that unravels subjective orientations in constructing human trajectories The issue of identity is more pressing and contested than ever before in contemporary societies The book examines the manner in which consumer culture constructs identities of the middle class people Kerala the southernmost state of India known for its paradoxical forms of social development constitutes the specific locale of this sociological gazeThe book is one among the pioneering attempts at examining the micro-level ramifications and implications of globalization from a cultural perspective in the Indian context This will be a useful guide in the fields of development and culture  and studies on globalization gender  media business and marketing and a good source book for the academic scholarly and student community in social sciences mass media and communication 224 pp.…