The romantic ethic and the spirit of modern consumerism

Highly interdisciplinary and path-breaking book theorizing modern consumer society, its historical origins, and cultural context. Grapples with the complex sociological conundrum of the emergence of a consumer-oriented society in a Europe that once valued Weber's Protestant ethic . Updates one of the most widely cited works in sociology, especially in the sub-fields of sociology of culture, sociology of consumption, and sociological theory