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Sharon Zukin
is Broeklundian Professor of sociology at Brooklyn College and the
Graduate Center of the City University of New York. The author, most
recently, of Point of Purchase: How Shopping Changed American Culture
(Routledge, 2004), she won the C. Wright Mills Award for Landscapes
of Power: From Detroit to Disney World and writes broadly about cities,
culture, and the economy. Her earlier books include Loft Living and
The Cultures of Cities, and she co-edited After the World Trade Center:
Rethinking New York City. Born and raised in Philadelphia, she has
lived her entire adult life in New York.
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The Analysis of Everyday Life:
Looking at the Culture of Consumption
Thursday-Monday January
13-17, 2005
University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
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Consumption is a social, cultural, and economic process of
choosing goods, a process reflecting the opportunities and constraints
of modernity. In this class, students will study how services
are produced and who produces them; how we learn to consume;
and how we impose power on nature. To put this in context, field
trips will go to a fast food restaurant, Wal-Mart, and an oil
field.
University of Oklahoma undergraduates: This class qualifies
as upper division Gen Ed Social Science credit.
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The Class Reading List: (These books and articles supplied
by OSLEP)
* Fast Food, Fast Track: Immigrants, Big Business,
and the American Dream by Jennifer Parker Talwar
(2002)
* Point of Purchase: How Shopping Changed American
Culture by Sharon Zukin (20040
* Power Politics by Arundhati Roy
(2001)
* Media Unlimited by Todd Gitlin (2002)
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