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Social Change and the Coming of Post-consumer Society

Theoretical Advances and Policy Implications
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Consumer society is an unquestionably complex social construct. However, after decades of unremitting dominance there are signs emerging that it is starting to falter, both as a coherent and durable system of social organization and as a strategy for societal advancement. Debates concerning how we can transition beyond present energy- and materials-intensive consumer society are beginning to gain greater salience. Social Change and the Coming of Post-Consumer Society aims to develop more complete appreciation of the relevant processes of social change and to identify effective interventions that could enable a transition to supersede consumer society. Bringing together leading interdisciplinary experts on social change, the book identifies and analyzes several ongoing small- and modest-scale social experiments. Possibilities for macro-scale change from the interlinked perspectives of culture, economics, finance, and governance are then explored. These contributions expose the systemic problems that are emblematic of the current condition of consumer society, specifically the unsustainability of prevailing consumption practices and lifestyles and the persistence of inequalities. These observations are summarized and extended in the final chapter of the book. This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of sustainable consumption, sustainability transitions, environmental sociology, and sustainable development.

Author Biography:

Maurie J. Cohen is Professor of Sustainability Studies and Director of the Program in Science, Technology and Society in the Department of Humanities at the New Jersey Institute of Technology , USA. Halina Szejnwald Brown is Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at Clark University and a Fellow at the Tellus Institute, USA. Philip J. Vergragt is Professor Emeritus of Technology Assessment at Delft University, the Netherlands, and currently a Fellow at the Tellus Institute and a Research Fellow at Clark University, USA.
Release date Australia
March 22nd, 2017
Audience
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Contributors
  • Edited by Halina Szejnwald Brown
  • Edited by Maurie Cohen
  • Edited by Philip Vergragt
Illustrations
11 Tables, black and white; 13 Line drawings, black and white; 24 Illustrations, black and white
Pages
246
ISBN-13
9781138642058
Product ID
26106075

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