This collection of high quality, largely previously published essays,
analyses a range of controversies in the field of the sociology of
culture and consumption. Campbell made a major contribution to the
development of this field and he has a clear and coherent theoretical
position which he employs to comment on interesting disputes among
scholars seeking to understand consumer culture.
Containing a brand new expansive essay reflecting on consumption in the
age of a pandemic and drawing out some of the conceptual and practical
implications of the relationship between wants and needs, science and
norms, this synthesis will be an invaluable resource for students and
researchers of consumption, consumer and cultural sociology.