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The Experience Society is the first book to address the sociological significance of what has been described as an 'experience economy'. The book reflects upon the significance of a society that has arguably come to be defined by the nature of individualised personal experiences; characterised by a shift from the consumption of things to the consumption of those things as experiences. Snapchat, Airbnb, gaming, escape rooms, and Premier League football are all examples of the way in which contemporary capitalism synchronises the relationship between consumption and identity through personalised experience.
The book considers how it is that the consumer society packages our experience as 'citizens' of a consumer society, through experiential forms of commodification. It seeks to understand the cultural and political implications of a society in which the more we appear to be defined by our efforts to escape our everyday existence, the more we apparently become defined by it.
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Keywords
- Behavioural economics
- Business & Economics
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Consumer Behavior
- Business and Economics
- Capitalism
- Consumer behavior
- consumerism
- cultural theory
- Economics
- Economics, finance, business & management
- Experience Economy
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- Sociology
- Work and Labour
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