TY  - BOOK
AU  - Berger, Arthur Asa
TI  - Shop til you drop: consumer behavior and american culture 
SN  - 9780742536913
U1  - 658.8342  
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Lanham
PB  - Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group Inc.
KW  - Consumer behavior-United states
KW  - Consumer behavior-social aspect-United States
KW  - Consumers preference-psychological aspects-United States
N1  - Table of content:
Chapter 1 Acknowledgments
Chapter 2 Preface
Chapter 3 1 What Are Consumer Cultures?
Chapter 4 2 Data on Consumer Cultures
Chapter 5 3 The Act of Consumption
Chapter 6 4 Perspectives on Consumption
Chapter 7 5 The Semiotics of Shopping
Chapter 8 6 Malls and the American Consumer Culture
Chapter 9 7 Tourism and Consumer Culture
Chapter 10 8 Buyer's Remorse
Chapter 11 References
[https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781461666226/Shop-til-You-Drop-Consumer-Behavior-and-American-Culture]
N2  - Reveals the many layers of consumer culture through analyzing malls, tourism, superstores, online shopping, marketing to children and "tweens," the consumer calendar, the distribution of wealth in the United States, and many other topics.
—Concise and accessible to all levels of students and general readers.
—Draws on perspectives from sociology, psychology, anthropology, religion, semiotics, and cultural studies and explains what it means to be a postmodern consumer culture.
—Filled with "Consumer Culture Factoid" boxes, illustrations by the author, and photos.
(https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781461666226/Shop-til-You-Drop-Consumer-Behavior-and-American-Culture)
ER  -