Organizing for Consumptive Leisure

Abstract

At various points throughout this book we have had a chance to reflect on one aspect or another of the vast contextual background against which consumption in the West occurs. Chapter 3 was the main locus of this interest. There we examined many of the personal and social conditions underlying the modern consumptive leisure experience. Conspicuous consumption was contextualized in this same manner in Chapter 2, while in Chapter 4 we looked briefly at the history of shopping and the relationship of gender and shopping, among other relevant social conditions. In fact, the theoretic approach of contextualizing leisure and consumption adopted in this book is evident on many of the pages of each chapter.