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SOC250 - Culture, Consumption and Class in Local and Global Contexts/Lecture, Discussion

Focuses on political, cultural and ethnic aspects of consumption. Emphasizes how people and groups define themselves through symbols in consumer products. Examines the interplay between economic markets and cultural identities, local and global processes, and consumption and cultural strategies to discover the consumer subcultures. Students conduct a small ethnographic project on consumer pattern, product or culture. Ms. Bhachu/Offered every other year


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Parminder Bhachu, Ph.D. - Professor of Sociology


The course is also known by the following crosslisted code(s): COMM275
IDCE303

 

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