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Consumption Practices and Middle-Class Consciousness among Socially Aware Shoppers in Atlanta

Tabor, Desiree Lynn
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With the postmodern prevalence of shopping as both a recreational and subsistence activity, social class identity is increasingly constituted around access to the landscape of consumption. U.S. middle-class identity is normalized in commercial spaces and the exclusion of the lower-class from these spaces perpetuates wider social disparities. For socially aware members of the middle-class, distinction may be achieved by selectively shopping throughout the metropolitan area with the goal of influencing corporate practices. Yet this distinction is not without cost as middle-class shoppers are prime targets of identity marketing schemes and of the neoliberal regime’s construction of consent. Through 15 self-proclaimed middle-class shoppers’ reported use of Atlanta’s postmodern landscape of consumption, this study focuses on performances of middle-classness and representations of commercialized spaces with the goal of furthering the anthropological understanding of class identity and urban space as heterogeneous.

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2006-06-09
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Postmodern Atlanta, Consumption practices, U.S. middle-class identity, Urban landscape of consumption
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Tabor, Desiree Lynn. 2006. "Consumption Practices and Middle-Class Consciousness among Socially Aware Shoppers in Atlanta." Georgia State University. https://doi.org/10.57709/1059164
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2011-09-13
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