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 Understanding consumption means not only understanding types of behaviour characteristic for purchasing or making gifts, nor pointing out how it can be damaging to others or turn into a tool to dominate and create distinctions or social exclusions, but it also refers to the way consumption creates social linkages and can take the form of a social analyst of peoples and their evolution be it either in France, Europe, China, USA, Africa or anywhere else.
There is no contemporary or historical society without the consumption.
That is why consumption is a strategic tool in order to understand the links between production, distribution, usage of goods and services, wastes of products and environment as well as the game of social differences between social groups, genres, generations and cultures.
Dominique Desjeux
NEW: Consommations and sociétés e-Journal (#6): two new articles on the shoes (by Russel Belk) and on the medecines (by Stéphanie Vincent)
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