Consumer Culture (KSK_284)
About Study Course
Objective
This study course offers an introduction to consumer culture from the viewpoint of social anthropology, as well as in the social sciences in general. Consumer culture is a particularly popular study object in the last decades, although various consumption patterns are observable both long in the past and outside the Western hemisphere. The goal of this study course is to get to know various patterns of consumption from different theoretical disciplines, as well as to introduce students to the most recent scholarship in the consumption studies.
Prerequisites
Academic English
Learning outcomes
1.Students have knowledge on the developments in the scholarship of consumption, as well as the most current trends in the field.
1.Students have the ability to critically examine, as well as analytically describe the consumption practices in the society.
1.Ability to describe and identify various consumption practices.
