106年第1學期-3146 Global Consumer Culture and Sustainable Consumption 課程資訊

教育目標

✴ Introduce anthropology. Students will be introduced to basic anthropological concepts including culture and social change, to better understand trends in global consumerism and to provide students with a more holistic appreciation of human diversity. ✴ Conduct cross-cultural analysis. Students will develop critical thinking skills by using cross-cultural analysis to understand consumer consumption in different cultures. This will allow students to develop a broader understanding of consumption in different cultures, and compare and contrast different means of production, consumption, and the meaning placed on commodities. ✴ Understand the consumer and producer relationship. Students will be able to identify the role consumers have in the global economy and the power they exert. They will also be able to link consumer cultures to processes of globalization and localization, while highlighting the economic and political implications consumer cultures have on social class, regionalism and nationalism. Students will be able to understand how commodities produce values and meanings to consumers. ✴ Understand the effects of a consumption society. Students will investigate and analyze whether current consumer cultures are sustainable. This analysis will examine the role consumption plays on our physical environment, including issues such as poverty,immigration, and morality.

基本資料

選修課，學分數：2-0
上課時間：五/9,10
修課班級：永續學程1,2
修課年級：年級以上
選課備註：

參考書目

Consumption and Its Consequences by Daniel Miller (978-0745661087)
Additional readings will be available on Canvas or on reserve at the library.

Supplemental Readings
Vinyl Leaves: Walt Disney World and America by Stephen Fjellmann
Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things by Alan Durning & John Ryan
Re-Made in Japan edited by Joseph Tobin
When Corporations Rule the World by David Korten
Consumer Culture and Modernity by Don Slater
Golden Arches East: McDonalds in East Asia edited by James Watson
The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective edited by Arjun Appadurai
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber