Consumer Culture, Identity and Well-Being : The Search for the 'Good Life' and the 'Body Perfect' Guardian First Book Award Nominee (2011) Roll of Thunder Hear My

Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry follows a feisty African-American girl - Cassie Logan - as she grows up in Mississippi during the Great Depression and learns the shocking realities of racism

Beginning with the arbitrary division of Korea in 1945 and ending two months after the shaky armistice that halted combat in the Korean War

Perlmutter Emeritus Professor of Social Architecture and Management The Wharton School

With lucid prose

academic politics

Consumer Culture, Identity and Well-Being : The Search for the 'Good Life' and the 'Body Perfect' Guardian First Book Award Nominee (2011) Roll of Thunder Hear MyAdvertising, materialism and consumption are central aspects of contemporary Western culture. We are bombarded with idealised images of the perfect body, desirable consumer goods, and affluent lifestyles, yet psychology is only just beginning to take account of the profound influence these consumer culture ideals have on individuals sense of identity and worth. Consumer Culture, Identity, and Well Being documents the negative psychological impact