Expressing America : A Critique of the Global Credit Card Society.

′A timely review of the spread of credit card society.... a useful analysis of contemporary culture and the impact of credit cards on society. It highlights the importance of subjecting to analysis the mundane, in order to shed light on the deeper realities of consumer capitalism′ - Management Learn...

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Author / Creator: Ritzer, George.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 1995.
Series:Sociology
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Local Note:Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1 - The Credit Card: Private Troubles and Public Issues
  • Chapter 2 - Socio-History of the Credit Card: We Probably won't Recognize the Credit Card Field by the End of the Century
  • Chapter 3 - Credit Card Debt: Beware the Plastic Loan Shark
  • Chapter 4 - Credit Card Fraud: Screw You, Mac-I Got Mine
  • Chapter 5 - Secrecy, Privacy, and Credit Cards: Who isn't in Their Files?
  • Chapter 6 - Credit Cards, Fast-Food Restaurants, and Rationalization: All You Need is 42 Digits to Make One Long-Distance Phone Call
  • Chapter 7 - An American Express: The Culture that Conquered the World
  • Appendix
  • Endnotes
  • Index.