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  1. Expressing America
    A Critique of the Global Credit Card Society
    Author: Ritzer, Dr. George F.
    Published: 1995
    Publisher:  SAGE Publications, Thousand Oaks

    This innovative text focuses on an American icon, central to United States culture, that is rapidly becoming a global expression of prosperity - the credit card. George Ritzer explains what the credit card tells us, both good and bad, about the... more

     

    This innovative text focuses on an American icon, central to United States culture, that is rapidly becoming a global expression of prosperity - the credit card. George Ritzer explains what the credit card tells us, both good and bad, about the essence of the modern US and why and how the credit card is helping to transform much of the world. Drawing on the insights of both classic and contemporary social thinkers, including Georg Simmel, C Wright Mills, Karl Marx and Max Weber, as well as micro-macro, agency-structure and Americanization theories, Ritzer also reveals to students the po

     
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    Content information
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780803990449
    RVK Categories: LC 10610 ; MS 5560
    Series: The Pine Forge Press social science library
    Scope: Online-Ressource (259 p)
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    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 WorldAppendix; Endnotes; Index;

    Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web