上海高校社会学E-研究院（上海大学）系列讲座
2014年 第21讲 总第354讲
题目：The Future of Consumer Society in the United States
美国消费（者）社会的未来：兼及与中国的比较
主讲人：Dr. Maurie J. Cohen
New Jersey Institute of Technology
时间：2014年11月11日（周二）10:00
地点：校本部B417
主办：社会学院
主讲人简介：Dr. Maurie J. Cohen is Associate Professor and Director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Associate Faculty Member with the Division of Global Affairs at Rutgers University, and Associate Fellow at the Tellus Institute. He is Editor of Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy (SSPP), an academic journal founded in 2004 by the United States Geological Survey, Conservation International, and ProQuest LLC, and co-founder and Executive Board Member of the Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative (SCORAI).
专长、学术成就：His books include Innovations in Sustainable Consumption: New Economics, Socio-technical Transitions and Social Practices (with Halina Brown and Philip Vergragt) and Exploring Sustainable Consumption: Environmental Policy and the Social Sciences (with Joseph Murphy). Dr. Cohen served last year as member of the Task Force on Sustainable Consumption and Green Development created under the auspices of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development.
讲座概要: Despite challenges and obstacles, consumer society in the United States has been ascendant for the past 100 years, and especially in the decades since 1945. It is now possible to discern salient evidence of erosion of this system of social organization due to demographic, economic, cultural, political, and environmental changes. A variety of incipient alternatives are emerging as households and institutions adapt to newly evolving circumstances and the notion of post-consumerism is beginning to attract attention as a focus for research. This presentation will review the history of consumer society in the United States and consider whether it is now experiencing a gradual demise. In particular, given the fracturing of the American middle class, a key question for consideration will be whether consumer society in the country can survive in the face of widespread changes in the demand conditions of mass consumption.
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