Anthropologist Theologian

消費社會（I）

Consumer Society: A Graduate Seminar（I）

交大社文所Fall 2003

週三：6:30-9:30pm

授課：朱元鴻

消費社會琳瑯滿目的現象吸引了許多文化研究的學生，然而相關議題的研究產出卻容易流於令人困窘的膚淺與支離。本課程將廣泛介紹有關消費社會的重要理論觀點與分析概念，並分別研讀社會學、文化人類學以及文化史有關消費社會的經典研究。目的在培養深入探討消費社會的認知觀點與分析能力。本課程計七個子題，分為上下兩個學期。下學期子題六、七，可視為Pierre Bourdieu與Jean Baudrillard關於消費社會的經典著作專題研討。兩學期構成完整的研究訓練課程，但亦可分別選修。

COURSE PLAN

9/10
Course Introduction

Topic 1: Consumption as a Category of Non-work


9/17 Play

John Huizinga, Homo Ludens: Study of the Play Element in Culture, pp.1-27.

Roger Caillois, Man, Play, and Games, pp.3-67.

Clifford Geertz, “Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight,” in The Interpretation of Cultures, pp.412-453.

9/24 Festival

Mikhail Bakhtin, “Popular-Festive Forms,” in Rabelais and His World, pp.196-277.

Peter Burke, “The World of Carnival,” in Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe, pp.178-204.

10/1 Sacrifice, War, Ostentatious Waste

Georges Bataille, The Accursed Share vol.1, pp.9-77, 129-142.

Georges Bataille, Theory of Religion, pp.43-61, 87-104.

Topic 2: Leisure: The Consumption of Unproductive Time


10/8 Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class, pp.1-187.

T.W. Adorno, “Veblen’s Attack on Culture,” in Prisms, pp.73-94.

10/15 T.W. Adorno, “Free Time,” in The Culture Industry, pp.162-170.

Siegfried Kracauer, “Boredom” in B. Highmore (ed.) The Everyday Life Reader, pp.301-4.

Norbert Elias and Eric Dunning, “The Quest for Excitement in Leisure,” and “Leisure in the Spare-time Spectrum,” in Quest for Excitement, pp.63-125.

加藤秀俊，餘暇社會學，遠流。

繳交評論一，內容涵蓋Topics 1 & 2

Topic 3: Consumer Culture and Commodity Aesthetics

消費社會（II）

Consumer Society

Spring 2004
交通大學社會與文化研究所

授課：朱元鴻 週三：6:30-9:30pm


2/18 Course Introduction

Topic 6: Consumption that Stratifies: Life-style and Taste


2/25 Bourdieu, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste, pp.1-96.

3/3 Bourdieu, Distinction, pp.97-256.

3/10 Bourdieu, Distinction, pp.257-396.

3/17 Bourdieu, Distinction, pp.397-500.

繳交評論五，內容涵蓋Topic 6

Topic 7: Consumption that Signifies: System and Signs


3/24 Roland Barthes, “Toward a Psychosociology of Contemporary Food

Consumption,” in C. Counihan and P. Van Esterik (eds.)

Food And Culture, pp.20-27.

Henri Lefebvre, “The Bureaucratic Society of Controlled Consumption,” in

Everyday Life in the Modern World, pp.68-109.

3/31 Baudrillard, The System of Objects, pp.3-106.

4/7 Baudrillard, The System of Objects, pp.107-205.

4/14 Baudrillard, Consumer Society, pp.1-98.

4/21 Baudrillard, Consumer Society, pp.99-196.

4/28 Baudrillard, For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign, pp.5-101.

5/5 Baudrillard, For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign, pp.102-212.

5/12 Baudrillard, Symbolic Exchange and Death, pp.1-124.

5/19 Baudrillard, Symbolic Exchange and Death, pp.125-242.

Coda: Shop the World, Tour into the Future

5/26 Mike Featherstone, Consumer Culture and Postmodernism, pp.95-111.

Margaret Crawford, “The World in a Shopping Mall,” in M. Sorkin (ed.)

Variations on a Theme Park, pp.3-30.

Dennis R. Judd and Susan S. Fainsein (eds.) The Tourist City, pp.1-70

6/2 Proposal Presentation and Discussion

繳交評論六，內容涵蓋Topics 7, Coda

6/9 Proposal Presentation and Discussion, PARTY!!

課程要求

課堂引言和討論參與佔學期成績40%。兩篇子題單元評論，每篇約五千字，各佔學期成績15%，一篇學期報告，約一萬字，佔學期成績30%。學期報告綜合（兩）學期課程的訓練，可採三種形式：（i）深入理論議題的主題式探討（ii）特定經驗議題進行理論性分析的研究報告 （iii）以理論分析觀點界定經驗現象與研究方法的研究計畫。


10/22 T.W. Adorno, The Culture Industry: Selected essays on Mass Culture, pp.53-113, 136-161.

Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” in Illumination, pp.217-251.

Leo Lowenthal, “The Triumph of Mass Idols,” in Literature, Popular Culture, and Society, pp.109-136.

10/29 Wolfgang Fritz Haug, Critique of Commodity Aesthetics: Appearance, Sexuality and Advertising in Capitalist Society.

11/5 Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life, pp.xi-xxiv.

Andre Gorz, “Commodity Activities” in Critique of Economic Reason, pp.135-152.

Paul Willis, “Symbolic Creativity,” in B. Highmore (ed.) The Everyday Life Reader, pp.282-292.

繳交評論二，內容涵蓋Topic 3

Topic 4: Anthropology of Consumption and the Social Life of Things


11/12 Mary Douglas and Baron Isherwood, The World of Goods, pp.1-92.

11/19 Marshall Sahlins, “La Pensee Bourgeoise” and “Conclusion: Utility and the Cultural Order,” in Culture and Practical Reason, pp.166-221.

星野克美等著，符號社會的消費，遠流。

11/26 Arjun Appadurai, The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective, pp.3-62.

Arjun Appadurai, “Consumption, Duration and History,” in Modernity At Large, pp.66-85.

12/3 運動會停課 繳交評論三，內容涵蓋Topic 4

Topic 5: The Birth of Consumer Societies: Studies in Cultural History


12/10 Neil McKendrick, John Brewer and J. H. Plumb, The Birth of a Consumer Society: The Commercialization of Eighteenth-Century England, pp.9-99; 265-313.

12/17 Daniel Roche, A History of Everyday Things: The Birth of Consumption in France, 1600-1800, pp.1-8; 106-255.

12/24 Craig Clunas, Superfluous Things: Material Culture and Social Status in Early Modern China.

12/31 Party!!

1/7 期末考停課 繳交評論四，內容涵蓋Topic 5

課程要求

課堂引言與討論參與佔學期成績40%。四篇子題單元評論，每篇約五千字，各佔學期成績15%。