Technology in the Household: Looking Back, Looking Forward -- Technological Availability: Structural and Macro Factors -- Technology in the Household: Individual-Level Explanations -- Shop Till We Drop? -- Entertaining Ourselves to Death -- Reach Out and Touch Anyone, Everyone -- Buy Now, Pay Later: Financing the Future -- Technology and Consumer Behavior: Household, Managerial and Social Implications.
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Summary
Technology and Household Consumption is a comprehensive text that provides insights into technology's impact on consumer behavior and the household environment. Consumption and consumer behavior has become a very important subject of study that is now covered in many disciplines including family economics, culture studies, and feminist/women studies. In the first section, this book provides a historical perspective on how consumer behaviors have changed because of technology and how technology itself has changed.