Introduction: Consumption Matters: Stephen Edgell (University of Salford) and Kevin Hetherington (University of Keele). Part One: The Production of Consumption: . 1. Becoming a consumer of care: developing a sociological account of the 'new community care': John Baldock (University of Kent) and Clare Ungerson (University of Southampton). 2. Production, disbursement and consumption: the modes and modalities of goods and services: Keith Dowding (London School of Economics) and Patrick Dunleavy (London School of Economics). 3. Public nightmares and communitarian dreams: the crisis of the social in social welfare: John Clarke (Open University).

4. Producing consumption: women and the making of credit markets: Janet Ford (University of York) and Karen Rowlingson (University of Derby). 5. Consumption and class analysis: Rosemary Crompton (University of Leicester). Part Two: The Experience of Consumption: . 6. The enigma of Christmas: symbolic violence, compliant subjects and the flow of English kinship: Pnina Werbner (University of Keele). 7.

Consuming schooling: choice, commodity, gift and systems of exchange: Pat Allatt (University of Teeside). 8. Expelling future threats: some observations on the magical world of vitamins: Pasi Falk (University of Helsinki). 9.'Bastard' chicken or ghormeh-sabzi?: Iranian women guarding the health of the migrant family: Lynn Harbottle (University of Keele). 10. Consuming the past: Gaynor Bagnall (University of Salford). 11.

The consumption view of self: extension, exchange and identity: Rolland Munro (University of Keele). 12. Social class, consumption and the influence of Bourdieu: some critical issues: Brian Longhurst (University of Salford) and Mike Savage (University of Manchester). Afterword: the future of the sociology of consumption: Alan Warde (University of Lancaster). Notes on Contributors. Index.