Reflections on the Culture of the New and the Second Hand in Italy

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  • Francesca Setiffi University of Padua

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https://doi.org/10.13136/isr.v1i3.20

Keywords:

material culture, consumption, second-hand culture

Abstract

The purpose of this essay is to interpret changes in consumer society through the socio-anthropological concept of material culture. Consumption, which is an act of social communication, is expressed through the acquisition and circulation of goods. To consider material culture as an area of symbolic mediation means assuming that it is a means of interpreting social reality, where the notion of what we consider as ‘new’ or ‘used’ acquires a value transcending the substance of the goods, emphasizing, on the contrary, their symbolic meaning.

Author Biography

Francesca Setiffi, University of Padua

Department of Sociology

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Published

30.11.2011

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Setiffi, F. (2011). Reflections on the Culture of the New and the Second Hand in Italy. Italian Sociological Review, 1(3), 12. https://doi.org/10.13136/isr.v1i3.20

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Vol. 1 No. 3 (2011)

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