SCORAI Colloquium Series on Consumption & Social Change

May 6, 2015: George Ritzer, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, author of The McDonaldization of Society, spoke on his theory of prosumption and “prosumer capitalism”. He argues that while prosumption implies democratization and empowerment, the new world of prosumption (including “smart” prosuming machines) has, to a large degree, been captured and … Read more

March 11, 2015: Dorothy Holland, Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and coauthor of Identity and Agency in Cultural Worlds and History in Person: Enduring Struggles, Contentious Practice, Intimate Identities, spoke about the complexity and significance of grassroots activism for a transition to a post-consumerist society. Dorothy Holland’s … Read more