Where Stuff Comes From: How Toasters, Toilets, Cars, Computers and Many Other Things Come To Be As They Are
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (705 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0415950422 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Harvey Molotch holds a joint appoint as Professor of Metropolitan Studies and Sociology at New York University and Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a former Visiting Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics. His book Urban Fortunes won the distinguished Scholarly Cont
"PRINTING ERROR" according to Jason. The first 160 odd pages or so have a printing error making it very difficult to read.. Richard Oliver said A must read. Harvey Molotch gets network thinking. More than that, he does it. In his book, "Where Stuff Comes From", he shows, with brilliant simplicity, the complex web of interactions that lie behind creation and production of the everyday stuff that surrounds us. This is a book that every thinking designer should read. Actually, i. Midwest Book Review said Why some designs remain the same and some are constantly changing. Where Stuff Comes From: How Toasters, Toilets, Cars, Computers, And Many Other Things Came To Be As They Are isn't just a review of invention history: Molotch spoke with product designs, marketers, and everyone involved in making everyday products part of our lives, surveying design options, the psychology behind consumer
. Molotch's paradigmatic toaster requires an electric socket, bread and butter or jam to be useful. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Publishers Weekly The complicated, dynamic relationships between inventor, society, corporation, regulator, shopkeeper, community, family and customer is terrifically laid out by UC Santa Barbara and New York University sociologist Molotch in this persuasive monograph. Myriad links, he argues, ultimately produce and constantly change what we want, buy, keep and throw away; thus, neither consumers nor producers are to be blamed for our numerous possessions, since these items and cons
We now see how corporations, designers, retailers, advertisers, and other middle-men influence what a thing can be and how it is made. Molotch takes us on a fascinating exploration into the worlds of technology, design, corporate and popular culture. The book is a meditation into the meaning of the stuff in our lives and what that stuff says about us.. We see the way goods link into ordinary life as well as vast systems of consumption, economic and political operation