SOC110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Arlington National Cemetery, George Ritzer, Niagara Falls
Document Summary
Tourism and hyperconsumption: and souvenirs as part of their traveling experience. There"s no new connection between tourism and consumption. For a long time visitors have spent money visiting sights and purchasing trinkets. Sociologist george ritzer, however, has written that the limits between tourism. Consumption, once incidental to tourism, has become one of its major targets. Ritzer notes the degree to which giant malls have become dominant tourist. In canada the edmonton mall attracts more visitors than niagra falls; there are attractions to back up his argument and consumption have eroded more visitors to potomac mills in suburban washington than to arlington. As consumption has become more prominent that is, hyperconsumption entrepreneurs around the world have constructed what ritzer calls "consumer cathedrals" characterize trips to mega-shopping malls and other concentrations of retailers. He uses religious imagery because of the reverence with which people. Visiting them almost became like making a pilgrimage to a holy place.
