SOCSCI 2O03 Lecture 8: Lecture 8 Nov 7th.docx
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Lecture 8: consumerism con"t & prejudice and discrimination & mothers and sons introduced. The market is the invisible hand that guides and dictates to the economic institutions who then socially construct our society for us. This is unlike the way things used to be! Speaks to solidarity of item this item is stable, is bi4l has character, has patina. Eroded and was eclipsed by the fashion system: fashion system. Began in the time of the elizabethian courts. Judgement of status began to depend on timely display of goods and style: cutting edge items. Individual defined by what they are consuming in terms of style. Refers to all that stuff we have. Speaks to the fact that we can afford things that are recent and fashionable: and therefore that makes us somebody, children. No toys or child"s furniture made in canada in the elizabethian era no manufacturing companies here to do kids products all imported or homemade.