SA 316 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Late Modernity, Consumerism

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 316
• Professor: Robert Wyllie

Document Summary

First, the tourist syndrome is a metaphor for contemporary living in liquid modernity and second, tourism is referred to as a substitute satisfaction of a genuine need" (franklin, 2003: Liquid modernity means that the social order is mobile and lexible awaiting people"s way of construct- ing it (franklin, 2003: 205). Liquidity is a metaphor for neither ix space nor bind time" (bauman, 2000: 2). People change with transformation of state and society. Looseness: the irst characteristic refers to tourists not being from the places they visit. Tourists diferentiate physically, geographically and socially from locals. tourism is a temporal action and tourists do not com- mit to the places they visit or the people they meet. tourists do therefore not strive for ways of living together. Like people on ixed-termed projects, tourists know that they will leave and have little need for durable rules and regulations. A rite de passage consists of three phases: separation, limen" or margin and aggregation.