SOC393H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: The Affluent Society, International Inequality, Economic Security
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Consumer society lecture 8 rich and poor countries. People in different parts of the world have different buying patterns: that is because people in the world have different amounts of wealth. Also have different access to consumer goods. So to understand global consumer patterns, we need to understand the reasons for global inequality. Answer might explain how the world might continue to change: throughout the world, we see the spread of materialistic values and available goods: There is an exchange of goods and services in the global north. For expensive items like automobiles people prefer to buy goods made in global north. In some parts of the world traditional religious values turn people against goods from the global north. Yet everywhere we see evidence of cultural imperialism, hybridization (they are creating (hybrid cultures- mixes of existing cultures with western cultures) and the persistence of traditional values: glabraith"s the affluent society:
