Sociology 2172A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Consumer Debt, Consumerism, Gordon Gekko
16 Dec 2018
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Consumerism: our development into a consumer society is evident in our advertising, we are encouraged to buy new, generating waste and using up resources to make new products, our consumption patterns cannot be sustained. Advertisement purchase indebtedness alienation advertisement : alienation: the product didn"t do what it promised, the average american uses 30x the goods. Cars are positioned in the environment despite their pollution) Industrialization made products available to regular people that were previously only available to the upper classes. Human identity is no longer defined by what one does: gives a speech too many of us now worship self-indulgence and but by what one owns . Greed will save the usa! : host robin leach dreams money can buy , 1987 film, wall street, lifestyles of the rich and famous, end of the 1980s, gordon gekko, ex. The iphone is an example for all three: ex. Video to replace class on october 22 available in powerpoint https://uwo. kanopy. com/video/shop-til-you-drop-crisis-consumerism.
