SOSC 1140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: High Standard Manufacturing Company, John Berger, Consumerism
4 Feb 2015
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Recent stages of human culture pre-industrial age industrial culture media culture global capitalist consumer culture. Modern communicative media supports a particular way of life that boosts commodity consumption on a mass scale. Modern mass culture did not evolve naturally but is the product of intensive planning and design through advertising, marketing and value system changes to popular culture. The new order of consumer society was based on a pattern of. Creation and destruction" this refers both to commodities coming in and going out of fashion, and destruction of natural resources that is involved in mass production of commodities. Consumer culture dictates our desires and wants and tastes, our culture. Capitalism has been successful at creating comfort and luxury for some, but has not passed this benefit along in equal measure to all social classes. http://storyofstuff. org/movies/story-of-stuff: robbins, capitalism and the making of the consumer : Consumerism and the age of mass production > mass consumption.
