Consumerism, both as the mass consumption of commercial goods and as an ideology of the Chinese economy, has significantly shaped the lives of the ordinary Chinese since the end of the 1970s. Since the end of the 1970s, ‘mass consumption’...

1 Concerted action to make firms pursue the interests of consumers, even at the cost of shareholders’ incomes. Action can take the form of lobbying parliaments for legislation, protest marches and legal suits. In response to these campaigns, many...

A society based upon the assumption that human beings wish to acquire goods and commodities, and whose economy is based upon such a premise. As education is increasingly being regarded as a commodity, so the ideas of consumption are entering the...

A society which devotes a high proportion of its income to luxury goods and undertakes little saving. Only MARKET ECONOMIES have been prosperous enough to choose this lifestyle. See also: conspicuous...

Consumerism is the equating of personal happiness with the purchasing of material possessions and consumption. The term is often associated with criticisms of consumption starting with Karl Marx and Thorstein Veblen. In economics, consumerism can also...

Buy Nothing Day is getting a Jesus jolt. Performance artist Bill Talen assumes the persona of Reverend Billy, often accompanied by a gospel choir, to use the histrionics and cadences of a televangelist (think Jimmy Swaggart) in an anti-consumerism effort to convert people to his...

Cuba's official youth newspaper on Sunday reported an increase in sales of children's toys this year but warned against a rise in consumerism on the communist-run island.In a two-page spread, the Juventud Rebelde reported on the revival of "Three Kings Day," a Latin American tradition...

Pope Benedict XVI urged a solution to conflicts across the world, especially in the Middle East and Africa, in a Christmas Day address that included an appeal for the poor, the exploited, and all those who suffer."With deep apprehension I think, on this festive day,...

The Medium is the MASSAGE, by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore Annotated index for And You Thought Abercrombie & Fitch Was Pushing It?, by Jaime Wolf, The New York Times Magazine, April 23, 2006. A Abercrombie & Fitch (clothing manufacturer), 58 Adbusters (magazine), 61 Adult...

Provides an analysis of the consumer culture in America. Analyzes the problems of a consumer culture. Details the roots of increased need and loss of community.

Discusses the American consumer culture and the reality of a class society. As a reference, uses Gregory Mantsios's "Class in America (2000)" where four myths of class and equality is demonstrated through lifestyles of different class demonstrating the reality of class in America.

Analyzes the consumerism that has taken over the holiday spirt in modern society.