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| | Consumerism: The Dazzling Dream |
 | | Consumerism fuels the destruction of the productive economy by supporting and encouraging the sale of the goods or services without examination by the purchaser of the quality, origin, environmental degradation or traditions of manufacture. | | | When we engage in consumerism we are engaged in chronic purchasing of new goods and services, with little, or no, attention to whether we need them or not, or to their durability, product origin or the environmental consequences of manufacture and disposal. | | | We spend our time working for 'things' and in the little time we have to relax, spend that time in front of the television where we watch mediocre filler programs inserted in between ever-more-spectacular commercials whose purpose is to create more desire for more things - that we have to work longer hours to purchase. |
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http://www.dazzling-dreams.net
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| | Ethical consumerism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Ethical consumerism (or Consumarchy) is buying things that are made ethically by companies that act ethically. | | | Thanks to consumarchy, consumers have the choice of combining, in their purchasing decisions, the proximate attributes of goods (e.g., their price or manufacturing quality) with their peripheral attributes (e.g., the conditions under which they are produced). | | | 'Ethical consumerism' does not distinguish between the pursuit of self-interest and the consideration of other people's interests in one's purchasing decisions. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_purchasing
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| | World History Connected Vol. 1 No. 2 Peter Stearns: Teaching Consumerism in World History |
| | Consumerism can be seen as a set of institutions and practices--particular kinds of stores, sales gimmicks, advertisements, even public policies. | | | Studying consumerism helps connect students to wider issues in historical analysis and global understanding because it is something they themselves live. | | | More work is clearly needed on precise aspects of comparison, such as variations in the nature, as well as the timing, of department stores, variations (if any) in rates of kleptomania, variations in political and cultural hostility to consumerism, and so on. |
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http://worldhistoryconnected.press.uiuc.edu/1.2/stearns.html
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| | How Consumerism Affects Society, Our Economy and the Environment |
| | Consumerism is economically manifested in the chronic purchasing of new goods and services, with little attention to their true need, durability, product origin or the environmental consequences of manufacture and disposal. | | | The same blind, unquestioning acceptance of consumerism will allow the export of even these service jobs if the companies that attempt this are not challenged by consumers. | | | The nationwide loss of manufacturing jobs leads to a corresponding growth in unemployment and the number of welfare recipients, less personal wealth, a shrinking tax base, fewer public services, and greater public and private debt, hopelessness for job seekers and a growing negative balance of trade. |
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http://www.verdant.net/society.htm
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| | John Paul II and the Problem of Consumerism |
| | What is needed therefore is an examination of the relationship between the free economy as it is currently lived out and the culture of consumerism. | | | The theological defense of capitalism has always maintained that the economy benefits from virtuous behavior (e.g., hard work, farsightedness, intelligent creativity, self-discipline, professional competence, fair treatment of customers and workers, truthfulness in advertising); might consumerism be the one vice from which capitalism benefits? | | | For example, many economic-stimulation policies focus on encouraging greater consumer spending, especially on big-ticket items. |
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http://www.acton.org/publicat/randl/article.php?id=321
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| | Creating the Consumer - Global Issues |
| | Additionally however, consumerism by the wealthy is also at the expense of the poor around the world (the majority of people) which has enormous ramifications. | | | The documentary pointed out that this shaping of people’s choices and opinions came from the pressures and skills of big business, to which now even governments had to succumb to gain power. | | | They looked at the issue of consumerism and credit, mostly in Britain, and is summarized here: |
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http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Consumption/Rise.asp
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| | The Culture of Consumerism: A Catholic and Personalist Critique |
| | Consumerism, then, on this perspective is simply the necessary complement, from the viewpoint of consumption, to the capitalist market economy. | | | Section 3 provides an account of the concept of consumerism. | | | In this regard, Schindler argues that a free economy, the profit motive, economic freedom, and human creativity, which are all characteristics of a market economy, must be ordered to the proper end of love of God and neighbor. |
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http://www.acton.org/publicat/m_and_m/2002_fall/beabout.html
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| | Juliet Schor: The New Politics of Consumption |
| | Their sources of income have become increasingly erratic and inadequate, on account of employment instability, the proliferation of part-time jobs, and restrictions on welfare payments. | | | Trends in inequality also helped to create the new consumerism. | | | We use our income in four basic ways: private consumption, public consumption, private savings, and leisure. |
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http://www.bostonreview.net/BR24.3/schor.html
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| | CNN.com - Examining consumerism - Nov 27, 2005 |
| | Instruct each student to make a list of the items and services that he or she has purchased during the last month, as well as those that he or she plans to buy during the holiday season. | | | While students are listing their purchases on the board, help them to define the differences between essential items and non-essential items. | | | (CNN Student News) -- Your students will examine the extent to which consumerism impacts their lives. |
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http://www.cnn.com/rssclick/2005/EDUCATION/11/27/activity.consumerism?section=cnn_latest
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| | ENOUGH, ANTI-CONSUMERISM CAMPAIGN |
| | The reverse of this would be positive buying, where products are purchased because of their ethical soundness. | | | Examples would include fairly traded goods (giving exploited producers a higher price for their goods) and ethical investment. | | | Anyone interested in Ethical Consumption / Consumerism could contact Ethical Consumer Magazine at: ECRA Publishing Limited, 16 Nicholas Street, Manchester Ml 4EJ. |
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http://www.enough.org.uk/enough08.htm
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| | Zombies, Malls, and the Consumerism Debate: George Romero's Dawn of the Dead |
| | When I refer to consumerism in this article, I mean primarily of the system of values surrounding public, rather than private or domestic, consumption. | | | But however joyous and liberating these "shopping scenes" may be for the characters, Romero's script emphasizes the economic exclusivity of consumerism. | | | Dawn of the Dead contains a symbolic corrective to this critical tendency to focus on "consuming passions" at the expense of critical considerations of production. |
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http://www.americanpopularculture.com/journal/articles/fall_2002/harper.htm
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| | Volunteer Now! |
| | European spending on ice cream alone would pay for water and sanitation for everyone in the world, with $2 billion left over (see Global Priorities chart). | | | Due to globalization, retailers and super-label firms no longer make their products themselves. | | | What is the relationship between globalization and consumerism? |
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http://volunteernow.ca/take_action/issues_consumerism.htm
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| | MacKiDo/Thought/Consumerism |
| | There was (and is) a cost to this irresponsible consumerism. | | | The High Cost of Tyrants and Irresponsible Consumerism | | | Consumers, and businesses for that matter, bought up cheap, trouble-prone PCs by the millions creating a huge industry of "Windows" support books, "certified" technicians, and costly layers of administrators and support techs, which ultimately accelerated Gates' arrogant dictatorial position he is in today. |
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| | THEOOZE - Articles: Viewing Article |
| | I don't define "consumerism" as the "buying and selling of things." From this definition, we're all consumerists and the only issue is to severely limit our buying and selling so that we have lots of money left over to give to the poor (or some other cause). | | | The assumption for the former being that anything that involves a fee is pro-consumerist. | | | The problem with consumerism isn't that I find buying and selling things distasteful. |
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http://www.theooze.com/articles/article.cfm?id=1114
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| | Philosophy of ethical consumerism |
| | As the GM food debate has shown, when profits are on the line companies change their ways. | | | Often people feel helpless in the face of global issues such as environmental destruction and Third World exploitation, but ethical consumerism can be a driving force for change. | | | Ethical consumerism is all about empowering the consumer. |
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http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/philosophy/philosophy.htm
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| | Spiritual Materialism and the Sacraments of Consumerism |
| | The energy and vitality they once gave to the party was now directed towards the stock market and figures in accounting books. | | | Spiritual Materialism and the Sacraments of Consumerism: A View from Thailand | | | One reason that consumerism has power is due to the set of (seemingly rational) ideas, which say that happiness comes from consuming, and that the more one consumes, the more happiness there is. At the same time, this set of ideas holds that all problems have material solutions. |
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| | On: Consumerism |
| | We tend to spend billions on material things, help others far away, and ignore the poverty that exists in our own country. | | | By placing so much emphasis on economics, important only to the corporations who profit, simple minded consumers have permitted our government to place corporate interests above people. | | | Consumerism effects our attitudes towards important social issues, government, and the environment. |
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http://www.hike-2000.com/p2c.htm
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| | In the Name of Allah - Greed for More and More |
| | They claim impoverished individuals and nations will eventually attain a standard of living similar to the wealthy in wealthier nations by becoming consumers and consumer societies. | | | How can growing consumerism be sustained in a world of finite resources? | | | Consumerism is arguably one of the defining features of societies in the global North. |
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| | Consumerism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Impulse buyers who cannot resist spending money are commonly termed shopaholics. | | | Marx argued that the capitalist economy leads to the fetishization of goods and services, and the devaluing of the intrinsic worth of a good or service, replaced by a focus on its price in the market. | | | In many critical contexts, consumerism is used to describe the tendency of people to identify strongly with products or services they consume, especially those with commercial brand names and obvious status-enhancing appeal, e.g. |
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| | Consumerism |
| | The ultimate indicator of consumerism is the inbalance in the usage of the worlds resources. | | | One World.Net-Here is a look at consumerism from a global perspective. | | | Overcoming Consumerism Citizen Activist Web SiteGives a view of what the world would be like without consumerism, the effects on economy, environment and society. |
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http://www.lfelem.lfc.edu/resources/health/consumerism.html
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| | Consumerism and the New Capitalism |
| | More than to simply insure a profit, consumerism is the means by which the New Capitalism maintains control of its buying public. | | | Consumerism is the myth that the individual will be gratified and integrated by consuming. | | | No longer does the purchase have to be justified by purpose. |
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| | Behind Consumption and Consumerism - Global Issues |
| | So much labor redundancy cannot be tolerated, and hence the answer is therefore to share the remaining productive jobs, which means reducing the workweek! | | | How are the products and resources we consume actually produced? | | | However, increasingly, there are important issues around consumerism that need to be understood. |
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| | Primary Sources |
| | This site prepared to accompany a PBS special on consumerism includes a timeline, "Consuming Moments in American History," which helps put this topic in context. | | | Terms and Conditions of Use, Privacy Statement, and Trademark Information |
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| | As Consumerism Spreads, Earth Suffers, Study Says |
| | But now developing countries are catching up rapidly, to the detriment of the environment, health, and happiness, according to the Worldwatch Institute in its annual report, State of the World 2004. | | | Perfectly timed after the excesses of the holiday season, the report put out by the Washington, D.C.-based research organization focuses this year on consumerism run amuck. |
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/01/0111_040112_consumerism.html
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| | Overcoming Consumerism Citizen-Activist's Anti-Consumerism site |
| | How Consumerism affects society, the economy and environment. | | | Consumerism is a pattern of behavior that helps to destroy our environment, personal financial health, the common good of individuals and human institutions. | | | A model for the economically disenfranchised American who can profit from |
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| | Leithart.com Consumerism |
| | How is consumerism or the consumer society different from anything else? | | | The central insight required is the realization that individuals do not so much seek satisfaction from products, as pleasure from the self-illusory experiences which they construct from their associated meanings. | | | Consumerism is a popular category of analysis, but what exactly does it mean? |
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| | Consumerism: Environment at Canadian Content |
| | Puts anticonsumerism in the context of "green consumerism" and "ethical consumerism". | | | Government here is thus intentionally sclerotic, but, given the demands of 21st-century consumerism, when Americans want their government to act, they want it to do so immediately. | | | In terms of the rather fantastical cult of consumerism we term an economy, you`re right in stating that the notion of an economy based |
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| | This Magazine: The Rebel Sell |
| | If we were really worried about advertising, for example, it would be easy to strike a devastating blow against the “brand bullies” with a simple change in the tax code. | | | The idea is so foreign, so completely the opposite of what we are used to being told, that many people simply can’t get their head around it. | | | Consumerism is what emerges when we are duped into having desires that we would not normally have. |
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http://www.thismagazine.ca/issues/2002/11/rebelsell.php
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| | Catholic Culture : Document Library : Christian Asceticism: Breaking Consumerism's Destructive Hold |
| | Consumerism's Instability: Loss of time, Satisfaction, and Security | | | Given the limitations of my training, I cannot provide an economic analysis of consumerism, but must approach it existentially, examining its effects from a philosophical and theological perspective. | | | One of the dominant complaints expressed by my parishioners—a complaint which spiritual counseling has generally confirmed to be real—is their lack of time. |
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http://www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=4388
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| | PlanetPapers - The Myth of Consumerism |
| | The lesson they teach is: your life can be better with these products or, put another way, you can be a better person with these products. | | | Even Good Samaritan ads, like in the Chevron example, are tainted with the greedy intentions of the company. | | | Finally, although religion does tend to portray sex as taboo, consumerism tends to cash in on this attitude by portraying it as something scary, as in the PalmPilot example; the ads seem to act like the only way to get sex is by buying their products. |
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| | Technorati Tag: consumerism |
| | Become a member to save searches in a Watchlist. | | | Wired this month has a positively green feature on ethical consumerism and the role of technology and commercialism in bringing about a sea-change in... | | | May 15th, 2006 Free calling within the US and Canada until the end of 2006 |
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http://technorati.com/tag/consumerism
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| | CONSUMERISM |
| | The following list is to aid you in finding relevant educational resources on the World Wide Web on Consumerism. | | | Environmental costs of Consumerism How does consumerism affect the environment? | | | Some private sources of consumer health information Deparment of Health and Human Services Some private sources of consumer health information Ask Noah about Health offers information about AIDS, canc... |
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http://www.lib.upm.edu.my/iiscon.html
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| | No. 346: The New Consumerism |
| | What's less clear is whether we've become fluent enough in the language of sale and ownership to become free buyers. | | | It's easy to stamp consumerism as pure folly. | | | But I don't think it is. We throw a thousand inventions up in the air to sample and to savor. |
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http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi346.htm
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| | hedgeblog |
| | the little hedgehog said about Barry & consumerism & pinko liberal | | | I haven't uploaded anything for sale yet but there's also a nifty rss feed so you can subscribe to it on Bloglines or some other rss feed aggregator and see when I do. | | | the little hedgehog said about consumerism & knitty |
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http://www.egeltje.org/archives/cat_consumerism.php
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| | Resurgence: Consumerism Consumes by Jay Griffiths |
| | Consumerism consumes; it is a shoplifter, stealing meanings. | | | Not one of these things belonged to these manufacturers, but consumerism has consumed them, and then has persuaded society to buy them back, and to pay, furthermore, through the neause. | | | Consumerism consumes colours to sell banks: Barclays-blue and Lloyds- green. |
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http://www.resurgence.org/resurgence/articles/griffiths.htm
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| | * Consumer Angst |
| | Proactive consumerism (hereinafter PC) uses advertising to create markets for products that have no natural market. | | | Once advertising has delivered the product into your hands, other aspects of consumerism then come into play. | | | The second change was the introduction of graphical environments such as Windows, which first required a great deal more computer power than its predecessors, and eventually obsoleted all but the most powerful systems. |
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http://www.arachnoid.com/lutusp/consumerangst.html
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| | Truth: The First Casualty of Postmodern Consumerism |
| | Postmodern consumerism is characterized by the growth of advertising and marketing, large-scale efforts to generate and manipulate markets, and is an active process celebrated as pleasure, and a new source by which individuals construct their identities. | | | Consumerism is kindled not when needs for specific objects are created and consumed, but rather when the need to need, the desire to desire is manifested. | | | Instead of consuming goods themselves, we consume the meaning of goods as constructed through advertising and display. |
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http://campus.houghton.edu/orgs/acad_dean/Jessup99_TRUTH.htm
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| | The philosophy of anti-consumerism |
| | Using "sneakers" as an example of overt consumerism is not a good one. | | | The society that we live in now is so geared to spending and mass consumerism it is very difficult, even for me, who realised the negative effects of consumerism at a young age, to reject. | | | How about instead of saying anticonsumerism, we just just use the phrase responsible consumerism, then no one has to be a hipocrate. |
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http://www.sustainableenterprises.com/Planet/anticonsumer.htm
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| | Consumerism and its discontents |
| | Even if some materialists swim through life with little distress, however, consumerism carries larger costs that are worth worrying about, others say. | | | Indeed, consumerism is an example of an area where psychology needs to stretch from its focus on the individual and examine the wider impact of the phenomenon, Kanner believes. | | | To that end, he and others are beginning to study links between materialistic values and attitudes toward the environment, and to write about the way consumerism has come to affect our collective psyche. |
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http://www.apa.org/monitor/jun04/discontents.html
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| | Eco-Justice Working Group -- Consumerism |
| | Consumerism identifies a lifestyle in which a large number of individuals obtain more than is needed, more than is necessary for fulfillment, and more than God's Earth can sustain. | | | To find out more about responsible purchasing or consumerism, check out some of the organizations listed below. | | | What We Can Do We can take action to live gently on God's Earth by making good purchasing and lifestyle decisions. |
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http://www.nccecojustice.org/consumehome.htm
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| | When Enough is Enough, Sojourners Magazine/May 2005 |
| | If the consumer and the inert thing were left staring at each other across the store aisle, consumption would not keep pace with production. | | | Insofar as an item obtained brings a temporary halt to desire, it becomes undesirable. | | | Consumerism is a spiritual attitude that is deeply entangled with changes since the Industrial Revolution in the way goods are produced. |
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http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=magazine.article&issue=soj0505&article=050510
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| | health consumerism |
| | Consumer empowerment means that people take charge of their health by maintaining wellness, practicing prevention and learning all they can about the health care system. | | | If people are going to be successful in this environment, they must take more responsibility for their care whether they are ready to or not. | | | Reading the articles in our Health Consumerism Center is the first step for many. |
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http://www.seekwellness.com/consumerism
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| | Consumerism |
| | The word therefore means television out look, where the word has been exaggerated to show Dawe’s criticism of consumerism. | | | This allows the audience to relate to Dawes perspective of consumerism and the image he is creating. | | | The general public feels shopping and consuming a necessity to life. |
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| | Anti-consumerism activism |
| | Undoubtedly there isn't a day when you either do not buy or sell something. | | | Of particular note, say the authors of an article in the December 2004 issue of the Journal of Consumer Research, is the idea of consumption above and beyond the call of need. | | | Consumerism and consumption has become deeply embedded and, in fact, a defining part of the global--and particularly American--social fabric. |
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http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-01/uocp-aa010705.php
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| | USATODAY.com - 'Jennifer' satirizes our consumerism |
| | Not only does Jennifer Government satirize consumerism and marketing in America, it challenges its characters and drives them to find their own solution to the chaos, a gem all its own. | | | Imagine a free-market world run by American corporations and greedy CEOs, a society that thrives on advertising campaigns and marketing strategies. | | | You can slip into that nightmare by reading Max Barry's new novel, Jennifer Government, a compelling story about consumerism, greed and the people who try to survive in between. |
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http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/reviews/2003-01-29-jennifer_x.htm
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