CMNS 110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Conspicuous Consumption, Imitation, Conspicuous Leisure
7 Mar 2016
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Cmns 110 presentation by anna khomich november 5, 2015. You are what you buy: theories of the consumer m. paterson economic. Consumer and commodity as main components of the consumption process. Takes place in all phases of capitalism. Often founded on the myth of prelapsarian society. The rise of consumer society is often seen in negative terms as unnatural and disharmonious, causing the break down of healthy relations between producer and product. Karl marx considered consumption more in terms of eating, drinking and procreation than in sense of accommodating new cultural forms and symbolic acts. Focus on the symbolic side of consumption. Lower classes emulate trends of upper classes. Riches tend to be indicated by conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure conspicuous consumption - the purchase and display of expensive commodities. conspicuous leisure - living a life of leisure, learning and travel. Consumption is a marker of social status throughout the hierarchy.
