Sociology 2172A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Thorstein Veblen, Georg Simmel, Sweatshop
12 Oct 2016
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National governments might also stimulate the economy through encouraging consumption: e. g. President obama considered a buy american clause as a part of his plan for economic recovery. Consumption can be seen as good self expression, individual development, or a reward for hard work. Consumption can also be seen as bad wasteful, unethical, greed for material ownership, or superficial. Analyze consumption in terms of class relations (consumption production) Marx believed that consumption and production were dependant on one another: productive consumption or consumptive production , you cannot consume without production nor produce without consumption. Productive consumption: refers to consuming raw materials in production, e. g. When a producer makes a wool coat, they must consume wool, water, and coal. Consumptive production: refers to the consumption of produced goods. As well, the distinction between consumption and production: production creates the material (an external object for consumption, consumption creates the need (an internal object for production)
