Sociology 2172A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: U.S. News & World Report, Demography Of The United States, Online Shopping

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 2172A/B
• Professor: Gale Cassidy

Document Summary

We sent our wives, husbands, children n grandparents out to work, just to pay for all the stuff we wanted needed to buy. The preoccupation with the acquisition of goods to satisfy needs through material things. Shopping addictions: buy things to fill the void in your life. When you go into a mall, you see feel good stuff. Online shopping is dangerous: case of a woman embezzled hundreds of racks bc she has a shopping addiction. David suziki: as long as we run the world on the economic system always trying to produce and sell more the environment will not survive, ad(cid:448)ertisi(cid:374)g has (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)e the e(cid:374)gi(cid:374)e that(cid:859)s fueli(cid:374)g our (cid:272)o(cid:374)su(cid:373)er so(cid:272)iety. Advertisement -> purchase -> indebtedness (cant save as much) -> alienation (the produ(cid:272)t did(cid:374)(cid:859)t do (cid:449)hat (cid:272)o(cid:374)su(cid:373)er thought it (cid:449)ould do, e(cid:373)pti(cid:374)ess) -> advertisement(to get rid of the e(cid:373)pti(cid:374)ess) . To manipulate u into buying with little reflection.