materialistic

Examples of materialistic in the following topics:

• Emerging Values

  • The difference between materialist and post-materialist values can often be witnessed in family dinner conversations, which reveal how generational change leads to value change.
  • Whereas the generation before the Baby Boom was concerned with economic and physical security, Boomers tend to have what are referred to as post-materialist values.
  • Post-materialist values emphasize non-material values like freedom and the ability to express oneself.
  • Sociologists explain the rise of post-materialist values in two ways.
  • These materialistic goals will have priority over post-materialist goals like belonging, esteem, and aesthetic and intellectual satisfaction.

• New Social Movements

  • New social movements focus on issues related to human rights, rather than on materialistic concerns, such as economic development.
  • The primary difference is in their goals, as the new movements focus not on issues of materialistic qualities such as economic well-being, but on issues related to human rights (such as gay rights or pacifism).
  • In other words, the contemporary social movements reject the materialistic orientation of consumerism in capitalist societies by questioning the modern idea that links the pursuit of happiness and success closely to growth, progress, and increased productivity and by instead promoting alternative values and understandings in relation to the social world.

• Ideology

  • Similarly, Louis Althusser proposed a materialistic conception of ideology using the concept of the ideological state apparatus.

• Beliefs

  • Both superstition and many traditional religions are non-materialistic, do not see the world as being subject to laws of cause and effect, and presume that there are immaterial forces influencing our lives.

• An Overview of U.S. Values

  • American culture includes both conservative and liberal elements, such as scientific and religious competitiveness, political structures, risk taking and free expression, materialist and moral elements.

• Countercultures

  • As the 1960s progressed, widespread tensions developed in American society that tended to flow along generational lines regarding the war in Vietnam, race relations, sexual mores, women's rights, traditional modes of authority, and a materialistic interpretation of the American Dream.

• Styles of Leadership

  • Contingent reward provides rewards (materialistic or psychological) for effort and recognizes good performance.

• Populism and Religion

  • First, he believed that what he considered a materialistic account of the descent of man through evolution undermined the Bible.

• Pre-Raphaelites

  • The split was never absolute, since both factions believed that art was essentially spiritual in character, opposing their idealism to the materialist realism associated with Courbet and impressionism.

• The Feminist Movement

  • Rosemary Hennessy and Chrys Ingraham say that materialist feminisms grew out of Western Marxist thought and have inspired a number of different (but overlapping) movements, all of which are involved in a critique of capitalism and are focussed on ideology's relationship to women.