consumerism

(noun)

A materialistic attachment to possessions.

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Examples of consumerism in the following topics:

  • The Role of Women in the Household

    • Similarly, the trend of consumerism during the 1950's offered new technologies that increased the daily work of housewives.
    • Describe how 1950s suburbanization, new technologies, and the trend of consumerism led to changes in the role of women in the household.

  • The Culture of Abundance and Consumerism

    • Explain the culture of abundance and consumerism that thrived following the end of World War II.

  • Mass Marketing, Advertising, and Consumer Culture

    • The next several decades saw a significant shift in consumerism.

  • Conclusion: WWII and the U.S.

    • The post-World War II period in the United States witnessed unprecedented economic prosperity and important social developments, including critical shifts on the labor market, rise of mass consumerism, "baby boom," and the rapid growth of civil rights movement.
    • Consumerism represented one of the consequences (as well as one of the key ingredients) of the postwar economic boom.

  • Demographic Shifts

    • He also discussed how major corporations such as McDonald's provided a shared state of consumerism that formed a new zone of comfort.

  • The Culture of the Roaring Twenties

    • Flapper fashion was both a trend and a social statement, a deliberate parting of ways with rigid Victorian gender roles, which emphasized plain living, hard work, and religion, to embrace consumerism and personal choice.

  • Domestic Policies

    • He attempted to inspire Americans to see the energy and economic problems as related to consumerism and excessive desire in American culture--a profound but politically unpopular strategy--through speeches and his own sacrifice of luxuries.

  • Rock and Roll

    • Inheriting the folk tradition of the protest song, rock music has been associated with political activism as well as changes in social attitudes to race, sex and drug use, and is often seen as an expression of youth revolt against adult consumerism and conformity.

  • The Transition to Peacetime

    • Consumerism represented one of the consequences (as well as one of the key ingredients) of the postwar economic boom.

  • The Gilded Age

    • These inventions provided the bases for modern consumerism and industrial productivity.