Socio-psychological aspects of consumptionism 3502-524
The more detailed list of topics includes:
1. Definition of consumerism: pattern of behavior or a new way of life; attitudes shaped by it
2. New forms of sociality: socialization towards objects
3. Origins of consumerism: romantic ethics as a source of consumptionist attitude
4. Consuming goods, ideas and people: supermarketization
5. Consuming romantic utopia: market in the service of love (or vice versa)
6. Consuming time: the culture of urgency
7. Consumptionism in work: the idea of self-fulfillment
8. Consuming death: popular culture and its entertainments
9. Consuming oneself: body as an object of consumption
10. Consumption as a form of domination
11. Consumption as a tool of social change
12. Living in the affluent society: boredom and overload
13. Consumption as a construction of meanings
14. On needless people in the world of consumption: social exclusion
15. Consumerism and its enemies: no logo culture
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