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What is Consumer Culture
1.
Consumer culture
can be broadly defined as social status, values and activities and are centered on the consumption of goods and services. In other words, much of what a person does, what they value, and how they are defined in
consumer culture
has to do with their spending. From an economic perspective, popular
culture
is viewed as a set of capitalist production processes driven by the motive of profit and selling to
consumer
s.
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2.
Is a form of material
culture
facilitated by the market. Social science is interested in research of sets of relationships between the
consumer
and the material object or services purchased.
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3.
A form of
culture
which indicates to the emphasis on consumption.
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4.
A
culture
in which the buying and selling of goods and services is the most important social and economic activity.
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5.
A
culture
characterized by a focus on the marketplace as the central societal institution.
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6.
A
culture
where people define their identities and the identities of others based on what they and others consume, their values stimulate consumption, and their world is centered on the consumption of goods and services.
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7.
Consumer culture
is a form of social activity that brings economy and
culture
together.
Consumer culture
aims to create a collective meaning to the
consumer
’s environment and to guide their experiences and to produce images, texts, and objects.
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8.
A
consumer culture
signifies a social arrangement in which markets mediate a relationship among the ways of life, lived
culture
, social resources, and the symbolic or material resources. Thus, a
consumer culture
is jointly saclike constructed
culture
(of overlapping, flued, distributed and collective meanings of values, norms, even conflicting practices, identities,) based on the markets, commercially produced images, texts, and objects.
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9.
A
culture
organized around the consumption of goods and leisure. The items consumed are non-necessary but they represent important symbols related to the formation of self-identity.
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