Category Archives: Consumerism

The word “consumerism” means a social and economic order that encourages the purchase of goods and services in ever-greater amounts. Also, it is the consumerists movement, consumer protection or consumer activism, which seeks to protect and inform consumers by requiring such practices as honest packaging and advertising, product guarantees, and improved safety standards. In fact, the word “consumerism” related to many different aspects:

-Self-identity

Nowadays, many teenagers seek respect from others by following others’ taste like purchasing similar brands to increase their self-identity in the social group.

-Peer recognition To gain the social acceptance from the peer group, many people are strongly motive to follow others. This situation is usually happened between teens. -Mass media (advertising) Advertising is a form of….

The world fails to realize that the human race is what will lead the Earth to destruction. The population is only doing what every other creature does to survive; however humans are doing it better. Therefore, all the expanding going on is going to eventually lead to an end to the population, because there will be no more room so the race will go down in its own waste. The reason for all this consumption is because humans have made consuming a necessity and this necessity is outstripping resources that are needed to satisfy the world’s demand.

Statistics show that humans consume 30 per cent more material and Americans consume the most by eating. All this consumption is more than the Earth can handle; therefore, eventually the….

In this essay, by answering these 12 questions I intend to offer a brief, but critical & evaluative assessment, of the impact of advertising, consumerism and the media. * What according to Diamond creates communication technologies, & what is the impact of the telephone, as one example? The creation of communication technologies, such as the telephone systems or hand-held mobile phones, can be understood as both a commercial business driven by & distributed for the purpose of profit maximisation, and as a product of creative, intellectual activity, highlighting it’s dominance in technological progress.

However we are obliged to make cultural observations on the creation of these technologies (especially the telephone) & the roles they play, & affect they have on/in society. Stanley Diamond, in his works ‘In….