Bell's Consumption and Materialism | Marx, Freud, Marcuse | Distinctively Cool | Extreme Rebellion | Marketing to Children |
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What is the original affluent society?
Marshall Sahlin's account of the good life among hunter gatherers.
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What is "commodity fetishism"?
Our attachment to objects without an understanding of their social origins.
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Who was Pierre Bourdieu?
French sociologist who argued that class distinctions are inhabited in what people purchase and how they behave.
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What is the back to the land movement?
An escape from urban/suburban life to a simpler life in the country.
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What is the nag factor?
Annoying behavior children use to manipulate their parents into buying something for them.
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What is a positional good?
Something that is valuable solely because of its scarcity.
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What is sublimation?
The Freudian idea that we can redirect our instinctual energy towards productive ends.
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What is kitsch?
The ironic consumption of what you know to be inferior goods.
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Who was Max Weber?
German sociologist who argued that, beyond social class, distinctive lifestyles based on what people consumed served as an important indicator of status.
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What is guilt money?
What parents spend on their children to make up for the time they've been away from them.
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What is conspicuous consumption?
The purchase of goods primarily as signifiers of status in an economically advanced society.
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What is repressive desublimation?
Marcuse's idea that marketers are able to redirect our instinctual energy towards buying things.
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Who is Richard Florida?
City planning consultant who advises making your city a magnet for the creative class; economic progress will soon follow.
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Who was Emile Durkheim?
A French sociologist who argued that regular interaction with others in community was a good source of trust in others.
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What is age compression?
The tendency of marketers to create advertising using children just a bit older than the target audience.
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What is conspicuous leisure?
Evidence of your social distance from necessary hard work and toil.
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What was the Frankfurt School?
A group of German exiles who reinterpreted Marx's notion of ideology to better understand the use of the culture industry under Hitler and eventually in the United States.
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Who is Naomi Klein?
An anti-globalization activist/author whom Heath and Potter deem a hypocrite because of her elitist Toronto real estate holdings.
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Who was Thomas Hobbes?
A 17th century political theorist who are argued that the state may inflict violence to enforce the rule of law instill trust among members of society.
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What was the Federal Trade Commission Improvements Act of 1980?
Legislation that barred the federal government from regulating advertisements aimed at children.
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What is "hau"?
The Maori word for the idea that things are mixed with souls.
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What was Angela Davis?
One of Herbert Marcuse's students who would have a lasting impact on the counter culture through her activism in the Black Panthers.
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What is a collective action problem?
When a social problem is recognized by many, but nobody is willing to do anything about it.
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What is bohemianism?
A romantic revolt against utilitarian society.
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Among 8- to 18-year-olds, how much time is spent n average per day being exposed to electronic media?
Ten hours and forty-five minutes.
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