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Consumption, consumer culture and consumer society

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  • Aytekin Firat
  • Kemal Y. Kutucuoglu
  • Isil Arikan Saltik
  • Ozgur Tuncel

Abstract

This paper mainly deals with the concepts and issues surrounding the contemporary notion of consumption. Consumption is a complex social phenomenon in which people consume goods or services for reasons beyond their basic use-value. Conspicuous Consumption, Symbolic Consumption, Addictive Consumption, Compulsive Consumption and Sacred Consumption are five main categories defining distinctive consumption styles. Basic characteristics of consumer culture can be summarized in the transforming of needs to desires, utilitarian/hedonic needs-values, commodity fetishism, conspicuous leisure and consumption, cultural values, aestheticization, alienation, differentiation and speed. A consumer society is one in which the entire society is organized around the consumption and display of commodities through which individuals gain prestige, identity, and standing. The paper explores the main factors fueling the engine of consumer society that has over the past few decades gained a global perspective.

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  • Aytekin Firat & Kemal Y. Kutucuoglu & Isil Arikan Saltik & Ozgur Tuncel, 2013. "Consumption, consumer culture and consumer society," Journal of Community Positive Practices, Catalactica NGO, issue 1, pages 182-203.
    • Handle: RePEc:cta:jcppxx:11310
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    2. De Rosa, Marcello & Adinolfi, Felice & Capitanio, Fabian & Paci, Federica & Pantini, Denis, 2015. "The role of culinary programs in the emergency of "distinct" consumers," 143rd Joint EAAE/AAEA Seminar, March 25-27, 2015, Naples, Italy 202734, European Association of Agricultural Economists.
    3. Raluca M. BĂLĂ, 2014. "Structure Analysis Of The Evolution Of Private Consumption In Romania," SEA - Practical Application of Science, Romanian Foundation for Business Intelligence, Editorial Department, issue 4, pages 181-188, July.
    4. Yakov P. Silin & Olesya V. Kharitonenko, 2022. "Paradigmatic foundations of health resorts’ municipal economics (case of Russia’s urban districts)," Journal of New Economy, Ural State University of Economics, vol. 23(1), pages 66-87, April.
    5. Vlad Rosca, 2015. "Customer attitudes towards buying e-books: Perspectives from a Romanian publishing house," Journal of Community Positive Practices, Catalactica NGO, issue 4, pages 105-111.
    6. De Rosa, Marcello & Adinolfi, Felice & Capitanio, Fabian & Paci, Federica & Pantini, Denis, 2014. "The role of culinary programs in the emergency of “distinct” consumers," Politica Agricola Internazionale - International Agricultural Policy, Edizioni L'Informatore Agrario, vol. 2014(4).

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