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The Will to Consume: Schopenhauer and Consumer Society
Critical Horizons, 2016Consumer society has negated Freud's thesis presented in Civilization and its Discontents. The hindrance of desire affirmation is no longer the foundation of discontent. The inverse is now true. A seemingly limitless number of desires have been manufactured and administered with a solitary route to their affirmation via consumption.
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2013
Since the economic reforms beginning in 1978 and the “open door” policy that followed, consumer society in China has attracted the attention of academia. Before that, under Maoist socialism, consumerism was ideologically regarded as bourgeois and was generally suppressed.
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Since the economic reforms beginning in 1978 and the “open door” policy that followed, consumer society in China has attracted the attention of academia. Before that, under Maoist socialism, consumerism was ideologically regarded as bourgeois and was generally suppressed.
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Consumer power in the digital society
Communications of the ACM, 2005A shift in the balance of power brings with it increased potential for influence.
Elia T. Zureik, Abbe Mowshowitz
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1991
The liberal democracies are, clearly and proudly, societies of consumers. Members of the public are described as consumers as often as they are called citizens. Wherever consumption has replaced production as the determining economic activity, a great deal of energy must be spent on production solely for the purpose of satisfying an artificially ...
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The liberal democracies are, clearly and proudly, societies of consumers. Members of the public are described as consumers as often as they are called citizens. Wherever consumption has replaced production as the determining economic activity, a great deal of energy must be spent on production solely for the purpose of satisfying an artificially ...
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On being a Welfare Consumer in a Consumer Society
Social Policy and Society, 2003This article focuses on two aspects of the real or imagined conflict between welfarism and consumerism; whether the experience of being a welfare user is somehow changed by living in a society in which people may see themselves less as workers and more as consumers; and whether the providers of welfare services and benefits can or should treat their ...
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2008
A timely and critical review and analysis of the development and implementation of New Labour's rural policies since 1997.
Jones, I R +5 more
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A timely and critical review and analysis of the development and implementation of New Labour's rural policies since 1997.
Jones, I R +5 more
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2019
The current understanding of vehicle-to-grid from a consumer perspective is quite limited, perhaps unsurprising considering the novelty of the technology. This chapter first describes the ambivalence and overall limited awareness that consumers have towards vehicle-to-grid, and then employs three sociotechnical theories to gain a prospective ...
Lance Noel +3 more
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The current understanding of vehicle-to-grid from a consumer perspective is quite limited, perhaps unsurprising considering the novelty of the technology. This chapter first describes the ambivalence and overall limited awareness that consumers have towards vehicle-to-grid, and then employs three sociotechnical theories to gain a prospective ...
Lance Noel +3 more
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2008
The notion of “consumer society” emerged after World War II and was made famous by authors such as Marcuse, Galbraith, Packard, and Baudrillard (cf. Baudrillard 1998). It was used to suggest that the society in which we live is a late variant of capitalism characterized by the primacy of consumption over production.
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The notion of “consumer society” emerged after World War II and was made famous by authors such as Marcuse, Galbraith, Packard, and Baudrillard (cf. Baudrillard 1998). It was used to suggest that the society in which we live is a late variant of capitalism characterized by the primacy of consumption over production.
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The expert consumer:Associations and professionals in consumer society
2006Recent work has focused on the politics of consumption and its manifestation in a number of situations. This volume extends these debates, providing a tighter focus and contributing to a noticeable gap in the field that numerous scholars are beginning to turn towards: that is, organizations of consumers themselves who have chosen to speak for all ...
Chatriot, Alain +2 more
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