Consumer Culture

Looks at how the Consumer Culture has developed since World War II in America. Asks the questions whether this is a good thing, or whether we as American's should maybe take a little time to re examine our lives.

In the recent nonfiction release Born to Buy, Juliet P. Schor discusses the commercialized child and the new consumer culture. Schor blames the consumer culture and the corporations that fuel it for a wide host of problems, while dismissing other causes.

Diners, Bowling Alleys, and Trailer Parks: Chasing the American Dream in Postwar Consumer Culture attempts to draw a dotted line between the reconstruction of these three establishments and the rise of consumer culture.

Consumerism is invading religion's tradition place in society and redefining the soul as a commodity that can be bought and sold.

Its not the cost of clothing that impresses woman only how we look in it.