0 a society in which people often buy new goods, especially goods that they do not need, and in which a high value is placed on owning many things
1 a society in which people often buy new goods, and that places a high value on owning things:
Organic farming was a way of protecting the local environment, but also of freeing human beings from the “rat race” of modern consumer society.
He has fun with pensions' advertisements and has useful vignettes of the inequalities of consumer society.
Unexpectedly, architectural autonomy, instead of providing resistance to consumer society, brought about the commodification of architecture.
But the consumer society boom gave rise to a growing uneasiness typical of the third period which culminated with the crisis of 1974-6.
Thus, ' consumer society ' and the ' work society ' both reinforce and create negative language and images of later life.
Each person is unique, but a consumer society tries to make us the same, like a manufacturer.
What is new after 1750 is the increasing importance of the process, part of the rise of "consumer society" and the commercialization of leisure.
She reveals the entrapment of children in a consumer society, which leaves them relatively powerless, and in thrall to the illusion of choice and the orchestration of desire.
