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: --
We live in a consumer society, and that is the answer.
I stand here as a defender of the consumer society.
The body in consumer society.
A generation of architects sharing this bleak conclusion distanced themselves from any social pretension and embraced architectural autonomy as a means of resisting consumer society rather than transforming it.
However, the author does his best to avoid a grand narrative of modernization, especially one that views the eighteenth century as central- the "rise of consumer society" and all that.
It will be interesting, therefore, to see what has changed and what remains unaltered with respect to workings of the stem-family household in a present-day affluent consumer society.
It does not even matter whether the discomfort predicated by want is real or concocted by a consumer society that promotes the idea of inadequacy to sell more product.
In other words, in a postmodern consumer society, they are vested only in their own improvement as individuals, not in the general well-being of a community.
