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French sociologist Jean Baudrillard, one of the leading figures of our age, draws attention with his thoughts on many subjects such as society, consumer, consumption and advertising. The fact that advertising has a great role in the consumption universe from the first day it emerged has drawn the attention of Baudrillard, as well as many other thinkers, and his ideas on this subject have been reflected in almost all of his works. According to Baudrillard, in an increasingly wealthy society, people form a consumer society by becoming commodified and objectified. Advertising is of great importance in the formation, functioning and progress of the consumer society. People have started to consume for psychological satisfaction, not for need, and they buy symbols instead of products or services. In this order, it takes its place as a trigger, guiding and rewarding.
The aim of this study is to determine Jean Baudrillard's point of view on advertising, the way he handles advertising and his thoughts on advertising. As a method, Sociology of Literature, which claims that written works consist of a combination of factors such as the author himself, his immediate and distant environment, the events he lived, the society, etc. With this method, 26 books belonging to Baudrillard were examined, the ideas about the advertisement were first coded and then analyzed in a way that the common codes were together. Baudrillard included the subject of advertising in 9 of these 26 books on different subjects. It is seen that Baudrillard evaluates advertisement within the scope of consumer society, industry, productive forces, consumer, technology and social and psychological phenomena.