A Critique of Consumer Capitalism and Culture of Consumption

Number: 33 March 1, 2016
  • Zeki Duman
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A Critique of Consumer Capitalism and Culture of Consumption

Abstract

For a long time, contemporary societies have been governed by consumption based neoliberal policies that attempt to move consumption to the global scale. Undoubtedly, three major processes effectively led to consumer societies: free market economy, late capitalism culture and monopolized capital's labor abuse. In addition to these processes, neoliberalism's advertisement of characteristics that are bound to object based images rather than classes, and an identity policy that is surrounded, filled and shattered by symbols and manifestations, ensured the continuation of the capitalist system which owes its existence to consumer economics. Capitalist system’s consumption policies played a critical role in not only the proliferation of a conformism based culture, but also the construction and exposure of the social identity. Therefore, it is possible to claim that as a product of consumer societies, consumer culture, functions as an instrument that enables social differentiation and class hierarchy in the individualistic and symbolic level, and the increase in the production and hegemony of the capital in the global scale. In this paper, a general critique of consumer capitalism and consumer culture will be presented

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Turkish

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Zeki Duman This is me

Publication Date

March 1, 2016

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March 1, 2016

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Year 2016 Number: 33

APA
Duman, Z. (2016). TÜKETİMCİ KAPİTALİZMİN VE TÜKETİM KÜLTÜRÜNÜN ELEŞTİRİSİ. Sosyoloji Dergisi, 33, 15-36. https://izlik.org/JA63CK43EY
AMA
1.Duman Z. TÜKETİMCİ KAPİTALİZMİN VE TÜKETİM KÜLTÜRÜNÜN ELEŞTİRİSİ. JOS. 2016;(33):15-36. https://izlik.org/JA63CK43EY
Chicago
Duman, Zeki. 2016. “TÜKETİMCİ KAPİTALİZMİN VE TÜKETİM KÜLTÜRÜNÜN ELEŞTİRİSİ”. Sosyoloji Dergisi, nos. 33: 15-36. https://izlik.org/JA63CK43EY.
EndNote
Duman Z (March 1, 2016) TÜKETİMCİ KAPİTALİZMİN VE TÜKETİM KÜLTÜRÜNÜN ELEŞTİRİSİ. Sosyoloji Dergisi 33 15–36.
IEEE
[1]Z. Duman, “TÜKETİMCİ KAPİTALİZMİN VE TÜKETİM KÜLTÜRÜNÜN ELEŞTİRİSİ”, JOS, no. 33, pp. 15–36, Mar. 2016, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA63CK43EY
ISNAD
Duman, Zeki. “TÜKETİMCİ KAPİTALİZMİN VE TÜKETİM KÜLTÜRÜNÜN ELEŞTİRİSİ”. Sosyoloji Dergisi. 33 (March 1, 2016): 15-36. https://izlik.org/JA63CK43EY.
JAMA
1.Duman Z. TÜKETİMCİ KAPİTALİZMİN VE TÜKETİM KÜLTÜRÜNÜN ELEŞTİRİSİ. JOS. 2016;:15–36.
MLA
Duman, Zeki. “TÜKETİMCİ KAPİTALİZMİN VE TÜKETİM KÜLTÜRÜNÜN ELEŞTİRİSİ”. Sosyoloji Dergisi, no. 33, Mar. 2016, pp. 15-36, https://izlik.org/JA63CK43EY.
Vancouver
1.Zeki Duman. TÜKETİMCİ KAPİTALİZMİN VE TÜKETİM KÜLTÜRÜNÜN ELEŞTİRİSİ. JOS [Internet]. 2016 Mar. 1;(33):15-36. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA63CK43EY

Sosyoloji Dergisi, Journal of Sociology, SD, JOS