Consumer Culture

Consumer Culture

Heidi Watkins
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Author:  Heidi Watkins
Condition:  New
Format:  Hardback
Pages:  103
Publisher:  Cengage Gale
Year:  2011
ISBN:  9780737752069

Editor Heidi Watkins has compiled several essays that will help your readers understand what consumer culture is, and the role that they play in it. The essays present diversity of opinion on this topic, including both conservative and liberal points of view in an even balance. Readers will hear from Madeline Levine on how consumer culture harms children and teens while Howard Bloom argues that it benefits society. Jean Kilbourne reports that advertising is to blame for overconsumption while John Naish argues that human instinct it to blame for it. Closing essays help readers understand what they should know and do about consumer culture.

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