Rami Gabriel calls “‘cool’ the central ideology of contemporary consumption”. How does ‘cool’ fit with consumer culture and what Gabriel calls expressive individualism? Identify and briefly explain the key sociological factors that influenced the shift of what Juliet Schor calls the old and new consumerism. Commodity Fetishism is said to be a distortion in the relations between people. What does this mean? What do we lose touch with? Please use an example to illustrate how commodity fetishism works.

Rami Gabriel calls “‘cool’ the central ideology of contemporary consumption”. How does ‘cool’ fit with consumer culture and what Gabriel calls expressive individualism? Identify and briefly explain the key sociological factors that influenced the shift of what Juliet Schor calls the old and new consumerism. Commodity Fetishism is said to be a distortion in the relations between people. What does this mean? What do we lose touch with? Please use an example to illustrate how commodity fetishism works.

Marketing

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ISBN:9780357033791

Author:Pride, William M

Publisher:Pride, William M

Chapter3: The Marketing Environment

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