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Consumerism - Coggle Diagram
Consumerism
Health effects
Work becomes a compulsive form of consumption
Bring diseases such as:
Stress
Burnout syndrome
Addiction
Permanent and failed attempt to satiate the unsaturable
Capitalism
Law that protects consumerism
Consumer Protection Law
Gives security to the consumer
Guarantees that can consume with confidence
Structure
Center
Free labor market
Qualified people
Periphery
Forced labor market
Less qualified people
Culture in which consumption is at the heart of human behavior
Much more consumption than strictly necessary
What happened in the person?
Altered perception of what is necessary
Live to work
Live for having or for winning
Standard of living confused with level of consumption
Life quality confused with amount of things
Well-being is not consumption
Loss of autonomy
Dependence on technologies and consumption systems
The reward system takes control
Obsession with material accumulation and economic success
Central purpose of existence
Stops being just a mean to sustain life
Essential things for living are business and that causes confusion
Water
Food
Communication
Individualism the main cause
Cultural context
State of shock
Traditions
Society
Contemporary individual
Era of Mass Consumption
Emergence of an Unprecedented Mode of Socialization
Individualization
Erosion of social identities
Ideological and political abandonment
Accelerated destabilization of personalities
No more subordination of the individual
Personal fulfillment
Respect for subjective uniqueness
Incomparable personality
Consume revolution
Transformation of lifestyles
Consumption as a cultural amalgam
Satisfies social mandates and particular desires
Desires that the market itself creates
Attraction by marketing
"Way against suffering"
"Finding of happiness"
There are objects in homes that are never used due to a lack of time
1 more item...
"Months without interest"
Accelerated obsolescence
Credit cards
Grounded in the anguish of being
Right to freedom
Limited to the economic and politic
Do whatever you want
Choose what you want
Have what you want
Hapiness
Promised by the market
Youth
Beauty
Vigour
Inability to create an ethical and aesthetic model
Look for vulnerable points to make money of them
Deepens the subjects' anxieties
Look for ways to calm that anxieties and clings to the consumption
Fear takes over the most intimate fibers
Conditions thoughts, decisions and actions
Want to buy happiness
"If you're sad, let's go to the mall and I'll buy you something"
Want to measure affection with material things
Security
Education
Educational offers
Students consume what the educational institution offers
Consumes demands and already knows that will be functional to the labor market
Scholarships
The one who endures the blows is rewarded
Sustained from a social and economic condition
The student is prepared for the consumption that the labor system will make