Deck 20: Cultures and Consumption

Question 1

Which theorist discusses that fashion displays membership and is used to distinguish individuals from others?

A) Zygmunt Bauman
B) George Ritzer
C) Georg Simmel
D) Dick Hebidge

Answer 1

C

Question 2

The consumer society describes:

A) Societies that exchange goods for currency
B) The increased flow of and marketing of consumer goods and the rise in availability of personal credit to buy them
C) Societies which are wasteful due to rapidly changing 'fast fashion' trends
D) The decreased ability for people to buy consumer goods

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Commodity fetishism describes:

A) How capitalism places value on human relations above all else
B) When people flock to buy the most popular products of the season
C) How capitalism places value on products and fails to appreciate the labour that produces them
D) How capitalism appreciates the labor that produces products to motivate workers to be more productive

Answer 3

C

Question 4

According to Zygmunt Bauman in a consumer society poverty is viewed as:

A) A choice
B) A myth
C) A government failing
D) A societal issue

Question 5

The term material culture describes:

A) When people like to buy new things despite not needing them
B) When symbolic objects mediate peoples' identities and relationships
C) When a society's economy relies on making clothing
D) When a person's identity effects the material objects they produce

Question 6

Which term describes people who help to produce the goods they consume?

A) Co-Producer
B) Consumer
C) Prosumer
D) Consumption producer

Question 7

In sociology taste describes:

A) A person's preferences and desires which are influenced by social factors
B) A person's preferences and desires which are influenced by their genetics
C) When people pretend to like things that are considered high class
D) Objects that have a great deal of social value

Question 8

According to Pierre Bourdieu a person's taste is influenced by:

A) Their genetics
B) Their inherited and accumulated social resources
C) What is currently in fashion
D) Societal pressure

Question 9

Theorists informed by Marxist perspectives frame consumer culture as:

A) The means for individuals to emancipate themselves from capitalist order
B) Playing a positive function for humanity
C) The means of blinding individuals to the reproduction of capitalist order
D) A means of building social solidarity

Question 10

Researchers from the British Cultural Studies tradition argue that consumers:

A) Passively consume goods
B) Do not alter the meanings of consumer goods
C) Can shape the meanings of consumer goods
D) Are buying less consumer goods