Question 1

The time saving tools used by workers caught in the cycle of work-and-spend often have environmental repercussions.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.)
-____ "The Original Affluent Society"

Accepted Answer

A)  Hierarchy of Needs 
B)  Leisure class 
C)  Conspicuous consumption 
D)  Vicarious consumption 
E)  Positional goods
F) Treadmill of consumption
G) Marshal Sahlins
H) Thorstein Veblen
I) Mahatma Gandhi
J) Hau

Question 3

What is the "paradox of a positional economy?"?

Accepted Answer

A)  1% of the world owns 95% of the world's wealth. 
B)  Treadmills of production and consumption push individuals in contradictory directions. 
C)  Treadmills of consumption speed up as more people purchase more. 
D)  Levels of consumption are constantly devalued as more people attain them due to general economic growth.

Question 4

Although we know that money can't buy happiness, research in Britain and the United States suggests that:

Accepted Answer

A)  unskilled and partly skilled workers at the bottom of the pay scale are happier than other workers. 
B)  skilled manual workers from lower middle pay scale are happier than better-paid, non-manual, professional workers. 
C)  middle-class workers are happier than their wealthy counterparts. 
D)  the wealthy express the least level of happiness with their standard of living.

Question 5

Thorstein Veblen argues that the leisure class engages in vicarious consumption, leisure and waste.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.)
-____ The Theory of the Leisure Class

Accepted Answer

A)  Hierarchy of Needs 
B)  Leisure class 
C)  Conspicuous consumption 
D)  Vicarious consumption 
E)  Positional goods
F) Treadmill of consumption
G) Marshal Sahlins
H) Thorstein Veblen
I) Mahatma Gandhi
J) Hau

Exam 2: Consumption and Materialism

The time saving tools used by workers caught in the cycle of work-and-spend often have environmental repercussions.

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.) -____ "The Original Affluent Society"

What is the "paradox of a positional economy?"?

Although we know that money can't buy happiness, research in Britain and the United States suggests that:

Thorstein Veblen argues that the leisure class engages in vicarious consumption, leisure and waste.

Matching: Please match the term, thinker, and/or text with its complement or correspondent , by placing the appropriate identification letter/number in the space provided. (You may use answers more than once.) -____ The Theory of the Leisure Class