A consumerist society refers to a culture or a system that emphasizes and prioritizes the buying and consumption of goods and services as a central aspect of people's lives. Full definition
The golf course as a leisurely symbol of consumerist society serves as a counterpoint to issues relating to migration, global warming and globalisation that eventually come to the fore. (royalacademy.org.uk)
But whereas Warhol's «Campbell's Soup Cans» made waves in 1962 as a commentary on post-war consumerist society, today's fashion creatives are much more complicit. (businessoffashion.com)
Warhol moved to New York in 1949 to work in illustration and advertising, and quickly began producing some of the most astute commentary on postwar American consumerist society, collapsing some of the perceived barriers between counterculture and high art. (untappedcities.com)