Sentences with phrase «modern consumer society»

In the West, our modern consumer society has now debased this concept to be the equality to buy and consume, to trade and to travel, to build up a life of toys and trinkets.

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Both groups see the modern secular world as a materialist, consumer - driven society which has lost whatever spirituality it had in the past.

Fortunately, a large majority of poor and religious Indians do not live within the modern culture of materialism; they are invulnerable to the glamour of the CEO, the investment banker, the PR executive, the copywriter, and other gurus of the West's fully organized consumer societies.

But none of the products he worked on had a more dramatic impact on consumers than disposable diapers, which — along with such things as Bic pens and microwave ovens — have became a symbol of the culture of convenience that permeates most modern, time - pressed societies.

A product of modern American society's tendency to overspend and overfinance, credit repair organizations entice consumers with products and services that would «repair» a consumer's credit report in order to avoid future problematic and embarrassing rejections for credit.

In a snapshot this region illustrates the stark differences between modern - day consumer - culture Thailand and the traditional societies of yesteryear.

Her attention to the illusory surface textures of protean forms is not solely attentive to liquid crystals but extends metaphorically to other social and scientific developments (a fictional Jack - and - the - Beanstalk becomes a modern genetic scientist, or crystals self - organise into a palace whose display function changes consumer society forever). . .

• Art and the Banal: The Pop Era / El Arte y lo Banal: La Era Pop Claudia Calirman — a curator and professor at John Jay College, CUNY specializing in Latin American, modern, and contemporary art — explores the contested field of American Pop art and its association with consumer society and a new drive towards cosmopolitanism and internationalization.