Sentences with phrase «emphasis on consumerism»

At the same time Aetna, along with other large national insurers, has been converting from largely wholesale operations focused on the employer to more retail operations infused with an emphasis on consumerism.

Not exact matches

And how significant is it that this attitude of separation places great emphasis on some issues of outward appearance (alcohol, smoking, tattoos, entertainment) and not others (unthinking consumerism, gluttony)?

That is, it arises precisely from what has been most characteristic and creative about modern civilization: its dynamically accumulating knowledge and technology, its expanding industrial system and its emphasis on egalitarian consumerism.

The attitudes of economically better - off citizens are shaped by the dominant culture's emphasis on individualism and consumerism.

But neither he nor his friend Gerhard Richter could ignore Beuys's emphasis on conceptual practices, and the two budding painters dreamed up a highly ironic style they christened «Capitalist Realism,» in which they conflated the mad consumerism of the West with drab, Communist Bloc socialism.

FAILE's work is constructed from found visual imagery, and blurs the line between «high» and «low» culture, but recent exhibitions demonstrate an emphasis on audience participation, a critique of consumerism, and the incorporation of religious media, architecture, and site - specific / archival research into their work.

But the not - so subtle impact of putting so much emphasis on individual shopping habits has been to reinforce both consumerism and individualism.

While there have been some valid feminist critiques about Dove's emphasis on beauty and empowerment through consumerism, Dove and Unilever's other Sustainable Living Brands have, by and large, lived up to the spirit of the Sustainable Development Goals.