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CHAPTER 3: MATERIAL OR ECONOMIC SELF Flashcards

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• Refer either to the simple pre occupation with the material world, as opposed to intellectual or spiritual concepts, or to the theory that physical matter is all there is

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MATERIALISM

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• It is held by those who maintain that existence is explainable solely in material terms, with no accounting of spirit or consciousness

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MATERIALISM

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the decade of materialism in the United States

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1980

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self-absorption to the exclusion of others

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signs of materialism

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desire for immediate gratification

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signs of materialism

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Consumer Culture Over the Centuries

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FRANK TRENTMANN: THE MATERIAL SELF

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Venetian senate ruled that no more than six forks and six spoons could be given as wedding gifts and no gilded chests or mirrors at all

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1512

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Wuttemberg, Germany, women were fined a month’s pay or thrown in jail for sporting a fashionable handkerchief

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18th century

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“material self” was not all that ground breaking

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Jean – Jacques Rousseau

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“material self” was not all that ground breaking

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In the West

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envision a flow between spirits and objects and things can take on divine qualities

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Shinto and Buddhism

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unproductive use of wealth

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• Conspicuous Consumption

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  • Meant to criticize how new elite use richly decorated homes and expensively dressed wives to cement their social status
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• Conspicuous Consumption

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Theory of the Leisure Classes

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Thorstein Veblen

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about the attack to the new rich of America (1890s)

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Theory of the Leisure Classes

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The more we invest of ourselves in these objects, the more attached to them we inevitably are to them.

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WILLIAM JAMES: MATERIAL SELF

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constituted by our bodies, clothes, immediate family and home. It is to these things, according to James that we are the most deeply affected by because of our investments of self within these things.

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WILLIAM JAMES: MATERIAL SELF

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uses the principle that we are motivated to achieve certain needs take precedence over others.

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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

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Our most basic need is for physical survival, and this will be the first thing to motivate our behavior. Once that level is fulfilled, the next level up is what motivates us and so on.

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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

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very important as to how we enter a buying experience

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our initial state

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our body image issues or suffering from depression affect our purchasing behavior

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If we have low self-esteem

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derived from our social status, money, how we raised, family values, culture, social class, etc.

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perception of luxury

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each individual has slight difference view on what luxury is and what makes us feel ‘worth it’

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perception of luxury

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drive us to purchase, it just depends from what emotional state you start your shopping journey from

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ego and insecurity

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Our entire economic system: buy things. Everybody buy. It doesn’t matter what you buy, just buy. Buy like you breath

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PSYCHOLOGY OF MATERIALISM AND WHY ITS MAKING YOU UNHAPPY

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  1. Consumer culture may be harming individual well-being
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6 FACTS IN PSYCHOLOGY OF CONSUMPTION

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  1. Material values are linked to Type-A behavior
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6 FACTS IN PSYCHOLOGY OF CONSUMPTION

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  1. Money can’t really buy you happiness
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6 FACTS IN PSYCHOLOGY OF CONSUMPTION

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  1. Materialism could ruin your relationships
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6 FACTS IN PSYCHOLOGY OF CONSUMPTION

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  1. Consumer cultures may breed narcissistic personalities
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6 FACTS IN PSYCHOLOGY OF CONSUMPTION

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  1. Consumerism is fueled by insecurity – and remedied by mindfulness
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6 FACTS IN PSYCHOLOGY OF CONSUMPTION

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defined self-gifts as “personally symbolic self- communication through special indulgences that tend to be premeditated and highly context bound”

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• Mick and DeMoss (1990)

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gift to oneself are nutrients for emotional health when a person is devoid of satisfying interpersonal relations

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Schwartz (1967)

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has been associated with self-centeredness

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Materialism

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tend to utilize possession in self-definition

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Materialists

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believed that happiness can be gained from purchase and consumption

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Materialists

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  1. You aren’t the things you own
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TIPS FOR A LESS MATERIALISTIC LIFESTYLE

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  1. Relationships are about doing, not having.
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TIPS FOR A LESS MATERIALISTIC LIFESTYLE

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  1. Create a system of goals and challenges
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TIPS FOR A LESS MATERIALISTIC LIFESTYLE

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  1. Serve
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TIPS FOR A LESS MATERIALISTIC LIFESTYLE

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  1. Trash it
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TIPS FOR A LESS MATERIALISTIC LIFESTYLE

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  1. See wealth as a challenge not a result
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TIPS FOR A LESS MATERIALISTIC LIFESTYLE

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  1. Experience over objects
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TIPS FOR A LESS MATERIALISTIC LIFESTYLE

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  1. Build intangible assets
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TIPS FOR A LESS MATERIALISTIC LIFESTYLE

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  1. Use money to free, not chain, yourself
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TIPS FOR A LESS MATERIALISTIC LIFESTYLE

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  1. Go basic
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TIPS FOR A LESS MATERIALISTIC LIFESTYLE

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  1. Avoid the status game
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TIPS FOR A LESS MATERIALISTIC LIFESTYLE

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  1. Judge yourself by your ethics and your understanding
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TIPS FOR A LESS MATERIALISTIC LIFESTYLE

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  1. Let go
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TIPS FOR A LESS MATERIALISTIC LIFESTYLE

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  1. You can’t take it with you
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TIPS FOR A LESS MATERIALISTIC LIFESTYLE

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