Geographies of material culture Flashcards

You may prefer our related Brainscape-certified flashcards:
1
Q

Baudrillard, 1988

A

Our consumer identities are themselves commodified, as when they are sold as TV audiences or mass marketing lists it seems plausible that objects possess us with characteristics as much as we possess them (

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

Ritzer, 2004

A

The rest of the world is being colonised, or rather ‘McDonaldized’ as authentic ways of life are reduced to empty rituals of consumption (Ritzer, 2004).

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

Commodity fetishism

A

Commodity fetishism - the process whereby the material origins of commodities are obscured and they are presented ‘innocent’ of the social and geographical relations of production that produced them.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

Baudrillard, 1988b

A

problematizes the concept of fetishism, showing how it reproduces a modernist conviction that form obscures substance, that truth lies beyond the surface of display, and reality behind the mask. He argues that Marx’s distinction between use-value and exchange-value is is elf a form of mysticism, that material function and economic worth are abstractions and merely part of ‘sign value’.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

Consumption

A

set of practices through which new cultural identities are formed and new places and networks take shape.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

Gabriel and Lang, 1996

A

Research shows that consumers are not manipulated dupes of forces of production, but are in many ways ‘unmanageable’

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

Corrigan, 1997

A

Academics now argue that ‘consumption, and not production, is the central motor of society’ or ‘the vanguard of history’

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

Bourdieu (1984)

A

onsumer choices are never merely personal judgements, but constitute ‘position-taking’ within a hierarchy of competencies distributed largely according to education.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly