Consumerism ia a pattern of behavior that is basically refers to social and economic systems where our creations and the desire to purchase goods and services at a higher and faster rate which then creates of what causes and affected our today's ways of consumption; damaging such as our environment, economy, society and human institution.
Moreover, the term "consumerism" is also used to refer to the consumerist movement or can be also referred to as consumer activism, where it attempt to restrict by law and inform consumers by requiring practices such as packaging and advertising that were to be shown without any doubts about what they are presenting and offering to the consumers.
By consuming things like food, clothing, DVDs, and computers we are drawn into a set of complex, asymmetrical, and changing relationships with other people over time. Therefore, consumerism is considered and to be seen as relational, and historically contingent.
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