The rise of the consumer culture is a phenomenon characterizing the 20th and 21st centuries, where the economy depends on the population's spending on goods and services. Before the Industrial Revolution – that is, before the 18th century in England, or the 19th century in Western Europe and North America – the majority of population lived in rural areas and worked in agriculture, where the resources for production were limited. ... It is generally believed that advertising manipulates the society through the products of consumer culture and promotes a false understanding o...

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Sociological Institutionalism aims to focus on the normative changes and values that shift overtime in the culture of a given society. ... Culture is the institution, in this case and culture itself acts as a morphis of this institution, and this might be difficult to understand, but it begins with the norms and the values, as it pertains to religion, beliefs, perceptions, priorities etc Sociological Institution begins with a common identity. ... It is quite difficult to generalize communities on a global scale, when so many different communities across the world are comprised of differing so...

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This is significant as there is a historical, political and cultural motive for the formation of this movement culture which continues to this day. ... Essentially a New Social Movement is general considered any social movement that was formed after the student movements which occurred in Europe and the US in the late 1960's (Marjorie Mayo, 2005:61). The cause of the formation of New Social Movements as Touraine highlighted was the fact that at the time a new class of educated, middle class, youth in Europe had emerged from a post-industrial society which meant these people were able to t...

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