consumer capitalism

collocation in English

meaningsofconsumerandcapitalism

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consumer
noun[C]
uk
/kənˈsjuː.mər/us
/kənˈsuː.mɚ/
a person who buys goods or services for their ...
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capitalism
noun[U]
uk
/ˈkæp.ɪ.təl.ɪ.zəm/us
/ˈkæp.ə.t̬əl.ɪ.zəm/
an economic and political system in which property, business, and industry are controlled by private owners rather than by the state, with the purpose of making ...
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(Definition ofconsumerandcapitalismfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Despite the benefits it has brought, the victory ofconsumercapitalismremains hard to take.
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Because of their lack of power in relation to men, women have a heightened vulnerability to the dehumanizing, objectifying prerogatives ofconsumercapitalism.
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It shows both the gross and confining limitedness of choice underconsumercapitalismand optimism in the way that the people who live there retrieve a life within it.
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A new glass culture emerged in order to complete the lightness of this design, embracing the new values of facade and the display ofconsumercapitalism.
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En route, however, he describes "the ideology of the unique self" setting up an informed modernism (6) before postmodernism "replicates or reproduces - reinforces - the logic ofconsumercapitalism" (20).
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Showalter was reportedly severely criticized by her academic colleagues for her stance in favour of patriarchal symbols ofconsumercapitalismand traditional femininity.
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The jacket copy describes the book as a broadside againstconsumercapitalism, and this is a recurring theme throughout.
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Cool has become the central ideology ofconsumercapitalism.
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In the 21st century, scholars have read this story as a parable ofconsumercapitalism.
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This is a philosophical book related to the nature and consequences of advancedconsumercapitalism.
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In their view, the masses are precisely dominated by an all-encompassing culture industry obeying only to the logic ofconsumercapitalism.
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Crumbling and covered with litter and graffiti, everything is in a state of bleak decay, overlit by the neon signs of trashyconsumercapitalism.
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It depends upon a new kind of individualism - "projective individualism", where persons useconsumercapitalismto project the kind of person who they want to be.
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