This paper advances the argument that it is the high value attached to the new and the novel that is the major source of hyper-consumption in modern Western, and indeed developing, societies. Three different forms of the new are identified – the new as the fresh, the innovative, and the novel – each of which is then related to an analytically distinct form of consumption. Each is examined in turn and evidence presented to show that the extent to which consumers engage in this form of consumption has accelerated in recent years. The reasons for this increase are then found in both the rapidity of technological advance and the decline in the average cost of products. The possibility of a slowing of this accelerating consumption of the new is then considered in the face of the central value attached to the new in Western civilization.
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Le concept de consommation ostentatoire developpe par Veblen bien que largement utilise n'a pourtant jamais ete examine de facon vraiment critique et cela du fait de l'incapacite a trouver un critere de definition du phenomene. Cette difficulte est elle-meme liee a l'imprecision de la theorie de Veblen. Celle-ci vehicule a la fois une analyse interpretative, subjective qui concoit la consommation ostentatoire comme action finalisee et une formulation fonctionnaliste qui en fait une conduite caracterisee par des fins particulieres
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Pub Date : 1994-09-01DOI: 10.1080/08913819408443358
C. Campbell
The tendency to denigrate consumerism derives from the widespread acceptance of sociological theories that represent consumers as prompted by such reprehensible motives as greed, pride, or envy. These theories are largely unsubstantiated and fail to address the distinctive features of modern consumption, such as the apparent insatiability of wants and the preference for the novel over the familiar. A more plausible view of consumerism regards it as an aspect of hedonism, and links consumption to the widespread practice of daydreaming. Seen in this light, one can discern an idealistic dimension to modern consumption.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-83681-8_5
C. Campbell
{"title":"The Meaning of Objects and the Meaning of Actions: A Critical Note on the Sociology of Consumption and Theories of Clothing","authors":"C. Campbell","doi":"10.1007/978-3-030-83681-8_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83681-8_5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":402602,"journal":{"name":"Consumption and Consumer Society","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123882130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.4135/9781446216972.N8
C. Campbell
{"title":"Shopping, Pleasure and the Sex War","authors":"C. Campbell","doi":"10.4135/9781446216972.N8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4135/9781446216972.N8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":402602,"journal":{"name":"Consumption and Consumer Society","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131652384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Both academic and popular discussion of consumption tend to centre around two dominant discourses or rhetorics. These are those of need (satisfaction) and want (desire). These rhetorics relate to contrasting models of human action with associated ideologies. The need rhetoric has its origin in a Puritan-inspired utilitarian philosophy of comfort and satisfaction, while the want or desire rhetoric has its origin in a Romantic-inspired philosophy of pleasure-seeking. Although both ideologies and their associated rhetorics are institutionalized in contemporary society, it is the former that tends to have greater legitimacy. This paper looks at the various relationships which it has been suggested exist between these two rhetorics in theories of consumption, examining these as they have been represented historically, bio-psychologically and sociologically. Finally, materialfrom the author's current research on shopping is used to demonstrate how these two rhetorics are related to gender roles, as well as employed by individuals to help them accomplish their consumption goals.
{"title":"Consumption and the Rhetorics of Need and Want","authors":"C. Campbell","doi":"10.1093/JDH/11.3.235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/JDH/11.3.235","url":null,"abstract":"Both academic and popular discussion of consumption tend to centre around two dominant discourses or rhetorics. These are those of need (satisfaction) and want (desire). These rhetorics relate to contrasting models of human action with associated ideologies. The need rhetoric has its origin in a Puritan-inspired utilitarian philosophy of comfort and satisfaction, while the want or desire rhetoric has its origin in a Romantic-inspired philosophy of pleasure-seeking. Although both ideologies and their associated rhetorics are institutionalized in contemporary society, it is the former that tends to have greater legitimacy. This paper looks at the various relationships which it has been suggested exist between these two rhetorics in theories of consumption, examining these as they have been represented historically, bio-psychologically and sociologically. Finally, materialfrom the author's current research on shopping is used to demonstrate how these two rhetorics are related to gender roles, as well as employed by individuals to help them accomplish their consumption goals.","PeriodicalId":402602,"journal":{"name":"Consumption and Consumer Society","volume":"107 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131467812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-83681-8_9
C. Campbell
{"title":"The Craft Consumer: Culture, Craft and Consumption in a Postmodern Society","authors":"C. Campbell","doi":"10.1007/978-3-030-83681-8_9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83681-8_9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":402602,"journal":{"name":"Consumption and Consumer Society","volume":"153 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126132586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-83681-8_2
C. Campbell
{"title":"The Desire for the New: Its Nature and Social Location as Presented in Theories of Fashion and Modern Consumerism","authors":"C. Campbell","doi":"10.1007/978-3-030-83681-8_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83681-8_2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":402602,"journal":{"name":"Consumption and Consumer Society","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127877552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-83681-8_11
Colin Campbell
{"title":"A Matter of Necessity: Reflections on Need and Want in a Time of Lockdown","authors":"Colin Campbell","doi":"10.1007/978-3-030-83681-8_11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83681-8_11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":402602,"journal":{"name":"Consumption and Consumer Society","volume":"205 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116509098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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