Exam 8: Consumption and Lifestyles

What is the term for a cultural drive to buy more and more things and define oneself in terms of one's possessions?

Which theoretical perspective is most closely associated with a view of consumption as a form of play involving unfettered individual choice and a preoccupation with newness, beauty and status?

In Simmel's theory of fashion, which element of the social strata were the leaders who demonstrated and defined fashionability for all other classes?

What is the term used by Jean Baudrillard to refer to the capacity of a consumer object to reference something completely unrelated to its functional value?

The way people are able to interpret or work out the myths and meanings built into objects is referred to as:

The definition of self in terms of an assemblage of consumer goods is referred to as:

Which sociologist first noted the paradox of being fashionable, whereby being 'in fashion' allowed people to feel as though they were a vital and central member of their culture, while at the same time such a feeling was based on thoughtless imitation of others?

Which writer argued that consumption is a practice of manipulating signs and symbols to send messages to oneself and others?

What is the process that refers to the increased role of how a consumer object looks in guiding consumer choice, as much as the way the object works?

What term can be used for having a strong, harmful obsession with a particular thing or consumer object?