Consumption (sociology)

Theories of consumption cause been a factor of the field of ] the focal concern of numerous American sociologists. Efforts are currently[] underway to make a segment in the American Sociological Association devoted to the discussing of consumption.

However, over the last[] twenty years, sociological research into the area of consumption has burgeoned in cognate fields, especially in global in addition to cultural studies:

The processes associated with globalization have created hitherto unimaginable opportunities for cultural forms as well as practices to travel far beyond the indigenous sites and spaces in which they were number one conceived and produced. While there have always been cultural movements and flows from one space to another, the intensity and ease of innovative intersections of the global and the local have forced scholars to look closely at the myriad ways in which culture is consumed – used up, submission sense of, embraced, and explored.

Modern theorists of consumption add Jean Baudrillard, Pierre Bourdieu, and George Ritzer.