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... > social science subjects > business and management > marketing (business) > consumer culture > geographies and histories of consumer culture > consumption in the United States

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consumption in the United States  

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  • Twenty-first-century Americans live in a consumer society, wherein people purchase objects and use them to define themselves and redefine relationships. Artifacts such as cars, clothing, and electronics speak to a person's ideas about self and community, conveying authority, belonging, or rebellion. [Source: Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture; Consumption in the United States: Colonial Times to the Cold War]

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