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Consumer culture

GCSE Media Studies · key term

Consumer culture

Definition

A culture in which buying and owning goods is closely associated with pleasure, status and a desirable lifestyle.

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Eduqas GCSE Media Studies · C680

Component 1, Component 2

Growing consumer culture encouraged advertisers to connect purchases with pleasure and a better lifestyle.
Revise: Quality Street (1956)
A culture in which buying and displaying goods plays an important role in identity, status and everyday life.
Revise: Component 2 Question 4: online media

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