L’indifférence pour l’humanité : la dynamique du consumérisme dans la mondialisation contemporaine

The author questions the patterns and levels of consumption in the contemporary globalized society. She analyses the cultural mechanism and presents alternative experiences of sustainable consumption that need a redefinition of the ethics and a re-focus on the human-being.

PASSOS SOARES Flavia, 1 octobre 2000

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Résumé :

This article analyses the different levels of consumption in the contemporary globalised society. Consumption transforms the modern human being into a merchandise by increasing individualism and by cancelling the ethics. She analyses the cultural mechanism of consumption and presents reflections about alternative experiences establishing an ethics that will change the priorities and put the human being in the first place.