The Discourse on Identity in a Global Consumption–Based Society. Between Myth and Reality
Journal Title: Studies in Global Ethics and Global Education - Year 2014, Vol 1, Issue
Abstract
The continuosly transforming contemporary world has altered the process of identity creation. Consequently, the contemporaneous discouse on identity is subject to fundamental metamorphoses. The power of consumption, in its broadest sense, represents one of the major factors that affects the way people conceive an perceive their and others' indentities. Ultimately, the social relations are also functioning differently. The basic purpose of this paper is to understand whether people are losing their identities or whether they are creating new ones. It is an attempt to identtify the positive and/or negative aspects of consumption in the process of identity creation. The paradoxical connection between the contemporaneous discourse on identity and the process of consumption is expressed in Baudrillard's concept of consumption as a system of signs. Baudrillard considers consumers to be “mutually implicated, in a general system of exchange and in the production of coded values.”
Authors and Affiliations
Viorica Palamarciuc
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP80223
- DOI -
- Views 114
- Downloads 0
Postawy etyczne wobec nierówności zgodnie z klasyfikacją F. Stewart a efektywność ekonomiczna
W literaturze przedmiotu niewiele jest badań, które łączyłyby rozważania dotyczące poziomu wyników ekonomicznych z ustaleniami etycznymi odnośnie do zjawiska nierówności. Bada się jedynie wpływ głębokości rozwarstwienia...
Posthuman – Postnature? Transhumanism and Environmental Ethics
The author proposes a set of possible objections and amendments to the notion of transhumanism that can be made from the standpoint of environmental ethics. The transhumanist movement, as it is developed by such research...
At the Root of Alternative Thinking. A Critical Analysis of Bogdan Suchodolski’s Study on Stanisław Brzozowski
The article introduces the criticism of the Polish version of “philosophy of life” (Lebensphilopsohie) developed by Stanisław Brzozowski and further developed by Bogdan Suchodolski. Being the most distinguished Polish re...
Who Deserves Help? The Support for Selected Prosocial Initiatives Among Students of Universities of Warsaw
The article presents a study concerning the attitudes towards selected prosocial initiatives among the students of various universities in Warsaw in perspective of Melvin Lerner’s just-world fallacy and Roland Inglehart’...
Strona Tytułowa