@kingssociology we explore “consumption” in our examination of personal problems x social issues, applying the sociological imagination, we cover it all 🤓
Forest - We discussed this app today to help you concentrate and stay on task! And while doing it, you get to plant real real real🌲 🌳 trees! Now that’s a cool move toward less consumption! https://t.co/wfqAYlx106
Hey @MethodsSoc3310 lets talk about fast fashion! "We discard 92 million tons of clothes-related waste each year" and were still buying more! https://t.co/vd2NtfYYjr
The Wild, Wonderful World of Estate Sales | The New Yorker. Furniture 🛏 🕰 🪑 can be recycled in the most amazing ways. Our perpetual consumption patterns often overlook it. https://t.co/bSmGV3GmHs
Psychology Behind Why We Like Expensive Things! Have you ever wanted something more expensive, when the thing you have works just fine?💰 💰💰Marketers create “placebos” to trick us into cycles of perpetual consumption. https://t.co/NPOxqihJAb
The ‘Offline Boyfriend,’ Explained. The unicorn 🦄 exists! Those who do not consume online content in the “average” way, are an interesting marker of current (perhaps future) social trends ✔️✔️✔️ https://t.co/G4y1YJVJut
That Organic Cotton T-Shirt May Not Be as Organic as You Think - How we consume “ethical” ideas should also be viewed critically 👕 👖 👗 🧢 https://t.co/kVtrr8gb1W
People waste way more food 🥬🥦🌽🥕🥒🌶🫑🥑🍆🍅🥝🥥🥐🍈🍇🍌🥓🍳🫐🥩than thought. Here's how Canada compares in its wasteful consumption of food…it ain’t pretty 🥸 https://t.co/eZ3fM1aJr4
Did you know Bitcoin has a carbon 👣 footprint?? It’s not just fake, there are consumption consequences 💰💰💰💰 Bitcoin's Energy Consumption Problem - YouTube https://t.co/ZrQrAM0Cw9
What would you reach for? What matters? This photo ethnography explains what we value most 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🏠 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🚒 The Burning House: What People Would Take if the House Was on Fire – The Marginalian https://t.co/jynOeoWmIo
Over consumption impacts our planet in surprising ways. Hidden cameras and secret trackers reveal where Amazon returns end up. Some of the items we return are shredded or are never re-sold 🛻 🚚 📦 https://t.co/Pw7uhbl0Sx
Students in our class examine the concept “consumption inequality”. Disparities in “consumption inequality” promote a more nuanced view of economic inequality.
Generation Botox: How beauty ideals have turned into moral ideals. This one hour CBC exposé examines the relationship between feminism and the consumption of beauty. Has Botox become the norm? Should I do it? 💉 https://t.co/f4JHg7T52n
Why Americans buy so much stuff during Black Friday and Cyber Monday : Buy buy buy! Even after you’ve received. Material consumption doesn’t seem to end, but what drives this perpetually forward? Have a listen 🎧 https://t.co/COkaPWvfxn