Materialists necessarily we hurried and therefore seek quick solutions and are easily frustrated. The third point is that there are cultural and political consequences to materialistic values that go quite beyond private consumer concerns and life-style decisions. By de Tocqueville's analysis, egalitarianism hold in contrast to hierarchical class structure will result in materialism, and mass materialism will result in recourse to mysticism. The second point is that there are internal dynamics to human values that allow predictions of certain consequences for certain values. society in the early 19th century, 150 years before the appearance of contemporary correlates of materialism now cited as its causes.
Materialism was one of the most notable traits of U.S. The first is that American materialism is not a phenomenon of recent affluence, recent commercialization of culture, or recent political leadership. The purpose of this poster session paper is to use the single example of de Tocqueville's Democracy in America to highlight three points often overlooked by scholars and journalists currently interested in materialism. Rudmin, School of Business/Faculty of Law, Queen's University, Canada MATERIALISM AND MILITARISM: DE TOCQUEVILLE ON AMERICA'S HOPELESS HURRY TO HAPPINESSįloyd W. Meaning, Measure, and Morality of Materialism, 1992 Pages 110-112 Rudmin and Marsha Richins, Provo, UT : Association for Consumer Research, Pages: 110-112. Rudmin (1992) ,"Materialism and Militarism: De Tocqueville on America's Hopeless Hurry to Happiness", in SV - Meaning, Measure, and Morality of Materialism, eds. At personal and political levels, such people are prone to violence and restrain themselves only when the costs of violence are high.įloyd W.
ABSTRACT - The purpose of this poster session paper is to use the single example of de Tocqueville's Democracy in America to highlight three points often overlooked by scholars and journalists currently interested in materialism.
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