Essay Plan
Introduction
Give brief outline to essay, paragraph by paragraph. Consumer society? Bauman. Veblen claims, Supermarket winners? Losers?
Paragraph 1
Industrial society Rich, poor divide intensified
Meaning of consumption meaning or social divides
Main social division lessened, intensified?
Heatherington cited Bauman
Paragraph 2
Age, disability divide
Paragraph 3
Gender divide, Victorian times women not allowed out alone.
Paragraph 4
Bauman’s claim seduced, repressed. Not as black and white as it seems
Paragraph 5
Veblen conspicuous consumption. Nineteenth century the seduced of today?
Paragraph 6
Supermarkets winners, losers Allens view
Conclusion
Summarise essay
My view on new social divisions.
Comment [J1]: Clear essay plan
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Outline the claim that consumption creates new social divisions.
The purpose of this essay is to outline the claim that consumption creates new social divisions. Consumption is the, use and disposal of goods and services. The essay will start by looking at the meaning of ‘consumer society’ and those who are better …show more content…
Today Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Morrison’s and Asda take three out of every four pounds spent on groceries (Bevan cited in Allen, 2012, p.57). In many small towns the dominance of these large chains has been linked to the closing of small businesses such as butchers and greengrocers. With the four main chains battling for dominance there is no real choice for customers as they virtually all sell the same stuff for roundabout the same price (Allen, Making social lives, 2012) .This raises the question of winners and losers in a consumer society. We saw an example of a loser in this equation in the DVD (Making social lives, 2009, scene 3) when a local newsagent Colin Butwell told us of the impact on his small shop that the large supermarket had on it. In his loss of