Steps. 1  1. Figure out how bad it really is. Take the quiz below, adding up every time you answered yes. 2  2. Do not feel bad about not reading the digital avalanche of email, blog posts, or web content. You'll never be caught up and that's okay. 3  3. Don't read everything word for word.
Consumerism as a social and economic order and ideology encourages the acquisition of goods and services in ever-increasing amounts.ance Packard worked to change the meaning of the term consumerism from a positive word about consumer practices to a negative word meaning excessive materialism and waste. The ads for his 1960 book The Waste Makers prominently featured the word consumerism in a negative way.
This, in turn, derives from earlier sociological theories of in-groups and out-groups (Shimp & Sharma, 1987). Ethnocentrism, it is consistently found, is normal for an in-group to an out-group (Jones, 1997; Ryan & Bogart, 1997).Consumer ethnocentrism specifically refers to ethnocentric views held by consumers in one country, the in-group, towards products from another country, the out-group (Shimp & Sharma, 1987).Consumers may believe that it is not appropriate, and possibly even immoral, to buy products from other countries.thnocentrism, it is consistently found, is normal for an in-group to an out-group (Jones, 1997; Ryan & Bogart, 1997).