A Study On The Transformation Of Consumption Pattern From The Perspective Of Philosophy

The purpose of this paper is to explore to construct an appropriate consumption mode suited to our current patterns of development by means of transforming consumption mode, according to the research of our stage of transformation of economic growth.This article is analyzing and researching the consumption patterns from the perspective of philosophy, history and social development.The methods of the paper are philosophical analysis and historical analysis. In the paper, the concept of consumption and consumption patterns are investigated; the changing consumption patterns in the history are summarized and combed; the production formation, performance, characteristics and hazards of contemporary capitalist mode are analyzed in detail; China’s consumption mode in the history and at present are analyzed and evaluated. On this basis, I draw the conclusion that measures China should establish sustainable consumption mode, and I analyzed and discussed the connotation of sustainable consumption mode of extension, contents and characteristics, and finally I explore the ways of constructing sustainable consumption mode.Besides the introduction, the full paper is divided into five chapters.The first chapter analyzes the connotation of the concept of consumption and consumption patterns and basic features. This chapter first traces the origin and evolution of the concept of consumption and consumption mode, starting from Marx’s standpoint and point of view, from the angle of philosophy, defines the concept of consumption and consumption patterns, and reveals the basic features of it. It clarifies that consumption is a way of human survival and development. It meets the needs of basic activities and human. It is the process of object and subject and object oriented. It is natural, social, cultural and hierarchy. Consumption pattern refers to in certain social and economic conditions, the combination ways between the subject of consumption and consumption object(namely consumption data), including what capacity the main consumer is, in what form, what method to use to consumption, how to meet the various needs, which is the unity of subject and object, the unity of unity, individual and group of nature and society. And the relationship between consumption and productivity, and the natural environment, consumption patterns and consumption patterns of science and technology, and social system, ideology and culture of consumption from the consumption patterns, consumption patterns and demonstrates the change of social development.The second chapter investigates the historical transformation of consumption mode. This chapter indicates that human consumption mode has experienced two fundamental changes. The first mode of consumption change occurred in the late primitive society, namely the transition from hunting and fishing, picking the human society to the agricultural society. As the master of meteorological knowledge of astronomy, people gradually mastered the agricultural technology and iron technology, and expanded the scale of agriculture. With that, humans began to enter agricultural society, surplus products stable, consumption patterns are shared by the average distribution. Food consumption mode changed to the family consumption. This change marked a steady growth and stable growth of the food that can support larger population, which is the beginning of human civilization. The second change in consumption pattern was in early capitalism, namely the transformation from agricultural society to industrial society period. With the scientific revolution and the industrial revolution, the social productive forces were greatly improved, with the rapid development of automobile industry is a symbol of Western capitalist countries, as a result, consumption patterns also change from agricultural society to the family of thrifty consumption patterns to the industrial form of mass consumption.The third chapter is about the capitalist mode of production(consumerism) analysis and criticism. This chapter analyzes the cause of formation, the nature and harm of the capitalist mode of production. Capitalist mode of production is the inevitable outcome of the capitalist mode of production, which is decided by the nature of the infinite proliferation. Capitalist industrialization is the material basis of consumption pattern, is the internal requirement of capital proliferation and expansion of credit(credit), tool development and commercial advertising promotes the formation of. The early bourgeois ereferred to thrift as a virture, but with the development of capitalist economy and repeated economic crisis, the economists increasingly recognised the powerful role of consumption in economic operation, and gradually formed the economic consumption theories, which made the consumerism in the twentieth century become the main stream of the capitalist world economy, rising to become the general ideology in Western countries. Consumerism is the premise of social polarization between the rich and the poor, the trend is excessive consumption, the essence is the alienation of consumption. The prevalence of consumerism has caused a series of negative effects, leading to the inequality between person and person, the global shortage of resources and deterioration of the ecological environment. Due to the rigid constraints of global resources and environment, the capitalist mode of consumption is not sustainable.The fourth chapter is analysing and evaluating China’s current consumption mode. In our country for a long time in the agricultural society, the traditional virtues was thrift. From the founding of New China in 1949 to the end of the cultural revolution, China remained its basically subsistence consumption. Since the reform and opening policy, with the rapid development of productivity, the consumption level s is also rising, transforming from subsistence to a consumption pattern. Currently it is becoming from the thrifty type to enjoying the changing period. The main problems existing in consumption patterns in our country at present are: the contradiction between the growth of consumption of resources and environment; the widening gap in social consumption; consumption growth is lower than the investment growth; the lack of consumption and excessive consumption and so on.The fifth chapter is about the countermeasure research of changing consumption patterns in China. According to the resource characteristics, environment pressure and the current situation, it is not realistic to adopt western consumerism, our country should only choose the low consumption mode, less pollution, sustainable consumption patterns. Sustainable consumption is the goal,-----to meet basic human needs and the comprehensive development, to beconducive to the harmonious coexistence between man and nature, the harmonious relationship between people and the nation and the national equality.This new consumption patterns is to discard the alienation of consumption. The new consumption mode should be the unity of the development and sustainability, the unity of purpose and regularity. Its connotation includes moderate consumption, ecological consumption, civilization and fair consumption. To establish the sustainable consumption mode, we need two changes from two aspects of consumption structure. Firstly, guarantee the necessary consumption, encourage reasonable consumption, excessive consumption; secondly, rely on scientific and technological progress, the development of recycling economy, the establishment of ecological consumption patterns; thirdly, establish a new consumption culture, regulate the consumption behavior of the government and the people; fourthly, seek international cooperation, change the current unreasonable international consumption patterns, finally abandon the capitalist mode of production, establish sustainable consumption patterns in the global scope. Although the transformation of consumption mode is a long process, but with the deepening of the development of the society and the awareness of consumption patterns, sustainable consumption patterns will replace he current unreasonable consumption.