Consumerism And Its Transcendence Research

Consumption is the basic survival needs of human beings.People's production and life can not do without consumption.Since the emergence of human society,consumption has been accompanied by the development of human society,showing the evolution of consumption itself.With the improvement of productivity and social progress,especially the arrival of capitalist society,consumption plays a greater role.Before the capitalist society,consumption is just the way that people exchange the surplus products to meet the demand of survival.Under capitalist society,consumption is not only to meet the demand of people's production and living needs but also to promote economic development.and realize the capitalist economy mode boost.It is the tool that used to realize the capitalist economy mode boot capital value-added means.With the continuous expansion of consumption and the impact of consumption,consumerism will persistently play a role in the context of capitalist society.Consumerism has experienced a long historical process from germination,formation and maturity to the development of the stage.Different stages of development have different characteristics.Consumerism first sprouted in the European continent.Under the influence of colonial rule and capital expansion,Consumerism began to spread to the united states.After nineteenth Century,consumerism in the United States has been a new development and emergence of possessive consumption,conspicuous consumption,symbolic consumption and other forms of consumption.Nowadays,consumerism continues to change.In the western capitalist society,consumerism is embodied in the way of the people's consumption demand from meeting the basic needs of the material consumption to develop into a mightily desire for consumption.People of the western consumer society in order to meet the desire of their consumption purposes,their consumer lifestyles,consumer attitudes and consumer culture full of consumerism.People are pursuing the idea that everything can be used to consume and we can consume everything.Consumption is the power to dominate everything.Consumerism is the product of the development of western capitalism.The politics,economy and culture of capitalist society provide advantage for consumerism.The essence of consumerism is the capitalist ideology,which is subordinated to the purpose of capital appreciation.There is no denying thatconsumerism brings a positive effect in a certain sense.In the long run,the prevalence of consumerism brings more disadvantages than good effects.The negative effects of human resources,such as waste of resources,destruction of environment,alienation of consumption and consumption psychology,and so on,bring great threat to the healthy development of human society.Under the international environment of capital globalization,consumerism is spreading all over the world.Since the reform and opening up,consumerism in the western society has brought many negative effects on Chinese Society.Combing the history of consumerism,revealing the essence of consumerism and realizing the harm caused by consumerism are beneficial to curb consumerism and actively seek effective ways to deal with consumerism.