Sociology 4461 Critical Thinking: Consumerism in America

This is a class about questioning. Together, we will take one aspect of American society—consumerism (which we will define as the acts of selling, purchasing, and consuming)—and ask questions about why consumerism has come to occupy such a central place in our culture, why we shop the way we do, and what the effects of our behavior are on local, national, and global levels.