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- Title: Religious Groups and "Affluenza": Further Exploration of the Tv-Materialism Link (Essay)
- Author : Journal of Religion and Popular Culture
- Release Date : January 22, 2010
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 221 KB
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Across the six studies heavier TV viewing generally correlated with materialist values, especially the value of "making a lot of money" for the young. The results validate Georg Simmel's observation that even those devoutly dedicated to salvation and the soul are influenced by the culture, and mediated culture is saturated with a disempowering and ultimately unsatisfying consumerism. The recently concocted term "affluenza" already has been in the titles of three books: Affluenza (James 2007); Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic (deGraaf, Wann, and Naylor 2005); Affluenza: When Too Much is Never Enough (Hamilton and Denniss 2005), two documentaries, Affluenza and Escape from Affluenza (deGraaf, Boe, and Simon 1997; Boe, deGraaf, and Urbanska 1998), and even a stage play Affluenza! (Sherman 2006). The term suggests that excess materialism is a social contagion, draining global resources, straining lives, and debasing values in the dogged pursuit of more (deGraaf, Wann, and Naylor).