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Teaching About Consumption: The 'Not Buying it' Project
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Grauerholz, Liz, and Anne Bubriski-McKenzie. 2012. “Teaching About Consumption: The ’Not Buying it’ Project”. TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology, October. Washington DC: American Sociological Association. https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/teaching-about-consumption-the-not-buying-it.

Abstract

overconsumption in the United States and allow them to see how their own consumption which involved refraining from purchasing all but essentials for a set number of daysas part of a broader lesson on consumerism. Qualitative and quantitative data, gathered from students enrolled in three sections of Introductory Sociology, suggest that the exercise was...

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Subject Area(s):
Introduction to Sociology/Social Problems
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Assignment
Class Level(s):
Any Level
Class Size(s):
Any

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