Dd131 Tma 2

Essay Plan
Intro

Explain how I’m going answer the question (?)
Keep it short and simple, include  
· What assignment is about
· What I am going to do in the text that follows
· Name some of the theories ill look at.

Para 1
Need to define what a consumer society is. (perhaps see chap. 1?)
· Use Bauman’s Seduced/Repressed theory

Para 2
Explain the theories
· Thompson theory
· Jordan’s ‘Junk Art’
· Recycling (? Not sure)

Para 3

Stevengraphs (silk work)
· Market model (supply and demand)

Para 4

· Chris Jordan’s ‘Junk Art’, Aesthetic value?
· Recycling – Most people do it.

Conclusion
Do not add anything else in!!  
Draw everything together.
Summarise how I have done this.
What is the outcome?

Outline The Ways in which rubbish can be said to have value in a consumer society
I am going to look at the various ways in which rubbish can be said to have value in a consumer society. To do this I will be looking and studying the Introducing the Social Sciences, Making Social Lives Textbook, and exploring in depth some of the theories and ideas that are presented by some social scientists. Theories like Bauman’s seduced and repressed theory, Thompsons rubbish theory and Jordan’s ‘Junk Art’ also help to explain how rubbish can just be rubbish to some but also how it can also at times have value to others. The evidence that is provided to us will help to outline how rubbish can be said to have value in a consumer society.
A consumer society is a term used by social scientists to describe a society that is defined by how and what people have purchased and used as by what they do (Introducing the Social Sciences, Making Social Lives, Chapter 1, page 13). Zygmunt Bauman (1988) believes that we now live in a consumer society, rather than an industrial society. To put this into simpler terms, we are now ruled as a society by our financial and social circumstances, rather than by what it is we do for a living. This gives us the choice to... [continues]

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