Course Blog for Soc 3151: Social Issues and Social Policy at Baruch College
It seems as if everyone wants something different. The more unique the clothing is, the more fashionable and expensive it will be. The article “Fashion lives outside malls” by Anna Barbara Lorenzo, does a good job at describing how the mass production hurts fashion marketability. She stated:
“Mass production maybe good for certain businesses, but it [...]
When you look at fashion magazines today you see that there is more emphasis on luxury high priced items that are equated with quality. However, a lot of clothing has a dark side to it. Now not only do the rich have access to the luxury fashions but so do the middle class. The middle [...]
I read the radical perspectives article called ” When a Job Dissapears, so does the Health care”. It gave an overview of the unfortunate unemployment situation in the U.S and the jobless numbers ever increasing. The main point of the article was that not only are people losing jobs but they’re losing their health benefits [...]
I read an article from nakedcapitalism.com called “Banks Supposedly Will Cut Consumer Credit Card Lines by $931Billion if Reforms Mandated”. I thought this would be a good article to read because in our discussions in class we talked about consumerism and this relates because consumer debt is the reason why credit companies are decreasing people’s credit [...]
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