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...Thompson created a consumer??s guide called “Taking Charge of Health Information,” which appears at the beginning of Risk In Perspective. The original guide included four cartoons, and its publication sparked the idea of assembling an entire book of cartoons...
...have only just begun an intellectual dialogue that considers the enormous impact of pop culture on our society. American Studies Professor Lizabeth Cohen recently published her work Consumer??s Republic, a massive volume that examined post-war levels of consumption and their detrimental effects on society. Government Professor Robert D. Putnam cites pop culture vehicles like television and the Internet as reasons why the fabric of community in America has unwoven. Former economics and women’s studies professor Juliet Schor offered a popular class titled “Shop ’til You Drop...
Cohen also argues that women were not active participants in the new consumer??s republic. By pointing out that women were denied credit until the mid-1970s, Cohen created a more complicated picture of an era of good but unfulfilled intentions...
LIZABETH COHEN. Bancroft Prize winner, Pulitzer finalist and Harvard professor of history Lizabeth Cohen discusses her new book, A Consumer??s Republic: Mass Consumption in Postwar America, Friday, Feb. 7 at 3 p.m. at the Harvard Book Store. Cohen’s book re-examines how American consumption patterns after the World War II changed political campaigning and helped create the conditions for some of the most powerful forms of activism on behalf of civil rights...
...authors assert that a number of factors, including universities’ response to the Vietnam War and the campus turmoil of the 1960s. The rise of the concept of “student as consumer?? in the 1980s, when students and parents began to see education as a product and grades as indicative of its quality, also contributed to grade inflation...