• Please answer 3 questions: at least one from each section.
• Read the questions carefully. Before answering the question, spend a few minutes to make some brief notes.
• Only authorised dictionaries should be used during the examination.
• If you require more writing paper or have any queries, please raise your hand.
• Please allow sufficient time to complete all three questions (one hour for each question).

• Students will not be allowed to leave the room 15 minutes before the end of the examination. If you have any spare time, check over your answers.

1. What are the features of the consumer culture, and how does it relate to ‘modernity’?

2. Evaluate the liberals’ contribution to our understanding of the consumer.

3. ‘Consumption is morally-neutral and rational.’ Assess this statement.

4. Discuss whether the culture of consumption is a failed project for individuals and society.

5. Assess Marx’s critique of the commodity culture.

6. Explain the similarity and differences between the ideas of Bourdieu and Baudrillard.

7. Outline the ways in which ‘the shopper’ is classed and gendered.

8. Discuss how advertising exploits gender relations.

9. ‘The home is a place of private consumption.’ Evaluate this statement.

10. What factors explain the social practices of food & drink?

11. Explain in what ways tourism can be an authentic experience.

12. In what ways can fashion bring happiness and disatisfaction?

13. Suggest how consumption is gendered.