Consumption  

From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

This structure, the Crystal Palace, built for the Great Exhibition of 1851, symbolizes the rise of consumer culture and the start of industrial design.

Luxury is a form of consumerism.
Illustration: Still Life with Nautilus Cup (1662) by Willem Kalf

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Consumption may refer to:

• Consumerism
• Resource consumption

Biology

• Consumption (ecology), receipt of energy by consuming other organisms
• The disease tuberculosis, historically

Social sciences

• Consumption (economics), the purchasing of newly produced goods for current use
  • Consumption function, an economic formula
• Consumption (sociology) of resources, associated with social class, identity, group membership, and age

See also

mass consumption, conspicuous consumption, consumerism, binge, general economy

• Consumerism