Buy & trade
Consumption is always embedded in social and cultural contexts. The consumer society is a relatively new phenomenon of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. When a person buys something, the social environment, advertisements and product images, and – last but not least – disposable income always play a role. In a society based on class the opportunities for consumption were always dependent on a person’s social status. Luxury laws laid down which sections of the population were allowed to possess which goods.
