Commodity fetishism

Have you ever finish a book and said to yourself “Wow, I am going to reread this book again.”? Unfourntly, “The Ascent of Money” by Niall Ferguson isn’t a book where you will likely reread after the first read instead you will be saying “Is it finally over?” “The Ascent of Money” by Niall Ferguson explains how money came to be in our society by starting off where we see the first use of currency to the end where money has become something we can’t even touch. As a person who isn’t interested in…

division of labor, everyone had something of their own making to exchange; so, they would carry around their commodity. However, this proved to be flawed logic, as some commodities were highly impractical to carry around on one’s person every day. Thus came the need for a portable bartering chip. It seemed that universally, men “[gave] the preference, for [exchange], to metals above every other commodity” (Smith, 38). Thus, metals such as gold and silver began to be used in exchange. They both…

The United States is the third largest country by population but, per multiple statistics the Unites States has had the largest economy in the world for over 100 years. This static may be in jeopardy due to the Chinese economy growing at record speeds. China has the largest population and over the last 20 years has economic growth to match the large number of citizens in the country. If or when China overtakes the Unites States, the entire world will feel the impact of the change. Some of the…

5 of McDonald’s book Pirates, Merchants, Settlers and Slaves, the author Kevin McDonald depicted the accounts of several extremely skilled seafaring slaves, and how they managed to achieve freedom through their involvement in the global oceanic commodity trading. McDonald started the chapter with the account of Calico Jack, a “runaway slave” who “reveals a number of surprising facts of a global trade network”. (McDonald 99) Later he uses more case studies such as Thom Hicks, Marramitta the…

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One final video drives the point of how gender and sex are ingrained in society when a young boy (roughly 10 years old) compares the fandom with gay subculture, illustrating how constructions of gender have been modeled for him. Bussey and Bandura suggest, “A great deal of gender-linked information is exemplified by models in one’s immediate environment such as parents and peers, and significant persons in social, educational, and occupational contexts.” His experiences with social…

I enjoyed reading this novel very much. It was happier compared to other stories we have read this semester. When I had finished a majority of the book I was very confused as to why this was assigned to us. This book seemed outdated and I doubt I will have clients who are from this era. Footbinding is a very old custom that is no longer practiced; there may be one or two women who are still alive with bound feet. Also, the setting of this book was in the 1800s, China’s culture is significantly…

Are you a first time mother? So, at last you have delivered a healthy baby. After the nine months of pregnancy, now it is the time to bring your healthy new born home. From this moment child care starts. The time you bring your new born home is also a start of your life in purgatory. At this time you have to deal with the most important task you could ever do in your life to take the best child care for your new born. Child care is not an easy task. Everything you are going to can greatly…

Your Fast”, Marx’s theoretical concept of commodity fetishism can be seen through the use of the commodification and fetishism of celebrity athletes to distract consumers from the reality of the company’s unpleasant truth. In “Find Your Fast” 13 professional athletes are shown to be playing their sport at high speed and high intensity. These athletes are all filmed strategically to show their muscles, toned bodies, their skill at their sport, and…

Michel Taussing in The Devil and Commodity Fetishism views the peasant’s opposition in South America against the market production as the confrontation between use-value and exchange value production systems. Peasants in the rural areas of Bolivia and Colombia believe that becoming a labor for production is same as making the deal with the devil, “the contract that is said to have baneful consequences for capital and human life”: the land might become barren and the person entering the contract…