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HOARDING IN A LIQUID MODERN SOCIETY The above constructions of hoarding are developed in frames that emphasize individual conduct. They focus on the ways in which individuals behave in society and the subsequent reactions to those behaviours. While they recognize hoarding as a behaviour stemming from increased accumulation and a lack of discard, they look solely to the individual to explain why those behaviours are occurring. They then attempt to remedy the situation by either labeling the behaviour as a disease and prescribing medical intervention, or by encouraging moral campaigners to advocate ‘normal’ levels of cleanliness and organization to produce self-regulation. Both constructions suggest that the behaviour is wrong or bad and causes harm. Neither considers the social structures that may influence the behaviours. I encourage an alternative approach to hoarding behaviour that adds consideration for changing social structures in society. I emphasize the relationship between the objective conditions of hoarding, accumulation and a lack of discard, and the current state of consumer society. Although social theorists have yet to make a connection between consumer culture and hoarding, both topics contain similar aspects of accumulation and discard. In addition to consideration for the objective conditions of hoarding, I add my own subjective approach that places hoarding within a liquid modern framework. The conflicts in space and time that constitute current society can be said to create conditions that are ideal for hoarding behaviour to occur, accounting for its increasing presence in society. This approach also allows for a questioning of hoarding’s classification as a ‘problem’; if the objective conditions of hoarding are naturally occurring due to societal chang- 104
es, they may be considered less problematic than previous constructions deem them to be. My approach provides an alternative social problem construction of hoarding that may have future implications for how society views the behaviour. The objective conditions of hoarding are those that are present in all cases of hoarding to some extent, and thus they must be included in any analysis of the behaviour. While most constructions of hoarding consider the objective conditions in relation to individual actions, I consider them in a larger frame of current consumer society. Both consumer theory and hoarding rely on accumulating and discarding material goods to describe what is happening in either society or a particular situation. The ideologies and concepts developed by theorists, despite having never been tied to hoarding, aid in describing the origin of accumulative behaviours that are both promoted and encouraged in society. 105
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CONTENTS 09 Introduction 15 What is
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THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF HOARDING
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professionals have approached the b
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eader that he/ she is going through
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WHAT IS HOARDING? Many people today
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larger accumulation of goods that m
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these approaches, however, frame th
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CONSUMER THEORY While investigating
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Karl Marx opens Capital Volume One
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While a commodity is often describe
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The Dependence Effect The problemat
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Although advertising is more often
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view of the current world. The mani
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tend to be consumed bjects, which b
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The shift from modernity to postmod
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phasizes the inconsistency of time
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controlled by objects instead of pe
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A medical construction of hoarding
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the best way to identify a social p
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terpretation of ow social acf the b
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Each approach addresses the objecti
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Hoarding as a medical construction
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Page 107 and 108: OBJECT ATTACHMENT Ideologies involv
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Page 111 and 112: Liquid modernity describes a consta
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Page 127 and 128: The complex nature of hoarding as a
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