Publication (142 pages).

For Liquid Modern Society, the claim
would be that hoarding is a combination of:
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Consumer Culture
Structures that consumer culture
promotes including high rates of
acquisition and low rates of discard,
Liquid modern Time
The problematic nature of quickly
changing liquid modern time and
space.
The abundance of studies
that have been produced in
the medical field suggest that
hoarding is harmful in several
ways, including general levels
of unhappiness and health
decline including obesity and
chronic illness
lem looks at very different
aspects of the behaviour and
addresses society as a major
influencer of the situation,
which changes the approach
to the topic. Although my
analysis presents itself as a social
problem construction, I
do believe there is room for
consideration of hoarding as
a non-problematic behaviour.
If consumer culture and liquid
modernity promote certain
behaviours,they can be said to
be inherent in current society.
If the behaviours are prevalent
due to changing social structures,there
is a chance they are
not problematic. There are a
few areas that could be further
researched to answer this type
of question, including harm
or danger, personal freedom/
free will, and private property.
Whether or not hoarding is an
inherently harmful behaviour
is yet to be proven. The abundance
of studies that have been
produced in the medical field
suggest that hoarding is harmful
in several ways, including
general levels of unhappiness
and health decline including
obesity and chronic illness
(Tolin et al. 2008). These are
not causation studies however;
they do not inquire as
to whether hoarding caused
these results, or if they were
present before the hoarding
started. Likewise is the case
for strain on the welfare state;
although some studies look at
decreasing labour
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