The Consumer Society
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The Consumer Society is a seminal sociological and philosophical work by Jean Baudrillard that critically analyzes modern consumer culture, mass media, and the symbolic role of commodities in everyday life.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14076528 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Consumer Society Context triple: [Jean Baudrillard, notableWork, The Consumer Society]
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The Revolution of Everyday Life
The Revolution of Everyday Life is a seminal Situationist text by Raoul Vaneigem that critiques everyday alienation under capitalism and advocates for a radical transformation of daily life through spontaneity, play, and individual autonomy.
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The Decline and Rise of the Consumer
"The Decline and Rise of the Consumer" is a work by philosopher and cultural pluralism advocate Horace M. Kallen that examines the role, power, and rights of consumers within modern industrial and democratic society.
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C.
The Acquisitive Society
The Acquisitive Society is a 1920 book by British social critic R. H. Tawney that offers a moral and economic critique of capitalism and argues for a more socially responsible and egalitarian economic order.
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D.
The Industrial Society
The Industrial Society is a sociological work by Raymond Aron that analyzes the structures, dynamics, and implications of modern industrialized societies.
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E.
The Stalled Society
The Stalled Society is a sociological work by Michel Crozier analyzing the structural and cultural causes of institutional paralysis and resistance to change in modern societies, particularly France.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Consumer Society Target entity description: The Consumer Society is a seminal sociological and philosophical work by Jean Baudrillard that critically analyzes modern consumer culture, mass media, and the symbolic role of commodities in everyday life.
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A.
The Revolution of Everyday Life
The Revolution of Everyday Life is a seminal Situationist text by Raoul Vaneigem that critiques everyday alienation under capitalism and advocates for a radical transformation of daily life through spontaneity, play, and individual autonomy.
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B.
The Decline and Rise of the Consumer
"The Decline and Rise of the Consumer" is a work by philosopher and cultural pluralism advocate Horace M. Kallen that examines the role, power, and rights of consumers within modern industrial and democratic society.
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C.
The Acquisitive Society
The Acquisitive Society is a 1920 book by British social critic R. H. Tawney that offers a moral and economic critique of capitalism and argues for a more socially responsible and egalitarian economic order.
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D.
The Industrial Society
The Industrial Society is a sociological work by Raymond Aron that analyzes the structures, dynamics, and implications of modern industrialized societies.
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E.
The Stalled Society
The Stalled Society is a sociological work by Michel Crozier analyzing the structural and cultural causes of institutional paralysis and resistance to change in modern societies, particularly France.
- F. None of above. chosen
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