The phrase "encourage consumerism" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the promotion or support of consumer behavior and spending.
Example: "The marketing campaign was designed to encourage consumerism during the holiday season."
Alternatives: "promote consumer spending" or "foster consumer culture."
Alabama and Oklahoma lawmakers aren't trying to go quite that far, but — for all the wrong reasons — they could be at the vanguard of scrubbing top-down support for an institution that continues to affirm stale gender roles, that continues to keep the church too close to the state and that continues to encourage consumerism through costly wedding celebrations.
Don't feel bad for not wanting to participate in mass events that encourage consumerism, nationalism, or throwing away all independent thinking to a poorly thought through "common" cause whipped up by the media or corporate sponsors.
Social scientist Juliet Schor shows that extensive screen time encourages consumerism, leading children to value money and brands.
Instead of encouraging consumerism, they could focus on educating their prospects into being responsible home buyers.
Italians buy a disproportionate number of toys from small, local makers.UNICEF, a United Nations agency, slates British parents for encouraging "compulsive consumerism" in their children.
The writer imagined a society in which family was outlawed, recreational sex with multiple partners was encouraged and consumerism was worshipped as the new religion.
I love that they are encouraging conscience consumerism.
I've witnessed spectacles of gourmet gluttony and wasteful indulgence that pique my constant (if latent) guilt about encouraging excessive consumerism.
Yet this is hardly a desirable state of affairs and more worryingly, our current culture in education will encourage increased atomisation, consumerism and contempt for public servants.
Consumerism encourages a desire for money and material goods.
* Physicians who preferred consumerism were no more likely to encourage patients to look for information than physicians who preferred shared decision-making (OR 1.37; 95% CI 0.65 – 2.88).
