Nor do the supposedly post-materialistic classes escape: the Guardian joins the roll call of fetishised products.
In his view, the few pathways open to a young black man — dead-end jobs and smothering family relations, a fast and dangerous life of pleasure, and vulgarly materialistic middle-class ambition — are all unpalatable.
For centuries, people have ridiculed American culture for being tepid, materialistic and middle class.
If they were more materialistic, more middle class - in the word that Karl Marx hated but I rather like - more bourgeois, they would be more peaceful and pleasant.
All roads are leading us to a different type of politics: less liberal and materialistic, communitarian and ordinary, class-based, anchored in everyday experience.
By the mid-19th century, painting was no longer basically in service to either the church or the court; rather, it was patronized by the upper and middle classes of an increasingly materialistic and secularized Western society.
They are indeed like every dysfunctional family of their class or, rather, like every tabloid cliché of the rich American dysfunctional family: the materialistic, social-climbing wife who either ignores her children or channels her narcissistic ambitions through them and her crass, competitive husband, a neglectful philanderer.
They also feared it would spell the end of Labour's vision of a "cradle to grave" welfare state, as working class people embraced a more materialistic, Thatcherite way of life.
If there is a mismatch between the prosperity of our material culture and the enrichment of our spiritual world, it would be easy for the upper social class to develop a highly materialistic consumer attitude that will weaken the whole society's developmental value.
We middle classes are not all conventional, capitalist, materialistic, home-owning bores, I promise you.
Dissecting England's pre-World War I class system through a clash of materialistic and emancipated families, the film stars Emma Thompson in an Oscar-winning performance, as well as Helena Bonham Carter, Anthony Hopkins and Vanessa Redgrave - Sunday at 11 30 am. and Friday at 2 30 pm. on HBO.
