Translation of "Überflussgesellschaft" in English

Some anthropologists call that the original affluent society.

What does he mean by the "original affluent society"?

Such raw emotion is not possible in the West, this complete abundance.

Nowadays, existence-threatening crises are rare in our affluent society.

Unfortunately we sometimes forget this in our affluent society.

Some anthropologists call that the original affluent society, because they had bankers' hours, basically.

Her method could be seen as a political or ecological statement, as a commentary on a throwaway society.

Surreal scenes from the supermarket of the world of goods offered a provocative image of the affluent society of the west.

We must get rid of it all; we no longer need it in an affluent society like ours, that is obvious.

It is particularly pleasing to see that this programme is designed for young people who were raised in the cities of our affluent society.

Thank youthat you didn't spend your money this year on gifts that no one really needs in an affluent society like ours, because he already has everything.

In our affluent society with its continually growing supply of products of similar quality and price, the consumer readily accepts stimulation and statements to help him make his choices.

Considering her use of rubbish, Washburn’s work is often regarded as a political statement or interpreted as a reflection of our society of excess, but she is far more interested in the design of vital, dynamic structures.

Not only did the pursuit of profit create the affluent society, it furthered lack of restraint on all levels of living conditions and in the material environment.

In the Second and Third World meeting the needs is often already a luxury in itself. While the affluent society of the First World often uses luxury products to meet needs.

In the developed countries, in affluent societies that is, many people are no longer prepared to work overtime only to be able to afford the umpteenth bit of makeup or gadget.

If a few decades earlier the society of abundance was bourgeois contempt, by 1899 Thorstein Veblen describes in The Theory of the Leisure Class the new status of the world of commodities and its social function of creating distinction.

This is documented by an extract from a specialist legal article on the subject: “In today’s affluent society, characterised by shorter product life-cycles, increasing supply, internationalisation of markets, and a constant increase in the flow of information, communication policy, as a component of the company’s marketing, takes on substantial importance...

We are of the opinion that actions and a change of thinking do have to take place in our affluent society. Only this way problems like climate change, poverty and famines can be tackled, whilst facing the world's constantly increasing population.

Not only did the pursuit of profit create the affluent society, it furthered lack of restraint on all levels of living conditions and in the material environment.

The work can also be understood as a political commentary on western consumerist society, yet Washburn is chiefly concerned with creating vital conceptual works of art out of everyday materials.

In El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico there are shelters, houses for women and for immigrants maintained by volunteers, with donations of funds and leftover food that never would be missed in this society of abundance.

While we queue, we are confronted with consumer behaviour in our affluent society.

Within the affluent democracy, the affluent discussion prevails, and within the established framework, it is tolerant to a large extent.

Nor should we, an ageing generation, forget the aspirations born in the 'golden sixties', in the 'affluent society'.

This situation is due to the progress made in the productivity of the mass manu-acture or consumer society, also known as the society of abundance.

The disease rate when brought in connection with the whole population is obviously a very rare medical event, not dependent on a ubiquitous transmittable mass-virus, but determined by life-style in a largely commercialised subculture and/or by uncritical medical intervention in Western society of super-abundance.