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Tujuan dilakukannya penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui pengaruh celebrity worship terhadap perilaku konsumtif di kalangan penggemar boy group EXO di Karawang. Populasi dalam penelitian ini merupakan penggemar boy group EXO yang berdomisili di Karawang dengan jumlah 161 partisipan. Penelitian menggunakan metode penelitian kuantitatif dengan desain asosiatif kausal. Alat ukur yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini untuk mengukur celebrity worship menggunakan Celebrity Attitude Scale (CAS) yang diadaptasi dari Maltby dkk. (2004) dan untuk mengukur perilaku konsumtif menggunakan konstruksi tes yang dikonstruksi sendiri oleh peneliti menggunakan teori Lina dan Rosyid (dalam Lestarina dkk., 2017). Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan uji regresi linear sederhana dengan hasil signifikansi 0,000 0,05 yang mana hipotesis alternatif penelitian ini diterima. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan adanya pengaruh positif celebrity worship terhadap perilaku konsumtif, yang berarti semakin tinggi tingkat celebrity worship, semakin tinggi juga perilaku konsumtif yang dialami pada penggemar boy group EXO di Karawang. Pada penelitian ini mendapatkan hasil koefisien determinasi yang disumbangkan oleh variabel celebrity worship terhadap perilaku konsumtif memiliki besar pengaruh 50,1%, dan sisanya dipengaruhi oleh variabel atau faktor-faktor lain yang tidak menjadi fokus dalam penelitian ini.

Sociology studies society and the patterns of its development, social processes, institutions, relations, structures, communities and certain cultural values which determine its development. Sociology also studies human behavior - how it affects society, and how people behave in social groups. There are many understandings of sovereignty in academic circles but mainly as absolute and hierarchical. As time passes, the concept of sovereignty, which prioritizes territory, has begun to lose relevance due to massive technological developments. In the context of technology and national security, territorial rules are irrelevant for three reasons: technology makes consistent and predictable territorial definitions difficult, data often moves in ways unrelated to the interests of users and legislators, and technology makes it easier for public and private actors to circumvent territorial rules, often without detection [12]. Another consequence of technological development is new actors with strong international influence due to globalization, free markets, and technological developments. Of all these actors, the most interesting are multinational companies. They do not operate on a territorial basis, which creates problems of jurisdictional asymmetry, overlap and control rather than of sovereignty in its formal sense [40]. Is sovereignty still relevant for the state? Since the advent of the Internet, the relevance of the nation-state concept has been questioned, and state actors have gradually lost their dominance. The Internet supports many international actors, and technology companies are the most significant. Their domination creates economic, legal, political, and social challenges; thereby, the state tries to regulate technology companies. The authors argue that the state sovereignty is still relevant despite many arguments saying otherwise. The paper explains the relevancy of the state sovereignty by presenting two cases: the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the New Media Bargaining Code (NMBC). The nation-state demonstrates its sovereignty by the law affecting national companies; thus, showing that the state can restrain the power of technology companies, i.e., state sovereignty is still relevant in the contemporary era.

This article examines whether Pancasila as the sole principle and ideology and state philosophy is reflected in the Indonesian society. Understanding and appreciation of the values of Pancasila ideology are often considered only as a jargon, i.e., in the verbal perspective. Its implementation is neglected due to lack of insight and knowledge about Pancasila and not knowing its basic principles. Pancasila, which consists of five precepts, includes a series of attitudes and knowledge as well as hopes from the struggle of the Indonesian people to gain independence, and is regulated in the Pancasila state. The first precept is about God the Almighty ( Ketuhanan yang Maha Esa ); the second precept is about just and civilized humanity ( Kemanusiaan yang adil dan beradab ); the third precept claims the ‘unity of Indonesia’ ( Persatuan Indonesia ); the fourth precept claims democracy led by wisdom in the representative deliberation; the fifth precept claims social justice for all Indonesian people ( Keadilan sosial bagi seluruh rakyat Indonesia ). Pancasila is the source of all laws in the Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia, which constitutes it as a sovereign and prosperous country supporting the wealth of its people, the divinity in the One and Only, freedom of religion, respect for diversity and pluralism, and building a democratic state. Social problems that often occur in every society usually start from breaking the law, dangers of the extremism doctrine, and criminal acts of corruption that can damage the grassroots of Pancasila. Therefore, to defend the country and strengthen the basic precepts of Pancasila, it is necessary to understand and deepen the practice of Pancasila in the ideology of nationalism and democracy.