CONSUMPTION EXPENSES, THE CONSUMER AND THE CONSUMPTION DURING THE POST-MODERNIST PERIOD: THEORETICAL ELEMENTS AND METHODOLOGICAL SPECIFICATIONS.

Between the modern society and the traditional one there are sensitive differences. If the traditional society is restrictive and limited from the cultural point of view, the modern society is expansive, capable to solve a large range of problems and to control more and more extended scientific areas. The more structural the specialization, the higher the modernization index; the further away from the traditional society, the more capable of reabsorbing transforming elements and of developing rationalism, efficiency and tendency towards freedom, which are the essential characteristics of the modernity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]