Credit card attitudes and behaviors of college students by authors So-Hyun Joo, John E. Grable & Dorothy C. Bagwell presents a scenario of the credit card use and its effects on college students. It looks into the parameters of the rise of credit card usage and notes that this inclination towards credit cards and use of multiple credit cards by each student renders negative effects on the student. The writers note that the credit card companies are targeting the students and reaping the consumerist interests prevailing in the society today.
This article directly relates to the basic culture of the modern society that is predominantly formulated by market-induced economy at a greater scale. The authors explore the consumerist attitude and voluntary shopping syndrome that is prevailing in the current culture directly. The authors juxtaposed the cultural perimeters with financial sector in order to expose the cultural imbalance of today.
The sociological concept on culture, which is directly related to the article, is the sociological theory of Deviance. The concept explores social disapproval in elicit from and though credit cards are not illegal it is certain that over use and abuse of credit cards are surely breach of social and cultural norms as they violate the fundamental stability of the society itself.
The most important aspect of the article is the cultural economization that the society is going through today. It is important to check this tendency or else there would be serious consequences in the near future.
Works Cited
Joo, So-Hyun, Grable, John E. Bagwell, Dorothy C, Credit card attitudes and behaviors of college students, College Student Journal: Find Articles, 2003, Web.