Marketing & Consumerism

To make students aware of the ways in which male violence is used and promoted in advertising.

In this lesson, students think critically about culturally inherited gender stereotypes, and explore how stereotypes about men and women are promoted and reinforced through the images and messages in alcohol ads. In the first half of the lesson, students discuss the nature of gender stereotypes, common male and female stereotypes, and where these stereotypes come from. Students also explore why adolescents are a particularly vulnerable group when it comes to stereotypes about gender and gender relationships. In the second half, students view and discuss alcohol ads that integrate gender stereotypes into messaging about drinking.

In this lesson, students explore issues surrounding the marketing of alcoholic beverages on the Internet.

In this lesson students look at less obvious methods used by advertisers to reach consumers. Students first learn about “soft sell” ads that don’t make specific claims about a product. They then consider reasons why companies choose to use them over hard sell techniques. They will then focus specifically on why various companies might choose to use soft sell techniques as subtle forms of advertising in groups.

In this lesson Buy Nothing Day is used as a jumping-off point to look at the role of consumerism in our lives and culture.

This lesson develops a beginning awareness by students of how they feel towards, and respond to, different sports, and how the media represents athletics.

In this lesson, students learn how the tobacco industry targets the needs, wishes and desires of young people in order to sell cigarettes.

In this lesson, students explore how advertising leverage can lead to censorship of information about public health issues.

In this lesson, students analyze their own body image and consider what they wish they could change.

In this lesson, students explore gender-related influences on smoking.