Social science

I wasn't sure where else this would fit, but I need anons help.

 Whats the difference between a consumer society and a consumerist society? 

Apparently they are different but I can't find a good definition that explains what they are and how they differ.

The second one has that "ist" in it.

/obligatory

It's been a while since my last econ class, but I'll make an attempt to explain it to the best of my knowledge.

From what I remember and my brief attempt at googling, the difference is purely grammatical. "Consumer society" is the correct formal TERM, while "consumerist society" is an adjective PHRASE. The thing is, while the phrase "consumerist culture" is acceptable, "consumerist society" is frowned upon, though I can't recall the exact reason. Probably just to minimize confusion like yours or something.

Troll?

You wanna hear this?

Social and science as one semantic field is a contradiction.

Go away with this shit.

I would say if you live in  a society which has a comparative advantage in making durable and high-tech goods, you're most likely going to be a consumer society.

If you live in a society that has a comparative advantage in non-durables, you're going to be a producer society.

The US is a consumer society and China/Philipines is a producer society. The US is a consumerist society, because part of our social norm and culture is that we directly view an acceptable level of "household success" to be directly correlated with how much fantastically useless shit the household consumes.