Consumption in the economy

Abstract

This article aims to analyze and understand the aspects of consumption of a society, in economics and sociology, which indicate which direction it is heading in quality, but obeys instinct in its animality. The methodology used was readings of books, articles and other forms of knowledge about individual and family consumption. Hence, the summaries were analyzed in soliloquy, confronting with reality, put forward to understand the consumer's daily life. Some objectives are important in the consumption function, such as: the concept, the historical issue, time and the internet in inducing it to implement it. Thus, it is expected an aggregation of discussions in Universities, to understand how social consumption is conducted, which pleases at first glance and enters into line of use.