New Socialization Spaces: Shopping Centers

The process of globalization has led to some changes in the social and cultural characteristics of societies. Consumer goods, brandsor “American-style living” habits that spreadrapidly throughout the world have affected people. This has led to the emergence of the concept of consumer culture and acceptance in society. Torelate the concept of consumption to the economy is not enough to explain the concept. Today, everything is consumed by people. The mostimportant element consumed is thevalues in thesociety. The depletion of values is about cultural elements that bring people to get herandunite. In this sense, the concept of socialization has been distanced from it stradition almeaning and new socializationor time together spaces have been created. Today, although shopping centers bring to mind the commercial activities and consumption, perhaps the most important point that weignore is that the yappear as centers where values areconsumed.