Sociologists (Seeley, Sim, and Loosley) consider suburbs to be primarily consumption-oriented. The home is “little more than a repository of an exceedingly wide range of artifacts. It contains the traditional bed, stove, table, and chairs, of course; but it also contains (among other things) freezers and furnaces, Mixmasters, medicines, bed-side lights, rugs, lamps, thermostats, letter boxes, radios, door bells, television sets, telephones, automobiles, foods of all kinds, lead pencils, address and engagement books, pots and pans, mousetraps, family treasures, pictures, contraceptives, bank books, fountain pens, and the most recent journalistic proliferations.” (Seeley et. al., Crestwood Heights. New York: 1956. Cited in Donaldson, p. 73-74).

(Donaldson, Scott. The Suburban Myth. New York: Columbia University Press, 1969. Print.)