This paper centres on the notions of consumption, consumption society and consumption culture. It seeks to present a comparative analysis by addressing the ways these notions have been defined in the literature. The paper moreover focuses on the contemporary meanings of these notions, with a prior focus on the consumption phenomenon. In this context, the manipulation of needs thesis, the society of spectacle theory, the claim that advertisement is a means to boost consumption and the notion that consumption is not related to the amount of purchased goods are tackled in this work. Based upon a comparative analysis, which addresses the social, cultural and economic dimensions of the consumption phenomenon, it touches upon the notion that the mere purchase of goods and their mere consumption in proportion to a person’s needs does not automatically qualify people as consumers. It focuses on the point that in consumption society consumption does not accrue out of a need anymore; instead consumption itself becomes the need in consumption society. Consequently, people realize themselves not anymore by producing culture, but by being merely added to the very objects of “consumption culture”. As such, this paper argues that our age largely corresponds to an age dominated by consumption culture. Through consumption, the individual ceases to produce expressions relating to its culture. On the contrary, the commodity of consumption itself becomes the image and communication vehicle of the individual. The study thereby seeks to demonstrate the extent to which consumption culture has spread its very own culture into all areas of life.