COP part two: map of understanding

Whilst my essay was broad in looking at happiness and consumerism it has also been suggested that I look at a smaller subsection within the essay and expand on that. 

I found when trying to make a map of understanding for "happiness and consumerism" that I was just rewriting the points from my essay. Not for lack of potential research, but rather it is really so broad that I keep getting lost in these ideas and don't know how to expand something already so expansive.

On the other hand I found taking something smaller and going deeper into that will be a far more straightforward, and perhaps more interesting, way of approaching the second part of COP. A section of my essay dealt with the idea that consumerism was and is a major factor in rioting, perhaps regardless of supposed intention.

 I'm not sure where I'm going with this yet, but have noticed recurring themes of gang culture, the unprivileged and riots and protest- which follows nicely from the Zygmunt Bauman quote featured in my essay. I've also found some information about 'Scuttlers', arguably the first youth gangs of Britain, and how they parallel with those of today.

A lot of this information on this map is to do with the protest 'aspirations' and the social problems that caused them, e.g. student fees and Thatcherism. I would like to look more into protests/ riots in general and how they function regardless of cause, otherwise this project may well just become a list of protests through the ages.