Consumption in an information society

The article deals characteristic features of the population consumption in a country under transition to an information society. It considers modern definitions and various interpretations of the notions relating to both information society and consumer society. It shows that the most appropriate notions for characteristic of the present situation in our country among other post-industrial notions are the categories information society and consumer society. The notion of information society is to some extent applicable to our country, since firstly, the process of informatisation has actually gained a global scale and our society is being involved in it in this or that way, and secondly, use of information goods and services in Russia has been rapidly growing in recent years.