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Author : Andreas Reinstaller
Publisher :
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 39,76 MB
Release : 2003
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Author : Mehita Iqani
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 39,16 MB
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137390131
What does consumption in the global south signify, and how are its complexities communicated in media discourses? This book looks at the media representation of consumer culture in Africa, China, Brazil and India through case studies ranging from celebrity selfies, to travel websites, news reports and documentary film.
Author : Maurie J Cohen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 35,22 MB
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317246217
Consumer society is an unquestionably complex social construct. However, after decades of unremitting dominance there are signs emerging that it is starting to falter, both as a coherent and durable system of social organization and as a strategy for societal advancement. Debates concerning how we can transition beyond present energy- and materials-intensive consumer society are beginning to gain greater salience. Social Change and the Coming of Post-Consumer Society aims to develop more complete appreciation of the relevant processes of social change and to identify effective interventions that could enable a transition to supersede consumer society. Bringing together leading interdisciplinary experts on social change, the book identifies and analyzes several ongoing small- and modest-scale social experiments. Possibilities for macro-scale change from the interlinked perspectives of culture, economics, finance, and governance are then explored. These contributions expose the systemic problems that are emblematic of the current condition of consumer society, specifically the unsustainability of prevailing consumption practices and lifestyles and the persistence of inequalities. These observations are summarized and extended in the final chapter of the book. This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of sustainable consumption, sustainability transitions, environmental sociology, and sustainable development.
Author : Open University T307/Block 4
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 36,5 MB
Release : 2010-02-06
Category : Consumer behaviour
ISBN : 9781848730540
This block follows on from Products: new product development and sustainable design, by looking at how products fare in the marketplace, how they diffuse into use, how consumers respond to them, and at the extent to which changing consumer preferences and concerns are influencing future technologies. It looks at examples where consumer concern for environmental protection has led to the development of specific new'green' products and technologies and examines the role of governments in steering the direction of technological and product development to meet environmental objectives.Due to copyright restrictions the DVD material refered to within this book is not available.
Author : Geraldine Rosa Henderson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 10,80 MB
Release : 2016-09-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 144083377X
This book provides a vivid examination of the issue of consumer inequality in America—one of society's most under-discussed and critical issues—through the evaluation of real-life cases, the trend of consumers suing companies for discrimination, and the application of novel frameworks to establish legitimate consumer equality. Everyone—regardless of race, gender, or other appearance-based factors—should receive equal access and equal treatment in businesses open to the public. Unfortunately, consumer equality has yet to be achieved. In fact, marketplace discrimination remains a pervasive problem in the United States, in spite of racial inroads on other fronts—employment and housing, for example. Consumer Equality: Race and the American Marketplace is the first book to elucidate how consumer discrimination remains an unresolved, pressing, and complex issue. Written by three well-established experts on consumer discrimination and business law who have presented their research and opinions to national and local media and as expert witnesses in court cases, this book examines the multilayered problem that results in citizens being suspected of committing a crime or detained by police or security personnel because of their ethno-racial background. This book could be considered required reading for representatives of large corporations, small businesses, and any organization interested in avoiding charges of marketplace discrimination as well as civil rights groups, community organizations, and organizations concerned about social justice.
Author : Martin Daunton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 23,3 MB
Release : 2001-06-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1847881106
Objects and commodities have frequently been studied to assess their position within consumer - or material - culture, but all too rarely have scholars examined the politics that lie behind that culture. This book fills the gap and explores the political and state structures that have shaped the consumer and the nature of his or her consumption. From medieval sumptuary laws to recent debates in governments about consumer protection, consumption has always been seen as a highly political act that must be regulated, directed or organized according to the political agendas of various groups. An internationally renowned group of experts looks at the emergence of the rational consuming individual in modern economic thought, the moral and ideological values consumers have attached to their relationships with commodities, and how the practices and theories of consumer citizenship have developed alongside and within the expanding state. How does consumer identity become available to people and how do they use it? How is consumption negotiated in a dictatorship? Are material politics about state politics, consumer politics, or the relationship between these and consumer practices?From the specifics of the politics of consumption in the French Revolution - what was the status of rum? How complicated did a vinegar recipe have to be before the resultant product qualified as 'luxury'? - to the highly contentious twentieth-century debates over American political economy, this original book traces the relationships among political cultures, consumers and citizenship from the eighteenth century to the present.
Author : L. Pellandini-Simánya
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,18 MB
Release : 2014-03-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137022493
How much is acceptable to consume? What is appropriate to consume and which goods fall into the disapproved category? Answers to these questions vary widely across time and space. This book examines the sources of this variation by providing an account of how everyday consumption norms develop, why they differ and why they change.
Author : Kulwinder Kaur (Assistant professor of sociology)
Publisher :
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 44,97 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Consumer behavior
ISBN : 9789350981306
Author : Pekka Sulkunen
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,43 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780312159443
Individual desire and collective rituals of consuming together seem now to contradict ideals of achievement in the future. This calls for new ways of thinking about morality, the body, citizenship and equality - indeed about the social bond. The essays discuss theoretical implications of this new vision and give examples of new codes of happiness in consuming products, both material and cultural. The authors provide a rich appreciation of the passion of consumption in advertising, in nutrition and alcohol, in city cultures, in entertainment and the media. They also address the other side of the coin, facing issues of environmental risk and public health, and discuss the continued need and possibility of a rational regulation of needs and pleasures by consumer policy.
Author : Roger Burrows
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 30,28 MB
Release : 1991-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780333565360
An edited collection exploring divisions and changes within and between the spheres of consumption and production. Topics include: the relationship between consumption and production; the social construction of consumers; housing and social class mobility; health provision; the role of the 'service class'; and access to higher education. Peter Saunders' work provides the initial stimulus for many of the papers, but all go beyond his narrow conception of a sociology of consumption and his liberal analysis of patterns of social inequality.