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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Consumer practices"”.
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Energy consumption of refrigerators as affected by selected consumer practices
… was designed to measure the effect of selected consumer practices on energy consumption of refrigerators. Seven tests designed to simulate consumer practices were performed three times each on four refrigerators. Four tests involving variations in temperature control setting, frequency and …
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CONSUMERISM, SOCIAL PRACTICE, AND SLAVERY: CONSUMER PRACTICES AMONG ENSLAVED LABORERS AT POPLAR FOREST PLANTATION (1828-1861)
… intersections of slavery, daily practice, and consumerism of enslaved laborers at antebellum Poplar Forest plantation in Central Virginia. Key developments in the antebellum period, including expanded transportation options, industrialization, and increased slave leasing shaped the enslaved …
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Young motherhood and consumption : an exploration of the consumer practices of a group of young mothers in Bristol
This thesis explores the consumer practices of a group of young mothers in the city of Bristol. A staged and incremental research design was followed, which incorporated aspects of participant observation, activity based focus groups and a photo elicitation exercise. The study focuses on how a …
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Constructing leather: professional and consumer accounts and experiences
… ethical identities in relation to objects and consumer practices. Against this background, and drawing on social constructionist and discursive resources, I conducted an informed exploration into some of the ways in which people relate to leather and leather objects. Two Q methodological …
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Identity and consumption practices of Northamptonshire Caribbeans c.1955-1989
… of identity facilitated development of consumer materialisations and aspirations. This thesis explores how multiple forms of identity as Caribbean, Black and British people were significant in shaping local Caribbeans' consumption. The succeeding pages address and analyse how these …
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Marketing the aesthetic encounter : the role of consumption in the design of the new Museum of Modern Art
… articulating the relation between cultural and consumer practices. Assuming that contemporary societies increasingly operate within a highly consumptive culture, where people seek new experiences through travel, leisurely activities and cultural exposure, and considering that the physical …
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Living clean and shopping green: Environmental domesticity and the nineteenth-century roots of ecoconsumption
… domesticity”(a collection of ideologies and practices that treat domestic space as an environment in and of itself) as an analytical lens, this project illustrates how classist and racist theories of personal and environmental purity merged with consumer practices over the course of the …
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Peering Into The Future: Three Essays on the Nascent Phenomenon of Collaborative Consumption
… is used to explore how market institutions and consumer practices negotiate a social order that combines the social domain of peers with the economic domain of market exchange. The first essay of the dissertation approaches this objective from a macro level to examine how social order is …
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Transmedia consumption experiences: consuming and co-creating interrelated stories across media
Marketers and consumers alike are experiencing immense changes in the way entertainment is conceived, consumed, produced, distributed, and marketed as a result of intensifying socio-cultural, technologic, and economic convergence (Jenkins 2006, Dena 2004). Transmedia storytelling, aesthetic and …
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Shopping for Substance: Style and the Material Rhetoric of Conscious Consumerism
Conscious consumerism is a layered phenomenon. "Going green," "fair trade," "buy organic," "carbon footprint," and "shop local think global" are now familiar phrases in the lexicon of American shopping strategies, and conscious consumerism has a relationship with all of them. Groups defined as …
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From Homeownership to Foreclosure: Exploring the Meanings Homeowners Associate with the Lived Experience of Foreclosure
… should be prepared to either provide or refer consumers to home-buyer education and training. Social workers should also challenge exploitative consumer practices and offer empowering alternatives in their place. Lastly, this research offers strategies and practices to strengthen housing policy …
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Emilie Grigsby’s wardrobe at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London: The challenges and opportunities of personal collections of dress for a museum of art and design
… in relation to her life but also on the museum practices around collecting, archiving and exhibiting wardrobes. Highlighting the previously unexamined role of the institutions and curators that preserve wardrobes, my thesis expands the growing field of wardrobe studies and museology and …
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ON THE ROLE AND USE OF INFORMATION IN ETHICAL CONSUMERISM
… access is a trend of increased ethical consumer practices, with constant year-on-year increases of relative spending going towards ethically produced products. This thesis explores how these two phenomena could be related, where an increase in access to information leads to ever …
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A study of Albanian and UK consumers' identity creation within food shopping experiences: a consumer culture theory approach.
… the relationship that Albanian and UK consumers have with food shopping culture, and how their choice of food outlets is affected by social factors. An emic approach is used to gather 'culture-rich' data with regards to the reasons why consumers choose farmers' markets or supermarkets …