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Showing 1 to 20 of 237 for “"Consumerism"”.
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Ethical Consumerism and Fashion: An Introspective Study
… 2017, UNEP, 2020). <br/><br/>‘Ethical Consumerism’ (EC) emerged as an area of academic and popular discourse in the 1990s, although its origins can be traced back to earlier research into social and environmental aspects of consumption (Harrison et al., 2005). Economic and market …
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UTILIZING THE THEORY OF PLANNED BEHAVIOR TO UNDERSTAND CONSUMERISM: THE USE OF TWITTER FOR CONSUMERISM BETWEEN SAUDI AND AMERICAN CONSUMERS
The history of consumerism shows that consumer movements in developed countries with capitalist economies in general, and in the United States in particular, have had great success in helping customers get safer products (car seat belts), more information (product labels), and better market …
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Branding faith: object and consumerism in religious identity construction
In this thesis I theorize about the potentially negative affects of competition among Evangelical groups in their attempts to attain members on a college campus. I hypothesize that in order to draw the attention of potential members, religious groups will offer "quick-fix" solutions to problems of …
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Consumerism: management challenge of consumer protection in national enterprises
Until recently, consumer policy researchers have concentrated almost exclusively on the competitive market, with little attention to the market failure scenario. This study investigates consumer protection behaviour of national enterprises. It does this by exploring the factors which determine or …
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Health cooperatives: a model for consumerism in medical care.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. Thesis. 1974. B.S.
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ON THE ROLE AND USE OF INFORMATION IN ETHICAL CONSUMERISM
… of information: a working definition of ethical consumerism based on lived experience, the personal factors that make a person more likely to engage in ethical consumption, the situational factors that act as the final nudge towards their new behaviour, and the transitional factors that take …
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The Effects of Delay and Probabilistic Discounting on Green Consumerism
<p>People have a tendency to discount outcomes that are delayed or probabilistic. In other words, people will sacrifice larger benefits for smaller benefits that are immediate or certain. For many environmentally-friendly (“green”) products, the financial benefits are both delayed 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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The Belfast Boycott: Consumerism, Gender, and the Irish Border, 1920-1922
… of Irish identity, the intersection between consumerism and patriotism, and the role that women played as both political and economic actors throughout the Irish revolutionary period.</p>
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Capitalism, Consumerism, and Individualism: Investigating the Rhetoric of <em>The Secret</em>
… I will look at how this movement positions consumerism and consumption as a means of self-actualization and spiritual salvation and analyze how the theory lends itself to the ideals of capitalism. Finally, I will emphasize how the Law of Attraction disregards women and marginalized groups by …
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"To keep Christmas well": gender and consumerism in the Age of Industrialization
… that included children, he encouraged widespread consumerism, propelled further by the Industrial Revolution. This dissertation examines how industrialization altered Christmas and guided women’s participation in the holiday in select urban centers of England between 1840, the year Queen Victoria …
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Exploring the nature of student consumerism at postsecondary institutions in British Columbia, Canada
… context within which the phenomenon of student consumerism has arisen, and focused specifically on exploring that phenomenon within postsecondary institutions in British Columbia (BC), Canada. The thesis reports on a qualitative investigation into the nature of student consumerism among students …
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The politics of consumerism : understanding the role of consumption in the political economy
Were the social activity that most defines late capitalism to be named consumption would be nominated as the predominant leisure pastime of the current period. Since the well-being of a society is measured along material co-ordinates, high rates of consumption are taken as signs of an overall …
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The Customer is Always Right: the Insidious Impact of Academic Consumerism on Nursing Faculty
… to investigate the influence of academic consumerism on nurse educators. It aimed to gain insights into the effects of academic consumerism on teaching methodologies, classroom, and clinical management, as well as its impact on faculty satisfaction and their intention to persist in the …
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"""Addicted to Pleasures"": Representing Commodities of Empire and Consumerism in Eighteenth -Century English Culture"
This dissertation examines how the introduction of the soft drugs caffeine and nicotine into eighteenth-century English culture deeply impacted not just British society but, in addition, the content and style of writing in the period---fiction, poetry and drama---as filtered through literary …
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Sustainability, Fashion Design, and Consumerism: Undergraduate Entry Level Fashion Students' Knowledge, Attitudes, and Habits
… students' attitudes, habits, and knowledge of consumerism, fashion design, and sustainability. The postmodern study employed crystallization as its methodological framework to gain insight into how participants' knowledge is manifested in their daily habits, and used 4 methods of data …
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Flawed consumers: understanding the impact of intersectional political consumerism during the Chicago Welfare Rights Era
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The Politics of Purchasing: Ethical Consumerism, Civic Engagement, and Political Participation in the United States
… Participation in both political and ethical consumerism is measured through buycotting (intentionally purchasing) or boycotting (intentionally abstaining from purchasing) of particular products or companies. Based on data from the 2002 National Civic Engagement Survey II, this study finds …
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