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Author : Robert G. Dunn
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781592138715
A challenging new theoretical approach to the study of consumption and identity.
Author : Robert G. Dunn
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781592138708
Identifying Consumption illustrates how an individual’s buying habits are shaped by the dynamics of the consumer marketplace—and thus how consumption and identity inform each other. Robert Dunn brings together the various theories of spending and develops a mode of analysis concentrating on the individual subjectivity of consumption. By doing so, he addresses how we spend and its relationship with status and lifestyle. Dunn provides a comprehensive guide to the study of modern consumer behavior before summarizing and critiquing the major theories of consumption. At this juncture, he proposes a method of analysis that focuses on the significance of status and lifestyle in social relations that can help explain how the consumer marketplace is shaped. He concludes by raising issues about different ways of consuming and the relationship between consumption and identity.
Author : Graham Pyatt,Michael Ward
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9051994516
Put the world today into context by learning about the past through this brief, best-selling Western Civilization text that has helped thousands of students succeed in the course. Jack Spielvogel's engaging style of writing weaves the political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, and military aspects of history into a gripping story that is as memorable as it is instructive. You will also be exposed to primary source documents--actual historical documents that are the foundation for the historical analysis you read in the chapter. These documents include letters, poems, and songs through history--documents that enliven the past. Throughout the book there are also helpful tools to help you digest the reading, including outlines, focus questions, chronologies, numerous maps, and boldface key terms with definitions.
Author : Klaus Rennings,Bettina Brohmann,Julia Nentwich,Joachim Schleich,Thure Traber,Rolf Wüstenhagen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783790828498
As the residential buildings sector accounts for around 30 percent of the final energy demand in Germany, this sector is increasingly becoming the focus of public attention with regard to climate change. In this book, decisions on energy consumption by private households are examined. The analyses are based on several empirical methods. The results show that the road to more sustainable energy consumption in residential buildings is not hampered by a lack of will on behalf of the consumers. However one should be realistic that there are many instances where improving thermal institution involves additional economic costs for individual households.
Author : Morris B. Holbrook,Elizabeth C. Hirschman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110854732
The Semiotics of Consumption: Interpreting Symbolic Consumer Behavior in Popular Culture and Works of Art (Approaches to Semiotics).
Author : Oksana Mont
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-23
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781788117814
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Arial} Evaluating achievements, challenges and future avenues for research, this book explores how new dimensions of knowledge and practice contest, reshape and advance traditional understandings of sustainable consumption governance.
Author : Gad Saad
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780805851502
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Author : Raye Z. Litten,John P. Allen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461203575
The Importance of Measuring Alcohol Consumption To date, alcohol studies have attended far more to issues of alco hol dependence and the harmful consequences of drinking than to the level of alcohol consumption itself. This is, perhaps, not surprising since dependence on alcohol is believed to constitute a meaningful and distinct medical syndrome, regardless of the level of alcohol consumption associated with it (Edwards and Gross, 1976). Also, of society is generally more concerned with the adverse consequences drinking (e. g. , traffic fatalities, homelessness, health care and legal expenses, and academiclbehavioral problems in young drinkers), than with the quantity of alcohol actually consumed. Nevertheless, accurate assessment of alcohol usage is important in its own right in at least four contexts: 1. Evaluating the effectiveness of alcoholism and alcohol abuse treatment and prevention efforts. Such efforts include both applied evaluations of existing programs and formal, well-controlled efficacy studies on experimental interventions. These investigations require rigorous methodologies to assess outcomes precisely and contrast what may be quite subtle differences between programs and between pre treatment and posttreatment outcomes. Although these studies are usually characterized by the employment of multiple measures of success-including general improvements in social and physical functioning, reduction in degree of dependence, and resolution of problems directly resultant from drinking-it is by their assessment of changes in drinking behavior that they are potentially able to achieve the highest level of objectivity and exactitude.
Author : Tania Lewis,Emily Potter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415558242
This collection of essays provides a range of critical tools for understanding the turn towards responsible or conscience consumption and, in the process, interrogates the notion that we can shop our way to a more ethical, sustainable future. Aust authors: Tania Lewis, La Trobe University, & Emily Potter, Deakin University, Melbourne.
Author : Søren Askegaard,Benoît Heilbrunn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317233961
Canonical Authors in Consumption Theory is the first work to compile the contributions of the greatest social thinkers in the global conversation about consumption and consumer culture. A prestigious reference work, it offers original chapters by the world's most prominent thought leaders and surveys how the work of historical theorists has influenced and shaped consumption theory, both through history and at the cutting edge of research. Consumption is at the core of contemporary lifestyles, of political successes and failures and of discussions around sustainability and environmental change. Contemporary consumer culture shapes modern identities, and is the engine of the globalizing capitalist economy. Still, most social theorizations over the last century and a half have addressed production processes rather than consumption processes. This is about to change. Studies of consumption play an increasing role as a topic and a domain of study in marketing, anthropology, sociology and cultural studies. Currently, there is no single compilation that systematically links scholarly work published by the greatest social thinkers of the last 150 years to the understanding of contemporary consumer society. This book provides a solid framework for understanding the relevance of these canonical authors in social theory to facilitate analysis of consumer culture, and to act as a comprehensive reference point for consumer researchers, doctoral students and practitioners.
Author : Yvette Taylor,Emma Casey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137429087
This collection explores the relationships between the emotional and material, engaging with and developing the debates surrounding the emotional and material labour involved in producing and reproducing domestic and intimate spaces. The contributions examine the geographies and spaces of consumption in international and local-global spheres.
Author : Ben Fine,Michael Heasman,Judith Wright
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002-03-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134779062
With growing affluence in the developed world, food has become an increasing focus for attention. Here, the authors argue that in order to understand the extensive and dramatic developments in the world of food, a new interdisciplinary approach is necessary. The Age of Affluence successfully addresses food consumption in this way. The volume: * argues the importance of socioeconomic and cultural factors over diet, in influencing the production, marketing and consumption of different groups of foods; * places food systems theory on sound analytical foundations; * draws critically upon food systems literature; * includes case studies from the sugar, dairy and meat systems; * employs novel statistical techniques to identify and explain distinct patterns of food consumption; The book will help to revitalize the discipline of food studies and points the way forward for the continuing study of food consumption. As such, it will be invaluable to students, researchers and policymakers engaged in the world of food.
Author : Ozgen, Ozlen
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781522584926
The mass production and diversification of media have accelerated the development of popular culture. This has started a new trend in consumerism of desiring new consumption objects and devaluing those consumption objects once acquired, thus creating a constant demand for new items. Pop culture now canalizes consumerism both with advertising and the marketing of consumerist lifestyles, which are disseminated in the mass media. The Handbook of Research on Consumption, Media, and Popular Culture in the Global Age discusses interdisciplinary perspectives on media influence and consumer impacts in a globalizing world due to modern communication technology. Featuring research on topics such as consumer culture, communication ethics, and social media, this book is ideally designed for managers, marketers, researchers, academicians, and students.
Author : Robert C. Gabler,William D. Riley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Cobalt
ISBN : UOM:39015078458448
Author : Jesús Medina,Manuel Ojeda-Aciego,José Luis Verdegay,David A. Pelta,Inma P. Cabrera,Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier,Ronald R. Yager
Publisher : Springer
Page : 835 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319914732
This three volume set (CCIS 853-855) constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems, IPMU 2017, held in Cádiz, Spain, in June 2018. The 193 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 383 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on advances on explainable artificial intelligence; aggregation operators, fuzzy metrics and applications; belief function theory and its applications; current techniques to model, process and describe time series; discrete models and computational intelligence; formal concept analysis and uncertainty; fuzzy implication functions; fuzzy logic and artificial intelligence problems; fuzzy mathematical analysis and applications; fuzzy methods in data mining and knowledge discovery; fuzzy transforms: theory and applications to data analysis and image processing; imprecise probabilities: foundations and applications; mathematical fuzzy logic, mathematical morphology; measures of comparison and entropies for fuzzy sets and their extensions; new trends in data aggregation; pre-aggregation functions and generalized forms of monotonicity; rough and fuzzy similarity modelling tools; soft computing for decision making in uncertainty; soft computing in information retrieval and sentiment analysis; tri-partitions and uncertainty; decision making modeling and applications; logical methods in mining knowledge from big data; metaheuristics and machine learning; optimization models for modern analytics; uncertainty in medicine; uncertainty in Video/Image Processing (UVIP).