Consequences Of Planned Obsolescence For Consumer Culture And The Promotional Self

Author : Christoph Behrends
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638904679
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Consequences of Planned Obsolescence for Consumer Culture and the Promotional Self written by Christoph Behrends and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2004 in the subject Sociology - Communication, grade: 1,7, University of Leicester (Centre for Mass Communication Research), course: Avertising, Culture and Communication, 5 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: During the 20th century, the industrialised countries have developed an extensive amount of obsolescence. It has become clear that nations in the developed world over-consume, while the poor in the developing world pay the price of our increased consumption with their lowered standards of living and increasing environmental damage . When did obsolescence emerge, in how far is it planned, and which consequences does it have for consumer culture and the promotional self on a broader scale? By drawing on numerous examples, this essay explains how advertisements are constructed semiotically and the ideologies they derive from.

Author : Alberto do Amaral Junior
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030169855
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Consumption written by Alberto do Amaral Junior and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a broad understanding of whether law plays a role in influencing patterns of sustainable consumption and, if so, how. Bringing together legal scholars from the Global South and the Global North, it examines these questions in the context of national, transnational and international law, within single and plural legal systems, and across a range of sector-specific issue areas. The chapters identify how traditional legal disciplines (e.g. constitutional law, consumer law, public procurement, international public law), sector-related regulation (e.g. energy, water, waste), and legal rules in specific areas (e.g. eco-labelling and packing) engage with the concept of sustainable consumption. A number of the contributions describe this relationship by isolating a national legal system, while others approach it from the vantage point of legal pluralism, exploring the conflicts and convergences of rules between multiple international treaties (or guidelines) and those between the rules of international and transnational law (or both) vis-à-vis national legal systems. While sustainable consumption is recognised as an important field of interdisciplinary research linking virtually all social science disciplines, legal scholarship, in contrast, has neglected the importance of the field of sustainable consumption to the law. This book fills the gap.

Author : Burns, David J.
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1522561218
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Multifaceted Explorations of Consumer Culture and Its Impact on Individuals and Society written by Burns, David J. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2018-10-12 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consumer culture influences virtually all activities within modern societies and has become an important area of study for businesses. Logical analysis of consumer behavior is difficult as humans have different reasons for repeatedly buying products they need or want, and it is challenging to follow why they buy unneeded or unwanted products regularly. Without a comprehensive understanding of consumer culture as the basis, market discussions become empty and produce little insight into the power consumers hold in affecting other individuals and society. Multifaceted Explorations of Consumer Culture and Its Impact on Individuals and Society provides emerging research from different perspectives on the basis and ramifications of consumer culture, as well as how it affects all aspects of the lives of individuals. While providing a platform for exploring interpersonal interactions and issues related to ethics in marketing, readers will gain valuable insight into areas such as consumer vs. producer mentality, the effects of consumerism on developing countries, and the consequences of consumerism. This book is an important resource for marketing professionals, business managers, sociologists, students, academicians, researchers, and consumer professionals.

Author : Kamila Pope
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0749478063
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Planned Obsolescence written by Kamila Pope and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planned obsolescence is a strategy used to make products obsolete, leading to their premature replacement. The result is the over-exploitation of natural resources, increased waste and detrimental social impacts. It is a known practice in consumer electronics and affects other industries as they put profit before consequence. A ground-breaking new book, Understanding Planned Obsolescence looks at the causes, cost and impact of planned obsolescence. It considers the legal and economic frameworks to overcome the practice and how to mitigate its effects. It also unearths new patterns of production and consumption highlighting more sustainable development models. Including a wide range of case studies from Europe, USA and South America, Understanding Planned Obsolescence is a vital step forward for the future of business and academia alike. Online resources now available include chapter-by-chapter lecturer slides.

Author : Giles Slade
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674043758
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Made to Break written by Giles Slade and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Made to Break is a history of twentieth-century technology as seen through the prism of obsolescence. Giles Slade explains how disposability was a necessary condition for America's rejection of tradition and our acceptance of change and impermanence. This book gives us a detailed and harrowing picture of how, by choosing to support ever-shorter product lives, we may well be shortening the future of our way of life as well.

Author : Hélène Cherrier
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100064832X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anti-Consumption written by Hélène Cherrier and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this edited volume, the leading scholars in the field engage with consumers, marketers, corporations and policymakers as well as space dynamics and network formation to provide an in-depth examination of anti-consumption: a voluntary behavioural inclination to minimise rather than grow, to decelerate and simplify and to reduce the unnecessary exploitation of resources fuelled by consumer culture. This book does not place anti-consumption on the high moral ground but rather demonstrates its complexity to spur innovative and critical thinking on how people, organisations, businesses and governments can treat consumption more as a necessity for survival than as a tool for self-expression, pleasure and economic growth. The first part of this book looks at anti-consumption from a diversity of perspectives. It analyses voluntary simplicity, a self-motivated engagement in consumption reduction, and boycotting, a politically-motivated reaction against unacceptable corporate practices, as distinct manifestations of anti-consumption that nonetheless remain rooted in the logic of the market. Paving the way to critical perspectives on the interface between anti-consumption, people and the environment, the second part of the book projects anti-consumption to issues of waste production and provides possible answers to global challenges of resources depletion, social inequalities and global warming. In this section, anti-consumption is critically assessed as an actor of change, both in terms of social change and paradigm change. To move the field forward, the third part of this book presents several theoretical frameworks that help set a roadmap for future research. Anti-Consumption will be of direct interest to scholars and researchers within the fields of marketing, consumer research, business studies, environmental studies and sustainability. It will also be of value to those researching the economics and/or sociology of markets.

Author : Laura Lake
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470449837
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Consumer Behavior For Dummies written by Laura Lake and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-05-11 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consumer behaviour.

Author : John F. Sherry
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317190521
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Consumer Culture Theory written by John F. Sherry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Consumer Culture Theory contains original research essays written by the premier thought leaders of the discipline from around the world that reflect the maturation of the field Customer Culture Theory over the last decade. The volume seeks to help break down the silos that have arisen in disciplines seeking to understand consumer culture, and speed both the diffusion of ideas and possibility of collaboration across frontiers. Contemporary Consumer Culture Theory begins with a re-evaluation of some of the fundamental notions of consumer behaviour, such as self and other, branding and pricing, and individual vs. communal agency then continuing with a reconsideration of role configurations as they affect consumption, examining in particular the ramifications of familial, gender, ethnic and national aspects of consumers’ lived experiences. The book move on to a reappraisal of the state of the field, examining the rhetoric of inquiry, the reflexive history and critique of the discipline, the prospect of redirecting the effort of inquiry to practical and humanitarian ends, the neglected wellsprings of our intellectual heritage, and the ideological underpinnings of the evolving construction of the concept of the brand. Contemporary Consumer Culture Theory is a reflective assessment, in theoretical, empirical and evocative keys, of the state of the field of consumer culture theory and an indication of the scholarly directions in which the discipline is evolving providing reflection upon a rapidly expanding discipline and altered consumption-scapes by some of its prime movers.

Author : City of London College of Economics
Publisher : City of London College of Economics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 3570 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book MBA in Marketing - City of London College of Economics - 10 months - 100% online / self-paced written by City of London College of Economics and published by City of London College of Economics. This book was released on with total page 3570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overview An MBA in Marketing (or Master of Business Administration) is a degree that will prepare you for leading positions in marketing such as Chief Marketing Officer. Content - What is Marketing? - Marketing Management - Marketing Management Philosophies - Marketing Challenges into the Next Century - Marketing and Society: Social Responsibility and Marketing Ethics - Social Criticisms of Marketing - Citizen and Public Actions to Regulate - Business Actions Towards Socially Responsible - Principles for Public Policy Towards Marketing - Strategic Marketing Planning - The Global Market Place - Business Markets and Business Buyer Behaviour - Market Information and Marketing Research - Core Strategy - Digital Marketing Strategy - Customer Relationship Management - E-Commerce - Fundamentals of Management - And many more Duration 10 months Assessment The assessment will take place on the basis of one assignment at the end of the course. Tell us when you feel ready to take the exam and we’ll send you the assignment questions. Study material The study material will be provided in separate files by email / download link.

Author : City of London College of Economics
Publisher : City of London College of Economics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1104 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diploma in Marketing - City of London College of Economics - 6 months - 100% online / self-paced written by City of London College of Economics and published by City of London College of Economics. This book was released on with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overview The ultimate course in marketing. Nothing will be uncovered. Content - What is Marketing? - Marketing Management - Marketing Management Philosophies - Marketing Challenges into the Next Century - Marketing and Society: Social Responsibility and Marketing Ethics - Social Criticisms of Marketing - Citizen and Public Actions to Regulate - Business Actions Towards Socially Responsible - Principles for Public Policy Towards Marketing - Strategic Marketing Planning - The Global Market Place - Business Markets and Business Buyer Behaviour - Market Information and Marketing Research - Core Strategy - And many more Duration 6 months Assessment The assessment will take place on the basis of one assignment at the end of the course. Tell us when you feel ready to take the exam and we’ll send you the assignment questions. Study material The study material will be provided in separate files by email / download link.