Ethical Consumption Practices And Identities

Author : Yana Manyukhina
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135171645X
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethical Consumption: Practices and Identities written by Yana Manyukhina and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book engages with the topic of ethical consumption and applies a critical-realist approach to explore the process of becoming and being an ethical consumer. By integrating Margaret Archer’s theory of identity formation and Christian Coff’s work on food ethics, it develops a theoretical account explicating the generative mechanism that gives rise to ethical consumer practices and identities. The second part of the book presents the findings from a qualitative study with self-perceived ethical food consumers to demonstrate the fit between the proposed theoretical mechanism and the actual experiences of ethically committed consumers. Through integrating agency-focused and socio-centric perspectives on consumer behaviour, the book develops a more comprehensive and balanced approach to conceptualising and studying consumption processes and phenomena.

Author : Alex Hiller
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000896773
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethical Consumption written by Alex Hiller and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arising from foundations in green and eco-consumerism, ethical consumption is a multidisciplinary area of research. This shortform book presents an expert view of the empirical evidence on ethical consumption, incorporating perspectives from marketing, psychology and sociology. It takes both a historical and a thematic perspective, covering definitions of ethical consumption, typologies of ethical consumer practices, successes brought about from consumer actions and the current challenges. It also focuses on the emergence of contemporary perspectives on ethical consumer behaviour from three discrete perspectives: those focusing on consumer segmentation (the profiling of ethical consumers), those which take a psychological approach (the decision- making processes which underpin ethical consumption) and those which are sociological in nature (the identities and practices which underpin ethical consumption). The book finally synthesises these perspectives in the context of the ‘problems’ that are often claimed to exist, such as the existence of the ‘attitude– behaviour gap’, and provides conclusions which make recommendations for practice and further research. It will be of interest to academics and students of marketing, consumption and related fields, as well as to practitioners and policymakers who want to understand more about the evidence pertaining to ethical consumers, what motivates them, and how to encourage and educate them to consume more ethically.

Author : Rob Harrison
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9781412903530
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ethical Consumer written by Rob Harrison and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2005-04-23 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on ethical consumers, their behavior, discourses and narratives as well as the social and political contexts in which they operate, this text provides a summary of the manner and effectiveness of their actions.

Author : James G. Carrier
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857453432
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethical Consumption written by James G. Carrier and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasingly, consumers in North America and Europe see their purchasing as a way to express to the commercial world their concerns about trade justice, the environment and similar issues. This ethical consumption has attracted growing attention in the press and among academics. Extending beyond the growing body of scholarly work on the topic in several ways, this volume focuses primarily on consumers rather than producers and commodity chains. It presents cases from a variety of European countries and is concerned with a wide range of objects and types of ethical consumption, not simply the usual tropical foodstuffs, trade justice and the system of fair trade. Contributors situate ethical consumption within different contexts, from common Western assumptions about economy and society, to the operation of ethical-consumption commerce, to the ways that people’s ethical consumption can affect and be affected by their social situation. By locating consumers and their practices in the social and economic contexts in which they exist and that their ethical consumption affects, this volume presents a compelling interrogation of the rhetoric and assumptions of ethical consumption.

Author : Margarita Komninou
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethical Consumption written by Margarita Komninou and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Deirdre Shaw
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317653939
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethics and Morality in Consumption written by Deirdre Shaw and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethical consumerism is on the rise. No longer bound to the counter-cultural fringes, ethical concerns and practices are reaching into the mainstream of society and being adopted by everyday consumers – from considering carbon miles to purchasing free-range eggs to making renewable energy choices. The wide reach and magnitude of ethical issues in society across individual and collective consumption has given rise to a series of important questions that are inspiring scholars from a range of disciplinary areas. These differing disciplinary lenses, however, tend to be contained in separate streams of research literature that are developing in parallel and in relative isolation. Ethics in Morality and Consumption takes an interdisciplinary perspective to provide multiple vantage points in creating a more holistic and integrated view of ethics in consumption. In this sense, interdisciplinary presupposes the consideration of multiple and distinct disciplines, which in this book are considered in delineated chapters. In addition, the Editors make an editorial contribution in the final chapter of the book by combining these separate disciplinary perspectives to develop a nascent interdisciplinary perspective that integrates these perspectives and presents platforms for further research.

Author : Timothy M. Devinney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052176694X
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Myth of the Ethical Consumer Hardback with DVD written by Timothy M. Devinney and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-29 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A no-holds-barred examination of 'ethical' consumerism.

Author : Marylyn Carrigan
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1802202021
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Research Handbook on Ethical Consumption written by Marylyn Carrigan and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a contemporary reflection on ethical and sustainable consumption, this insightful Research Handbook offers discussions on the challenges and complexity of living an ethical and sustainable life, and for the researchers who study them. Featuring cutting-edge, multidisciplinary research from authors with unique perspectives and expert insights, this Research Handbook takes a deeper look at the past, present, and future of ethical and sustainable consumption.

Author : Heidi Romu
Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783838396262
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethical Consumption As an Identity Project written by Heidi Romu and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aim of this study is to explore Finnish ethical consumers: Their values, preferences and habits. I will view ethical consumption as an identity project, that is to say, I will study how the consumer of the postmodern times constructs his or her identity by making ethical consumption choices. This research is qualitative in its nature. I conducted six life story interviews with Finnish young adults, who declare themselves ethical consumers. This open-ended and in-depth research method enabled me to obtain true understanding of my informants' behavior as ethical consumers.In organizing the transcribed interview data I used the methods of narrative analysis. I closely examined the interviewees' stories, and found common patterns of meaning in them. Based on these meanings, I elaborated five different themes and analyzed the data according to them.

Author : Tania Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135282390
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethical Consumption written by Tania Lewis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A not-so-quiet revolution seems to be occurring in wealthy capitalist societies - supermarkets selling ‘guilt free’ Fairtrade products; lifestyle TV gurus exhorting us to eat less, buy local and go green; neighbourhood action groups bent on ‘swopping not shopping’. And this is happening not at the margins of society but at its heart, in the shopping centres and homes of ordinary people. Today we are seeing a mainstreaming of ethical concerns around consumption that reflects an increasing anxiety with - and accompanying sense of responsibility for - the risks and excesses of contemporary lifestyles in the ‘global north’. 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. Written by leading international scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds - and drawing upon examples from across the globe - Ethical Consumption makes a major contribution to the still fledgling field of ethical consumption studies. This collection is a must-read for anyone interested in the relationship between consumer culture and contemporary social life.