Dissertations / Theses: 'Consumerism'

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Wight, Philip A. "From Citizens to Consumers: The Countercultural Roots of Green Consumerism." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1368030088.

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Althawadi, Othman M. "UTILIZING THE THEORY OF PLANNED BEHAVIOR TO UNDERSTAND CONSUMERISM: THE USE OF TWITTER FOR CONSUMERISM BETWEEN SAUDI AND AMERICAN CONSUMERS." OpenSIUC, 2014. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/793.

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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 regulation (the Consumer Product Safety Act). Consumer interests in developed countries are represented by several sets of organizations with different concerns. These consumer interests are fragmented but well articulated, whereas in developing countries, consumer interests are homogeneous and unarticulated. Moreover, compared with the hyper-connected world we live in today, in the past greater efforts were required to mobilize consumers for consumerism actions such as protests, boycotts, calls for policy change, and demands for more government regulations. The purpose of this study is to develop a testable model of consumerism, with a focus on market settings within a developed country, the United States, and a developing country, Saudi Arabia. The goals are to (a) understand why some consumers go beyond the norm to engage in consumerism behaviors, and (b) whether their level of consumerism differs between that of a developed and a developing country, and if so, why. To this end, a consumerism model based on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) was developed. The research provides the first set of data and the first quantitative analysis regarding consumerism behaviors in conjunction with the use of an online platform (Twitter) among Saudi Arabian and American consumers. The developed model explained consumerism behaviors. Furthermore, this study demonstrates that the Saudi sample had a higher level of intent to engage in consumerism behaviors than did the American sample. Also, this study shows that the Saudi sample had a negative perception of government regulatory practices and a higher level of intent to engage in consumerism behaviors on Twitter than the American sample. Thus, in Saudi Arabia, a country with a restricted civil society and only one semi-independent consumer protection organization, more consumers use Twitter as a consumerism platform than in the US, a country with an unrestricted civil society and numerous independent consumer organizations.

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Laird, K. "Consumerism and its discontents : a psycho-social analytic of consumerism and unsicherheit." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.403165.

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Sinclair, Martin. "Political Consumerism : Money Talks." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Political Science, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-1229.

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The political development in the Western world is transforming. Political party participation decreases as well as other non-profit associations. This individualistic development is described as a threat to democracy. Nevertheless, some scholars argue that the political participation is a transformation into a new type of participation that instead could strengthen the democracy.

The political parties are the foundation of the democratic system and they receive their power by representing the citizens in the decision making process. Yet, the parties transform from organisations with a close linkage to their core groups, to catch-all organisations that aim to maximise votes. Since the goal for parties is to attain as much power as possible, new parties and other political actors have effectively been kept out of political system.

The individualistic development is observed through the political consumerism in this thesis. The political consumption is described as a political activity where consuming is used as the mean to impact. To actively select products that represent certain values influence companies to work for those values. It is a free individualistic movement without rules. If asked to describe the typical political consumer it would be a young female with a higher education and thus, an income above average. The political consumer prefers to be involved in issues of personal interest rather than broad party politics. Companies are believed to contain a great deal of power in society and must therefore also obtain responsibility.

The problems associated to political consumerism are connected to poor information. Citizens may make wrong political decisions since the information presented to them is poor or faulty. Another problem is the lack of tools to measure political consumption; we do not know how important it is in comparison to other political activities.

It is difficult to compare traditional politics with political consumerism since they target different issues and work in different ways. However, political consumerism is not a threat to traditional politics and should instead be recognised as a compliment.

Den politiska utvecklingen i västvärlden håller på att förändras. Deltagandet i politiska partier och ideella organisationer minskar och denna individualistiska trend anses vara ett hot mot demokratin. Dock finns det forskare som hävdar att det politiska deltagandet påvisar en förändring till en ny typ av deltagande som kan stärka det demokratiska systemet.

De politiska partierna utgör basen för det demokratiska systemet. Partiets makt grundas i att representera medborgarna i beslutsprocessen. Trots det utvecklas partierna från organisationer med en klar koppling till sina kärnväljare till röstmaximerande organisationer som vill attrahera den breda massan. Eftersom partiernas mål är att få så många röster som möjligt har nya partier och andra politiska aktörer effektivt kvarhållits utanför systemet.

I den här uppsatsen observeras den individualistiska trenden genom politisk konsumtion. Den politiska konsumtionen beskrivs som en politisk aktivitet där konsumtion används som påverkningsmetod. Att aktivt välja produkter som representerar vissa värden påverkar företag att jobba mot dessa värden. Det är en fri och individualistisk rörelse utan klara regler. Den typiska polisiska konsumenten är en ung kvinna med högre utbildning och en inkomst över genomsnittet. De politiska konsumenterna föredrar att involvera sig i frågor av personligt intresse istället för bred partipolitik. Företag anses ha mycket i samhället och måste därför också ta ett ansvar.

Problemen med politisk konsumtion är kopplade till dålig information. Medborgare kan ta felaktiga politiska beslut när den disponibla informationen är dålig eller oriktig. Ett annat problem är att det saknas verktyg att mäta politisk konsumtion. Vi vet inte hur viktigt fenomenet är i förhållande till andra politiska aktiviteter.

Det är svårt att jämföra politisk konsumtion med traditionell politik eftersom de jobbar på olika sätt mot olika frågor. Hursomhelst, politisk konsumtion är inte ett hot mot traditionell politik utan bör snarare ses som ett komplement.

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Meiklejohn, David. "Shopper's attitude to green consumerism." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1992. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ENV/09envm512.pdf.

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Bhogal, Anoop. "Goddesses of consumerism : an interpretivist study of young female consumers in contemporary India." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/9390.

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Marketing and consumer research scholars have paid little attention to the contemporary Indian consumer landscape, with even less focus on the particular experiences of female consumers in this context. This thesis contributes to a partial redress of this parochial and Eurocentric status quo in consumer culture research by presenting the voices and critically exploring the lived experiences of consumer culture of a sample of young female Indians. A selective review of the multidisciplinary literatures on globalization, consumer culture and India is used to develop a conceptual framework for this thesis, and to situate the research aims in contemporary and relevant scholarship. The aims of the research are to understand and describe the meanings, values and lived experience of contemporary consumer culture of a sample of young female Indian consumers; to establish the extent to which, and describe how, global flows of culture serve to hinder, propagate or catalyze markers of distinction between rural and urban consumers; and to establish whether and how traditional belief systems and practices influence young consumers’ identity projects in contemporary Indian society. In addressing these aims, the thesis documents the design and execution of a two month multi-method interpretive research study of twenty three young urban and rural women living in New Delhi and at its fringes. Through coding and categorisation, a reading of the data presents three key findings. Firstly, that media is an important medium through which notions of urban and rural identity and difference are constructed. Secondly it demonstrates how the body, as site of consumption, becomes tempered through Vedic ideals of womanhood. Thirdly, it presents a context specific understanding of consumer culture in the East which previous research has masked. Additionally, a data-driven framework for understanding the consumer experience of the sample of respondents is also presented.

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Barber, Jennifer P. "Indian chick-lit : form and consumerism /." Electronic version (PDF), 2006. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2006/barberj/jenniferbarber.pdf.

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McNeil, Alison. "Structure of desire, consumerism and architecture." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq39687.pdf.

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Hayward, Keith J. "Crime consumerism and the urban experience." Thesis, University of East London, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.532482.

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While criminology has always enjoyed a highly productive relationship with the city, generating many innovative empirical and theoretical studies, this dissertation asserts that, too often, the conceptualization of urban crime that stems from these varied accounts is somewhat limited. Most significantly, these accounts have left us with a very lopsided interpretation of the crime-city nexus that frequently distils human experience, social diversity and the inherently pluralistic fabric of city life, to leave only the discourse of demographics, statistics, environmental multi-factorialism and rationality. In an effort to address this shortcoming, this work begins by bringing together research from both within and outside of the mainstream criminological enterprise - most notably, social theory, urban studies, architectural theory and research into urban consumption practices - in a bid to present a more rounded account of the contemporary `urban experience', and, importantly, its relationship to urban crime. Central to the thesis is the argument that the late modern urban experience is increasingly constituted around the new and distinct social and cultural practices associated with a fast-paced consumer society. It is asserted that not only is consumer culture bringing about changes in the physical and structural nature of urban space, but it is also precipitating and engendering within individuals new and distinctly 'postmodern' forms of concomitant subjectivity that, in many cases, find expression through crime. Drawing on various insights of the `new cultural criminology' - most notably the work of Jack Katz (1988) - the thesis sets out to identify and explore the overlapping theoretical terrain that now exists between the categories of urban experience, consumerism and crime - the express intention being to formulate these insights into a tentative conceptual framework for thinking about certain forms of criminality under the unique conditions of late modernity.

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Ruiter, Catharina Angelique. "Kundalini Yoga in Berlin: Teaching Consumerism." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/22062.

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In dieser Studie werde ich die Kundalini Yoga Lehrergemeinschaft in Berlin als meine Fallstudie nehmen, um zu untersuchen, inwieweit kulturelle Hybridität in diesem Yoga-Strom gestaltet wird. Ich werde beschreiben, wie die betreffende Community Sikh-Elemente in ihren Unterricht einbezieht und gleichzeitig das westliche Publikum anspricht, indem sie Kundalini Yoga an den lokalen Kontext anpasst. Ich werde auch mitnehmen welche Rolle Konsumismus bei der Gestaltung der Gemeinschaftskultur spielt, wobei die entstandene hybride Kultur aus einer Mischung östlicher und westlicher Elemente besteht. Diese Dissertation konzentriert sich auf die Frage, wie Kundalini Yoga in Berlin (oder besser gesagt seine Lehrer) eine hybride Kultur schafft, in der Yoga für eine Praxis geeignet ist, die in der dominierenden kapitalistischen Kultur in Berlin akzeptabel ist (z. B. Yoga auf Fitness und Stress reduzieren), während gleichzeitig neue Elemente und Bedeutungen in diese dominante Kultur eingefügt werden, die zur Bildung einer lokalen KundaliniYoga-Kultur beitragen, die durch die Funktionsweise des Konsums vorangetrieben wird. Ziel dieser Forschung ist es, einen Beitrag zur Erforschung der (kulturellen) Hybridisierung angesichts der Globalisierung zu leisten. Darüber hinaus wird meine Arbeit zur Erforschung des Yoga beitragen und meine Arbeit wird die Hybridisierung neu konzipieren, indem ich die Rolle des Konsums bei der Hybridisierung lokaler Kulturen untersuche.
In this thesis, I will take the Kundalini Yoga teacher community in Berlin as my case study in order to investigate the extent to which cultural hybridity is present in this yoga stream. I will discuss how the community in question incorporates Sikh elements in their classes, while also catering to their western audience by adapting Kundalini Yoga to fit the local context. Also, I will look at the role consumerism plays in shaping a community culture that consists of a mix of eastern and western elements. This thesis focusses on the question of how does Kundalini Yoga in Berlin (or rather its teachers) create a hybrid culture where yoga is appropriated to a practice that is acceptable in the dominant capitalist culture in Berlin (e.g. reducing yoga to a fitness and stress- reduction practice), while also inserting into that dominant culture new elements and meanings, contributing to the formation of a local Kundalini Yoga culture, propelled by the workings of consumerism? The objective of this research is to contribute to the body of research on (cultural) hybridization in the face of globalization. Furthermore, my work will contribute to the body of research on yoga and my work will re-conceptualize hybridization by looking at the role consumerism plays in the hybridization of local cultures.

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Landriaux, Jo-Anne. "False illusion : animals, nature and consumerism /." Online version of thesis, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11296.

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Newholm, Terry. "Understanding the ethical consumer : employing a frame of bounded rationality." Thesis, Open University, 2000. http://oro.open.ac.uk/58071/.

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This thesis is about ethical consumers. In some business circles ethical consumers are treated simply as one kind of consumer in a market society where a niche can be created to satisfy every preference. Conversely some advocates of more radical change propose consumer activism as part of a movement which will force ethical considerations into the decision-making of capitalist businesses and governments alike. Questions about ethics are central to consumer society. Unlike most recent research into the 'green' or 'socially conscious' consumer that has been based on either extensive quantitative surveys or focus groups, the research presented here analyses consumer decisions in a social context. Sixteen case studies of ethical consumers in differing circumstances are developed in considerable detail. Starting from the theoretical observation that being an ethical consumer presents apparently daunting difficulties, especially with respect to decision making, the research uses bounded rationality theory to explain how these cases maintain their self-image as ethical. From these data I suggest thinking of ethical consumers as adopting coping strategies. Those contributing to the study were seen to be 'distancing' themselves from practices they consider unethical, 'integrating' their lives around addressing the issues current in ethical consumer discourse and/or 'rationalising' their ethical consumption against their acceptance of consumer capitalism. Each strategy can be shown to reduce the scope and/or difficulty of decision making. Finally, consideration is given to the nature of ethical consumption as a political project. Individual consumers respond in diverse ways to a social discourse on any given ethical issue even where strong and clear consumption advice is given. I argue that ethical consumerism is limited by the capacity of individuals to give attention to more than a few actions. Its political significance is nevertheless enhanced by the unpredictability of consumer response.

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Constant, Alice. "Girl power? : young women, girl bands, femininities and feminisms." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2002. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.246480.

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The thesis is an exploration of how young women are embedded within and (re)construct discourses of gendered identity within consumerist/capitalist culture, in relation to popular music. Theoretical analysis is juxtaposed throughout with interviews I conducted with 46 young women aged between 11 and 18 years old which took place in schools and a youth centre in Manchester and Salford. The importance placed on the interviews reflects my attempt to privilege young women as the primary focus of the research. The interviews were a means of situating young women's discursive engagement with popular culture in relation to gender identities. The main body of the thesis begins with an exploration of how young women are situated in relation to discourses of social class, ethnicity and sexuality, including how social class connects with young women's lives in relation to popular culture, how to theorise blackness and whiteness, and ways of opening up discussions of both heterosexuality and homosexuality. I then widen the remit of the thesis, by considering where the young women I interviewed are situated in relation to discourses of femininity, utilising theories of the 'male gaze', and of representations of the feminine in popular culture. How these young women's lives relate to feminisms, and feminist work, particularly in relation to structural inequalities, equal rights and sexual behaviour, are then investigated. Finally, the thesis analyses the extent to which the young women's talk in the interviews constructs themselves and others as individual consumers, and examines how this may impact on young women's lives. The thesis concludes how young women's accounts are embedded in a discourse of individualism. Societal structures which help to construct or maintain gendered, racial or sexual inequalities are often ignored in the young women's talk, since the individual as consumer is situated at the centre of their talk. Forms of feminism which attempt to explore inequalities beyond those of 'equal rights' then fail to impact on the young women as an audience. The young women's talk demonstrates that inequalities continue to exist in their lives, and yet popular culture does little to provide solutions or even acknowledgement of these inequalities. I suggest that since the analysis of the thesis has indicated that available feminisms have often failed to engage with young women in meaningful ways, in the future feminists need to highlight ways of challenging inequalities which young women encounter in their day-to-day lives.

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Fourie, Elizabeth. "The representation of materialist consumerism in film." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/954.

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People are constantly bombarded with the latest technology, the latest fashion, the latest ‘must have’ item. We are encouraged to buy things that promise to change our lives and give us satisfaction or even create happiness. Interestingly we often succumb to the temptation of these material things, which is not always a negative reaction; however it does become negative when our lives are controlled by material possessions and we give up certain aspects of who we are to enable us to obtain these possessions. Further more it becomes problematic when we start to rely on material possessions to define us in terms of our identity or to help us fit into particular groups within society. With the media playing such a large role in societies at present it is almost inevitable that the phenomenon of materialist consumerism will make its way into the media. The media however holds control, to an extent, over whether or not materialist consumerism is viewed in a negative or affirmative light. An analysis of the representation of materialist consumerism in selected instances of mainstream cinema will be the aim of my proposed study. The study will look at the representation of materialist consumerism in so far as it offers viewers a place to ‘fit’ into a particular group within society. The group I am referring to can be categorised as the upper-middle class of contemporary western society. I have thus selected films that represent this group specifically. For the purpose of the treatise ‘materialist consumerism’ is understood as a way of life, or alternatively, an ideology, which assumes that the accumulation of material wealth through consumption imparts meaning to human lives. The treatise will analyse both sides of the coin, or in other words films that support or promote materialist consumerism and those that either revolt against or criticise this form of consumerism. The study will explore different aspects of consumerism in so far as these are represented in the films, with an identifiable axiological bias.

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Armstrong, Alison J. "Mindfulness and consumerism : a social psychological investigation." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.576094.

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We must consume to live. However, the consumption of goods and resources in developed countries is so considerable that it is associated with low psychological wellbeing and is a contributor to several social and ecological problems. The psychological motivators that sustain such consumption may relate to attempts to resolve affect or identity difficulties, whereby consumer activities and goods offer emotional or symbolic functions. At an extreme, compulsive buyers are addicted to buying, and thus experience a range of psychological, relationship and financial difficulties. This thesis explores the concept of mindfulness as a distinctive way of thinking and being: non-judgementally aware of the present moment. Through mindfulness, human wellbeing needs can be met by shifting default perspectives around such psychologically motivated consumption. It is suggested that mindfulness can enable an improvement in wellbeing and reduced reliance on consumption behaviour or goods to fulfil affective or symbolic needs. There is a paucity of research applying mindfulness to consumption-related applications, and thus the potential mechanisms for change and possible outcomes are largely unknown or only hypothesised. To address this, three studies explore whether mindfulness has measurable potential in this area, and what is experienced when either general or compulsive buying groups learn mindfulness. The first study confirms that mindfulness is negatively related to variables connected with consumption, and positively related to wellbeing measures. The second study provides insights into learning processes and reported changes resulting from mindfulness training. Compulsive buyers were researched in the third study. Findings show that learning mindfulness brings reported change in areas related to affect regulation and sense of self experiences such that there is a decreased emphasis on consumer goods being sought for their emotional or symbolic properties. The implication from these studies is that increasing mindfulness is potentially beneficial for individual, social and ecological wellbeing.

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Theron, Jean Monique. "Political Consumerism: Possibilities for International Norm Change." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/4109.

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ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Consumers are gradually becoming influential actors in the international arena. The 21st century consumer has taken on a new identity, namely that of a citizen-consumer. A rising awareness of the importance of ethical purchasing behaviour has made political citizen-consumers a vehicle through which change in normative behaviour in the capitalist world economy could be attained. Activists have realised the support that political consumers could give to campaigns that strive to achieve norm change. Consumers have the power to hold multinational corporations (MNCs) accountable for unjust practices, and through their purchasing decisions, pressure MNCs to change the manner in which they operate. In order to determine to what extent political consumerism could contribute to international norm change, one has to understand how norms emerge, when norms are accepted and at which point norms become internalised. The theoretical framework of the life-cycle of norms is ideal to test the possibilities that political consumerism holds in the quest for norm change. The application of norm life-cycle framework to case studies provides evidence that political consumerism has already announced itself as a vehicle for change. Campaigns such as the conflict diamonds campaign and the Fair Trade movement have already successfully co-opted consumers to support the goals of these campaigns and have achieved some results in changing the behaviour and policies of MNCs. Political consumers have therefore already embarked on the journey towards norm change, but have not yet been able to bring the norm to internalisation. The study determines which stage in the norm life-cycle political consumerism has managed to reach. Related to this, it asks whether it is in fact possible for activists and political consumers to complete the norm life-cycle and thereby effect norm change to enhance capacity for social justice in capitalism. The study also concerns itself with the persuasion strategies that have been used and could still be used by activists to pursue change in the normative behaviour of consumers and MNCs. Persuasion is central to convincing actors to accept and internalise a new norm. The study situates these persuasion strategies within the norm life-cycle, in order to identify the challenges facing the consumer movement and possible solutions to assist political consumerism to reach its full potential.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In die internasionale arena het verbruikers gaandeweg die rol van invloedryke akteurs begin aanneem, naamlik dié van burgerlike-verbruikers. ‘n Toenemende bewustheid van die belangrikheid van etiese aankope het gedurende die 21ste eeu die politieke burgerlike-verbruiker in ‘n akteur omskep, wat normatiewe verandering in die kapitalistiese globale ekonomie te weeg kan bring. Aktiviste het besef dat politieke verbruikers steun aan veldtogte kan verleen wat na norm verandering streef. Omdat verbruikers oor die vermoë beskik om multi-nasionale korporasies (MNKs) vir onregverdige gebruike aanspreeklik te hou deur aankoop besluite, kan hul sodoende MNKs dwing on hul gebruike te verander. ‘n Begrip van die ontstaan en aanvaarding van norme, kan ook help om vas te stel tot watter mate politieke verbruiking tot internasionale norm verandering bydra. Die teoretiese raamwerk van die lewens-siklus van norme is ideaal om die potensiaal van politieke verbruiking te toets. Die toepassing van die norm lewens-siklus op gevallestudies bewys dat politieke verbruiking alreeds as ‘n middel vir verandering uitgekristaliseer het. Veldtogte, soos die konflik diamante veldtog en die “Fair Trade” beweging, het alreeds daarin geslaag om verbruikers te werf om die doelwitte van hierdie veldtogte te steun. Hierdie veldtogte het sodoende daarin geslaag om die verandering van MNKs se gedrag en beleid te bewerkstellig. Politieke verbruikers het hul reeds met die veldtog geassosieer om norm-verandering te laat plaasvind. Die studie het bepaal watter stadium in die norm lewens-siklus politieke verbruiking reeds bereik het, asook of dit moontlik vir aktiviste en verbruikers is om die siklus te voltooi en norm-verandering te laat plaasvind. Hierdie norm-verandering sal ook die vermoë vir die sosiale regverdiging van die kapitalistiese stelsel verbeter. Die studie het ook die aktiviste se oorredingstrategië uiteengesit, asook watter strategië in die toekoms kan gebruik word om die normatiewe gedrag van verbruikers en MNKs te verander. In die aanvaarding van nuwe norme speel oorreding ‘n belangrike rol. Die studie plaas daarom hierdie oorredingstrategië binne die norm lewens-siklus, sodat dit die uitdagings kan identifiseer wat die verbruikers-beweging in die gesig staar. Dit sal daarom vir die studie moontlik maak om werkbare opplossings voor te stel, wat politieke verbruiking tot sy volle potensiaal kan voer.

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Carlsson, Angelika. "[Re]using : Architecture that changes consumerism patterns." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-171679.

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In the last decades our unsustainable lifestyles and consumption patterns has led to the climate crisis we are now facing. To try to change the patterns we need to be more aware of the amounts of things, furniture and clothes we buy and then throw away, but also what the solutions to these problems could be. The importance of reusing has been the driving force for this project and my proposal is a physical space to manifest and change the way we consume. Spaces for collecting, storing, creating and redistributing things are placed out to make visitors and things move through the building to make a theatrical impression. The shelving system on the inside is exposing the things, furniture and clothes to the street and the surroundings. The Reusing centre is a proposal that aims to add a public platform for reusing in Umeå that gives opportunity for a more sustainable lifestyle for the citizens. The project is intervening in the local company Balticgruppen’s planned development for Östra Station which is a connecting point between important centres in Umeå but also in Norrland. The central location makes the Reusing centre raise awarenessaccessible, visible and able to gather people and things. Architecture from now on needs to be sustainable in many ways, for example in building techniques and design. But it is also important what programs we offer to the people. This proposal is giving space, knowledge and tools for reusing, exchanging, repairing and upcycling to the citizens of Umeå, as these possibilities and functions should be a right for all. The Reusing centre is an urban facility that in our daily lives could help us all to contribute to sustainability and change consumerism by increasing the value of our belongings.

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Sinicki, Justin M. "A Social Psychological Perspective on Student Consumerism." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1493396227402883.

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Abdel-Aleem, M. B. "The promotion of consumerism : An investigation of the business sector role on protecting Egyptian consumers and solving their purchasing problems." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.381151.

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Borges, Fábio Mariano. "Consumerismo e consumidores indignados: netativismo contra as marcas nas redes sociais." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2017. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/20658.

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Digital activism or netativism is a recent advent and expression of the political exercise of users of the cyber world, especially of social networks. One of its types refers to the manifestations of the consumers against the companies through denunciations of crimes and attempt to promote boycott against them, in order to positive results for the collective. In this sense, consumption is seen as an area to political exercise, and this type of practice is even more democratized and accessible through social networks. The present study reflects about the reconfiguration of consumerism, very recently impacted by consumer netativism. Consumerism is a sociological term that names the set of consumer practices in order to exercise power, conquest, maintenance of rights and resistance to the commercial interests of the companies. The object of research is the manifestations of consumer indignation on Facebook between the years 2012 and 2017. For that, was conducted netnography, through monitoring the clashes between consumers and businesses on Facebook. In this sense, the study analyzes consumerism in the form of netativism, as a device of power, as well as consumption, both situated in the concept of biopolitics developed by Foucault
O ativismo digital ou netativismo é um advento recente e expressão do exercício político dos usuários do mundo cibernético, em especial das redes sociais. Uma de suas modalidades refere-se às manifestações dos consumidores contra as empresas através de denúncias de delitos e tentativa de promover boicote contra elas, a fim de resultados positivos para o coletivo. Nesse sentido, o consumo é visto como um terreno propício ao exercício político, sendo que esse tipo de prática é ainda mais democratizada e acessível através das redes sociais. O presente estudo trata sobre a reconfiguração do consumerismo, muito recentemente impactado pelo netativismo de consumidores. O consumerismo é um termo sociológio que nomea o conjunto de práticas de consumidores a fim do exercício de poder, conquista, manutenção de direitos e resistência frente aos interesses comerciais das empresas. O objeto de pesquisa aborda as manifestações de indignação dos consumidores no Facebook entre os anos de 2012 e 2017. Para tanto, foi realizada netnografia, através de acompanhamento e monitoramento dos embates no Facebook entre consumidores e empresas. Neste sentido, o estudo analisa o consumerismo sob a forma de netativismo e as relaçãoes de consumo, como dispositivos de poder, ambos situados no conceito de biopolítica desenvolvido por Foucault

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Neilson, Lisa Anne. "Social capital and political consumerism: a multilevel analysis." Connect to resource, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1156951934.

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Nettleton, Nordica Thea. "Consumerism and communism, the American exhibition in Moscow." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0016/MQ46990.pdf.

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Bartholomew, Richard Edward. "Community and consumerism : the case of Christian publishing." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.409412.

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Chia-Yin, Chuang. "Political Consumerism in Contemporary Taiwan- Customizing a Nation." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.518160.

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Eden, Sally. "Individual motives and commercial retailing in green consumerism." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1992. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/2682/.

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This thesis studies the set of motivations and constraints involved in the purchasing of products perceived to be environmentally friendly, a phenomenon termed green consumerism, and in related forms of public environmentalism, including household-based recycling and membership of organised environmental groups. Both the public and members of organised environmental groups are of interest as potential green consumers, as well as retailers acting as providers of products and information relevant to green consumerism. The emphasis is upon the development of an integrated qualitative framework for studying environmental motivation and behaviour, and the understanding of the interplay of motivations and constraints at the individual level. Individual motivations are studied with respect to perceived responsibility for the environment and the rationalisation of this on the basis of the perceived cumulative impact of public environmentalism en masse. Constraints upon the translation of this responsibility into behaviour include economic priorities, cultural contexts and quality of life concerns and may be external (socially imposed) or internal to the individual. The latter case represents the refusal to sacrifice and the agency therefore present in the choice of proenvironmental behaviour. Retailers motivations are also studied with respect to perceived environmental responsibility, but the economic context of business gives economic constraints higher priority and more power to constrain environmental responsibility than moral judgements alone. Retailers, the media and environmental groups also function as information providers to seek public support. The uncertainty of much environmental information and the layperson’s perceived lack of evaluative ability work to constrain the usability of environmental information and to permit distrust of experts and elites perceived to be in control of information dissemination, within a wider trust of systems of information provision. The immediacy of information links clearly to action, whereas wider issues and impacts further into the future are more weakly connected to proenvironmental behaviour. Generally, the proenvironmental action taken on the basis of these motivations and constraints is perceived as individualistic rather than collective. All these themes indicate that green consumerism, like other public proenvironmental behaviours, depends upon information, responsibility and the belief in impact. However, contextual constraints of cultural norms, economic situations and internal priorities mediate in the adoption of such behaviours. Upcoming changes in law and markets may influence these factors, making the future of this very recent phenomenon as dynamic as its past.

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Molise, Limpho Magdalena. "Consumers’ attitudes toward consumerism, perceptions of specific product-related variables and consumer complaint intention : a Lesotho perspective." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/63289.

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Although substantial literature could be found on consumers’ attitudes towards consumerism and on consumers’ dissatisfaction with consumer products in first- and third-world countries (Lysonski et al., 2012; Orel & Zeren, 2011; Cui, Chan & Joy, 2008; Bhuian, Abdul-Muhmin & Kim, 2001; Varadarajan & Thirunarayana, 1990), no empirical studies could be found that relate to consumers’ attitudes towards consumerism and complaint intentions concerning dissatisfactory consumer products in a Lesotho context. This points to a void in the knowledge regarding consumers’ attitudes towards consumerism and their complaint intentions regarding dissatisfactory consumer products purchased in Lesotho. The aim of this study was to explore and describe consumers’ attitudes towards consumerism, their perceptions of specific productrelated variables, and their complaint intentions following their dissatisfaction with a hypothetical performance failure of a consumer electronic product. In addition, the relationship between consumers’ attitudes towards consumerism and their complaint intentions, and the relationship between their perceptions of specific product-related variables and their complaint intentions were explored. A quantitative methodological research approach was used for this study and a descriptive survey design was followed. Convenience sampling and snowball sampling were employed in this study. In order to participate in the study respondents had to reside in Maseru, be 25 years or older to have acquired some experience with consumer electronic products. The data was collected by means of a self-administered questionnaire and a total of 389 usable questionnaires were collected. Consumer attitudes were measured using an adapted version of Barksdale and Darden’s (1972) “Attitudes towards Marketing and Consumerism” scale. The items pertaining to productrelated variables and complaint action were derived from Keng and Liu’s (1997) “product attribute scale”. The items to measure complaint intention were derived from Singh’s (1988) taxonomy of consumer complaint responses and Day and Landon’s (1977) taxonomy of consumer complaint behaviour. Descriptive statistics were used to describe specific observations by presenting data in a manageable form, including frequencies, percentages and tables. Inferential statistics, including factor analysis, chi-square tests and logistic regression, were used to draw inferences from the findings. Exploratory factor analysis revealed three attitude factors, namely business and marketing influences, government regulation and consumer protection issues, and consumer sophistication. Stepwise logistic regressions to model the influence of the attitude factors, product-related variables, and demographic variables on complaint intention, revealed that (1) the severity of the product failure was the strongest predictor of word-of-mouth, followed by the consumer sophistication attitude factor and then by frequency of use; that (2) social visibility was the strongest predictor of word-of-mouse, followed by consumer sophistication and then by product failure severity; and that (3) price was the only product-related variable that would influence intention to complain to the retailer. The findings emphasise the need for concerted efforts by role players such as retailers, consumer protection organisations and the government to educate consumers about consumer protection issues in order to foster positive consumer attitudes.
Leha boholo ba dingolwa di fumaneha tse supang maikutlo a Baji hodima boji le ho se kgotsofale ha bona malebana le dihlahiswa dinaheng tse ruileng le tse futsanehileng (Lysonski et al., 2012; Orel & Zeren, 2011; Cui, Chan & Joy, 2008; Bhuian, Abdul-Muhmin & Kim, 2001; Varadarajan & Thirunarayana, 1990), ha hona boithuto bo tshwarehang bo ka fumanehang mabapi le maikutlo a baji hodima boji esita le maikemisetso a bona a ho tletleba mabapi le dihlahiswa tse sa kgotsofatseng tse rekwang naheng ya Lesotho. Hona ho supa kgaello ya tsebo mabapi le maikutlo a baji malebana le boji esita le maikemisetso a bona a ho tletleba mabapi le dihlahiswa tse sa kgotsofatseng tse rekwang naheng ea Lesotho. Sepheyo sa boithuto bona e bile ho fatisisa le ho hlalosa maikutlo a baji malebana le boji, tjhadimo ya bona ya diphetoho tse mabapi le dihlahiswa tse itseng esita le maikemisetso a bona a ho tletleba ho latela ho se kgotsofale ha bona ke sehlahiswa sa eletroniki se rekuweng ho tswa ho morekisi. Hodima moo, kamano dipakeng tsa tjhadimo ya bona ya diphetoho tse mabapi le dihlahiswa hammoho le maikemisetso a bona a ho tletleba li ile tsa fatisiswa. Mokhwa wa diphuputso ka dipalo-palo o ile wa sebediswa boithutong bona mme moralo wa tlhahlobo e hlalosehang ka nepo wa latelwa. Mefuta e mmedi ya diphuputso e sebedisitswe: e leng moo ho botswang motho e mong le e mong ya ka fumanehang haufinyane (Convenience sampling) le moo ho botswang feela letoto la batho ba nang le thahasello tabeng e fuputswang (snowball sampling) boithutong bona. E le ho nka karolo boithutong bona, babotsuwa ba ne ba lokela hore e be baahi ba Maseru, ba be dilemong tse 25 ho ya hodimo mme ebe batho ba nang le boiphihlelo tshebedisong ya dihlahiswa tsa eletroniki hape ba bile ba kgola meputso e ba dumellang ho reka tsona dihlahiswa tseo tsa eletroniki. Dikarabo tsa diphuputso tsena di batluwe ka mokgoa wa dipampiri tsa dipotso tse neng di tsamaiswa ke mofuputsi ka seqo mme dipampiri tsa dipotso tse 389 di ile tsa bokellwa. Maikutlo a baji a ile a bekgwa ho sebeliswa mokgwa o loketseng wa sekala sa Barksdale le Darden (1972). Dipotso ho fuputsa mabapi le tjhadimo ea bona malebana le dihlahiswa esita le likgato tsa ho tletleba li nkuwe ho tswa ho Keng le Liu’s (1977) “sekala sa boleng ba sehlahiswa”. Dipotso ho bekga maikemisetso a ho tletleba di nkuwe ho tswa ho Singh’s (1988) “dihlotshwana tse ipapisitseng le tsela eo baji ba hlahisang ditletlebo ka eona” hape ho tswa ho Day le Landon’s (1977) “dihlotswana tse ipapisitseng le boitshwaro ba baji ha ba tletleba. Dipalopalo tse hlalosehang li ile tsa sebediswa ho hlalosa diphihlello tse itseng ka ho manolla lesedi ka tsela e ka matsohong joaloka makgetlo, diperesente le ditafole. Lipalopalo ka dikgakanyo, ho kenyelletsa litlhahlobo tse ipapisitseng le boleng, liteko tsa chi-square le lipalopalo tse kgutlelang morao, di ile tsa sebediswa ho etsa dikgakanyo hodima diphuputso. Boithuto bo tebileng mabapi le ditlhahlobo tse ipapisitseng le boleng di sibollotse maikutlo holim’a maemo a mararo e leng: kgwebo le tshusumetso ya mmaraka, taolo ya mmuso le ditaba tse amanang le tshireletseho ya baji esita le boiphihlelo ba baji. Ditepe tsa lipalopalo tse khutlelang morao, ho bopa tshusumetso mabapi le maikutlo hodim’a maemo, tjhadimo ya diphetoho tse mabapi le dihlahiswa esita le diphetoho tse ipapisitseng le maemo a bophelo ba batho hodim’a maikemisetso a bona a ho tletleba, di sibollotse hore: (1) monyetla o hodimo oa ho senyeha ha sehlahiswa ke ona o hakanyang se buuwang, ho latele boiphihelo ba baji e be jwale makhetlo a tshebediso ya sehlahiswa, hape (2) ponahalo ho batho ebile kghakanyo e kholo ya se buuwang,ho latele boiphihlelo ba baji ebe jwale monyetla o hodimo wa ho senyeha ha sehlahiswa, le hore: (3) poreisi e bile yona feela tsela eo tjhadimo ya diphetoho tse mabapi le sehlahiswa e neng ekaba le tshusumetso hodim’a maikemisetso a ho tletleba ho morekisi. Diphuputso di sibollotse hore tlhokahalo mabapi le matsapa a kopanetsweng ke bohle ba nang le kobo ya bohadi jwaloka: barekisi, mekgatlo e sireletsang baji esita le mmuso a ka thusana ho rupela baji holim’a ditaba tse amanang le tshireletseho ya baji ho fihlela katleho e tlisang ditholwana tse molemo maikutlong a baji.
Dissertation (MConsumer Science)--University of Pretoria, 2017.
Consumer Science
MConsumer Science
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Lamont, Sharon Saint. "We're the last in everything : participation in two community health projects in the north east of England." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.324791.

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Wong, Lucille Jee Wen. "An Econometric Analysis of Consumer Demand in Australia." Thesis, Griffith University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/369105.

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Over the past two decades, Australian consumption patterns have changed for various reasons, including increases in consumers’ real income; rising consumers’ demand for goods and services; and technical and structural changes in the Australian economy. Economic reforms, such as the restructure and deregulation of a range of service industries, reduction in the level of trade protection provided to goods-producing industries, reductions in tax concessions and subsidies to agricultural sectors, have resulted in substantial changes in the relative prices of consumer goods and services. Removal of trade barriers has provided Australian households and businesses access to cheap imported goods like food, clothing and durables. This would, in turn, equate to an increasing re-allocation of consumer income to different goods and services such as health care, education, transport, recreation and financial services. In light of this situation, it is essential to have up-to-date income and price elasticity estimates for Australian consumer goods as they are the key inputs for a number of applications, such as changes to public finance policies and estimation of economy-wide models. A review of the existing literature on the topic reveals that there are several highly influential cross-country studies which provide an analysis of Australian consumption patterns for various time periods ranging between 1943 and 1996. The first part of this thesis considers all consumer goods grouped into ten main broad aggregates, namely that of food, alcohol and tobacco, clothing, housing, durables, medical care, transport and communication, recreation, education, and miscellaneous. It presents an analysis of the Australian consumption patterns of these ten groups using three different demand systems, the Rotterdam model, the CBSmodel, and the AIDS. As well, we test the two important economic theories of consumer demand, that of demand homogeneity and Slutsky symmetry as well as the preference independence utility structure. The test results of these hypotheses shows that the implied income and price elasticities for the ten commodities, presented in this chapter, support the two hypotheses.
Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics
Griffith Business School
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Tong, Chui-shan Zandie. "Revitalization of Nathan Road corridor : landscape + consumerism = urban oasis /." View the Table of Contents & Abstract, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B34609829.

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Josephsohn, Thomas J. "Branding faith object and consumerism in religious identity construction /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4987.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007.
The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on October 29, 2007) Includes bibliographical references.

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Nwankwo, Azubuike Sonny A. "Consumerism : management challenge of consumer protection in national enterprises." Thesis, City University London, 1990. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/7665/.

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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 influence consumer policy decisions when the competitive market mechanism is hindered, and the dilemma facing management in such bounded marketing environments. Fundamentally, two basic approaches to structuring consumer protection have been identified. These relate to, (a) private enforcement, ic. market processes, and (b) public enforcement, ic. political processes. These perspectives were systematically collapsed into Hirschman's Exit/Voice theory and explored using qualitative methodology. Our findings did not broadly uphold the basic configuration of the Exit/Voice paradigm. It is intellectually flawed to insist that decisions about improving enterprises' performance on consumer protection should be impelled by strategies based on those dichotomous perspectives. Strengthening means for consumer advocacy or introducing and protecting competition in the hope that they will concomitantly protect consumers can not, in themselves, assure genuine consumer protection. Consumer protection came through as a discretionary agenda item. It is neither exclusively located in the political process nor in the market mechanism. It is a dependent variable whose behaviour is shaped by variations in management practices. At the enterprise-consumer interface, consumer protection becomes an explicit challenge of management. In terms of institutional arrangements for consumer protection, we did not observe any optimal structure. However, we did observe that the differing approaches that management can adopt can be classified and appraised in relation to four variables. These variables are, (i) Sensitivity (pro-active/reactive), (ii) Definition (consumer/company centered), (iii) Measurement (formal/informal) and, (iv) Implementation (tasks/responsibilities). These variables arc not independent. Their interrelationships lead to a method for evaluating the different approaches in terms of management response to the challenge of consumer protection.

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Tong, Chui-shan Zandie, and 唐翠珊. "Revitalization of Nathan Road corridor: landscape + consumerism = urban oasis." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2005. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45009685.

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Nienass, Sherri. "The Fabricated Shopping Experience: An Impersonal Impression on Consumerism." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5356.

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I have a compulsion to document my surroundings. I do this in all forms possible; through a picture text-message, a point-and-shoot camera, or through a high end camera. Like most women in contemporary society, I feel an expectation to be gorgeous. While I do not feel this pressure directly from my boyfriend or close friends, I am constantly surrounded by advertisements for beauty products enforcing the importance of being attractive. My current occupation as a cosmetic counter makeup artist relies on convincing women to enhance their appearance. I am fascinated by how easily I can persuade clients to purchase unnecessary products. My art is both a celebration and commentary on the beauty industry and contemporary consumerism. My approach to this series is varied and complex. The individuals photographed are unaware of their participation in the creation of my work. I do not intend to exploit the subjects or places that I photograph, rather my work comes from a very natural understanding of this environment based on several years working in a major department store. I attempt to attach multiple emotions of — empathy, humor, and sometimes sympathy — to the moments I capture. My work is not fabricated or recreated, — it is documentary. I am aware of the times I live in, and the people that inhabit these times and places. Once documented, the captured moments in time can be reflected on from a multitude of perspectives at a later place and time. Because I also contribute to the general shopping and grooming experience, the details of these images come from a trained eye and attentive approach. I have chosen to write this thesis in an auto-biographical narrative because I play many roles. I am the retail specialist, the artist, the photographer, and the consumer.
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Visual Arts and Design
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Hon, Ka Ling. "Teacher-student relationship in an age of student consumerism." Thesis, Durham University, 2015. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/11051/.

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This thesis is about teacher-student relationship in higher education. Set against the background of marketization, when the higher education sector is seen as a market, education institutions act like business enterprises, and students are seen as customers, teacher-student relationship is commonly perceived as having transformed itself to resemble a customer-seller relationship. On a conceptual level, this transformation is doing a disservice to the sector, as revealed in the many obvious differences between a customer-seller relationship and that between teachers and students. Academics, in particular, vehemently resist such conceptualizations, blaming such transformations as the main culprit of the prevalence of students’ disengagement and incivility in higher education nowadays. While much of what has been said about the negative influence of student consumerism on teacher-student relationship has been anecdotal in nature, this thesis attempts to offer some empirical evidence to fill the gap in the literature. Because of its quantitative nature, this study focused on only one of the many possible dimensions of examining teacher-student relationship, the power relations, measured by the level of teachers’ influence on students. Using the Interpersonal Power Interaction Model (IPIM) as the conceptual framework, this thesis assesses the relationship between student consumerism and teacher power by (1) examining the association between the students’ consumerist attitude and teachers’ hard and soft power bases and (2) establishing the moderation effect of students’ consumerist attitude on the relationship between students’ personality variables and teachers’ soft and hard power bases. The study was conducted in the HKUSPACE Community College, the leading community college of the sector which has been operating on a fully self-financing status since its establishment in 2000. Data was collected by way of a questionnaire survey covering the key variables including students’ consumerist attitude, compliance with teachers’ power, as well as four personality variables: motivation orientation, desire for control, concern for appropriateness and self-esteem. Statistical analysis of the findings from the research confirmed only some of the hypotheses. In terms of correlation, while students’ consumerist attitude was found to be positively associated with soft power base as hypothesized, its correlation with hard power base was also found to be positive, which was contradictory to the hypothesis. In terms of moderation, consumerist attitude was found to moderate only three out of ten relationships between personality factors and teacher power bases. Specifically, students’ consumerist attitude was found to moderate the relationship between intrinsic motivation and compliance with both hard and soft power bases, as well as that between concern for appropriateness and soft power base. Results have been analyzed in light of the literature on instructional communication and teaching effectiveness with implications offered to warn educators against the potential abuse of soft power as well as on the proper use of both power bases to exercise positive influence on students. Implications were also drawn on further research in the area of teacher-student relationship in the context of a marketized education sector.

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Myers, W. Benjamin. "Shopping the shopper : retail surveillance and performances of consumerism /." Available to subscribers only, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1459904031&sid=10&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2007.
"Department of Speech Communication." Keywords: Surveillance, Performance studies, Ethnography, Capitalism, Panoptican, Shopper, Retail surveillance, Consumerism, Mystery shopping Includes bibliographical references (p. 148-159). Also available online.

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Ruiter, Catharina Angelique [Verfasser]. "Kundalini Yoga in Berlin: Teaching Consumerism / Catharina Angelique Ruiter." Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1220690457/34.

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JOHNSON, COURTNEY. "ADVERTISING AND EDITORIALS WOMEN'S MAGAZINES AS CONDUITS FOR CONSUMERISM." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/190469.

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Stewart, Jessie Ann. "Shopping for Substance: Style and the Material Rhetoric of Conscious Consumerism." OpenSIUC, 2012. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/505.

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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 socially responsible consumers and trends in ethical consumption have been studied for over thirty years. After decades of consumer research and theories about the effects of mass consumerism in culture, conscious consumerism products and marketing campaigns are now major contributors in redefining consumer practices in a postmodern world. The messages they deliver about the changing roles of consumers and consumer goods makes it suitable for rhetorical scholarship to develop a stronger participatory role in the research. I use theories of style, material, and visual rhetoric to examine conscious consumerism today. The texts I examine were also marketing and aesthetic phenomenon. Chapter Three features the "I'm Not a Plastic Bag" canvas tote designed by Anna Hindmarch that was sold at select stores around the world and was one of the first sensations in the reusable bag industry. In Chapter Four, I compare and contrast two artifacts, the Livestrong bracelet and the Support Our Troops magnetic ribbon. I discuss the issues of disposable display, of plastics as markers of belief, and nationalism in our buying practices. Chapter Five is about (Product) RED not just as design but about what its presence does when recognizing issues of globalization. Chapter Six consists of conclusions, limitations, parodic responses to conscious consumerism, and a call for eloquent consuming. While each chapter has a particular focus in theorizing the material of each case study--the communicative praxis of the material rhetoric of canvas, the relationship between the body and the materials bought to put on the body, and larger global concerns within the fabric of language and T-shirts--all three case studies share connections in terms of style and living in a postmodern age.

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Slattery, J. R. "Diet and health: the food industry's response : The reaction of food manufacturing companies and multiple retailers to the official recommendations and current consumer concerns about the relationship between diet and health." Thesis, University of Bradford, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.384264.

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Littler, Jo. "Capital displays : exhibitions and consumer culture in twentieth-century England." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.368277.

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McClain, William David Ross. "The Reality of Consumption." Thesis, University of Iowa, 1998. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5376.

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Makhutla, Esther Nthabiseng. "The impact of fast moving consumer goods on green consumerism." Thesis, University of Zululand, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10530/1391.

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A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Arts in fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Masters in Communication Science in the Department of Communication Science at the University of Zululand, South Africa, 2014.
Manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers of Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) have a social responsibility towards their consumer’s environment. Fast Moving Consumer Goods are consumed on a daily basis and their by-products are often discarded incorrectly, impacting negatively on the environment. However, many companies are beginning to take steps towards ensuring that their products are manufactured according to environmentally friendly conditions. The responsibility should not just be placed on labels, but consumers should be properly educated and guided on how to dispose of a product’s packaging such as bottles, cans and plastic bags. Producers, as well as retailers, of FMCG have an ethical responsibility towards their consumers. It has become fashionable and politically correct for FMCG companies all over the world to publicise themselves as “green companies.” However, the materials used in the packaging of these products are most often found thrown in streets and other open areas in the community. This research investigates the impact that FMCG have on the community’s green space and how companies and retailers can effectively communicate their green consumerism initiatives and demonstrate their CSR for both the environment and their consumers. This study revealed that 53.99% of the respondents do not recycle the unused packaging of goods. The primary reason was that recycling is inconvenient. The other conspicuous reason was lack of knowledge of recycling. Apart from that, they also mention that they do not have recycling bins in the community; they have not enough space in their yard and for the fact that they are not getting any incentives. This study focuses on how companies can assist in saving our planet by embracing the concept of green consumerism holistically. Further, the study exposes challenges faced by companies and social organisations with regard to green consumerism. It also tackles existing initiatives of entrenching green consumerism and the study goes on to offer suggestions and recommendations to effectively embrace green consumerism in a global society.

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Frederiks, Kelli. "Green consumerism : social identity and the theory of planned behaviour /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2006. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe19774.pdf.

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Afflerback, Sara. "Rock-a-Buy Baby: Consumerism by New, First-Time Mothers." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5097.

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Rock-a-Buy Baby: Consumerism by New, First-Time Mothers, is the first known sociological exploration of need-based consumption for babies, despite the baby gear industry being a $6-billion-dollar business (whattoexpect.com). Data stemmed from qualitative, semi-structured interviews with new, first-time mothers (3 months – 1 year postpartum) conducted within participants' households. The insights gained from the present study tell us a great deal about the “needs” that predominantly white, middle-class mothers socially constructed in anticipation of their first child, and the consumptive behaviors used to accomplish these "needs." Respondents had turned to similar resources (other mothers, online forums, consumer reports, books, magazines, etc.) to help them construct “need” and formulate decisions among commodities. Provided they were relying on comparable, if not overlapping, bodies of knowledge, mothers' narratives about consumer “need” were often congruent. Additionally, the ways expectant mothers accumulated items are ritualized and made tradition. The baby shower and gift registration process (which all of my respondents participated in to some variation) are social constructions; these practices, which are so strongly tied to consumption, also constituted reality for mothers, and inevitably, their babies.
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Edwards, Amy. "Financial consumerism : mass investment culture and Thatcherism, c.1958-1995." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2017. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7245/.

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The rise of a mass investment culture has been recognised by academics and contemporaries alike. Generally understood in the British context as ‘popular capitalism’, the growing numbers of individuals with a stake in stock markets on both sides of the Atlantic has been an integral part of the advent of what is loosely termed neoliberalism in contemporary societies. However, we know very little about how this mass investment culture developed and evolved in the late-twentieth century, and the relationship it fostered between the individual and the financial services industry. This thesis seeks to explore this phenomenon as it emerged in Britain, in order to highlight the limitations of popular capitalism, both as a political project and as a framework of analysis for understanding the 1980s. Instead a concept of financial consumerism is offered as a more useful lens through which to understand the changes associated with Thatcherism and neoliberal reform in Britain. In doing so, this research moves our site of analysis away from the national and Thatcher-centred bounds of the Conservative Party’s political project, and the economic ideologies of New Right think tanks and economists in Chicago, Germany and Austria. Instead, analysis centres on the actions of agents external to the Conservative Party. They transformed an ideological project designed to create self-governing citizens into a form of consumption which favoured large financial institutions at the expense of the individual consumer.

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Chandler, Michael J. "The impact of technology and consumerism on sermon delivery methodology." Thesis, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10246280.

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The project director conducted the current project to improve his sermon delivery practices and skill level, better equipping him to combat the consequences of exposure to technology and consumerism in his congregation. He researched the impact of technology and consumerism on the ability of his listeners to absorb and retain sermon content. Once he identified consequences of exposure to technology and consumerism, the director researched which sermon delivery characteristics or mechanics he could use to abate such consequences. The director then implemented a sermon delivery methodology in his preaching to abate such consequences by consistently employing the identified characteristics and mechanics. He measured the effect of the delivery methodology on his listeners’ cognition through the use of a pre-test and post-test, administered to project participants. Surveys contained statements related to each participant’s ability to understand and remember the content of the director’s sermon in relation to various delivery characteristics and mechanics. Subjects responded to statements on a scale using strongly agree, agree, not sure, disagree, and strongly disagree. Comparative analysis of survey results before and after project implementation revealed that consistent use of the identified delivery characteristics improved his listeners’ ability absorb and retain sermon content.

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Jin, Hui. "Motivation and behaviour in green consumerism : empirical evidence from China." Thesis, Northumbria University, 2016. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/36138/.

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In light of an increasing demand for environmentally friendly and safe food products and the growing market for green products, there is a need for research that examines how Chinese consumers view and make decisions about buying green food products. Despite the growth in green consumerism, few studies have explored Chinese consumers’ green purchase intentions and real buying behaviour. The purpose of this study is to develop and test a conceptual model that explains the constructs that influence consumers’ real buying behaviour and intention to purchase green products. The data for this study was gathered via a self-completed questionnaire that sought to capture the perception of 720 Chinese consumers located in Beijing and Xi’an. Confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modelling have been used to analyse this primary data. The findings reveal that consumers’ attitudes towards green purchases, subjective norms, moral obligation, and ecological affects have significant positive influence on their purchase intention for green foods, while only purchase intention and consumers’ subjective knowledge have significant positive impact on their actual purchase behaviour for green food. This study fills in knowledge gaps to focus on Chinese green consumption through applying goal-framing theory to examine consumer behaviour towards green foods. This research’s findings emphasize consumers’ subjective knowledge about green consumption which extends goal-framing theory and theory of planned behaviour applying to green food consumerism in the context of China. Meanwhile, this study examined the goal-framing theory’s external validity and testing this theory’s assumptions. This study also provided justification for using the TPB model in explaining the green food buying behaviour. So, the empirical results and findings from this study will be helpful in making a contribution to further expand research in consumers’ behaviour in relation to food consumption. Through better understanding consumer purchase intention and actual buying behaviour toward green food products, the results offered more practical information to policy makers and business leaders to better promote the idea of a green market programme.

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Francois, Samantha Yates. "Girls with influence : selling consumerism to teenage girls, 1940-1960 /." For electronic version search Digital dissertations database. Restricted to UC campuses. Access is free to UC campus dissertations, 2003. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.

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May, M. "ZakkaART: The nexus & remixing of art, design and consumerism." Thesis, May, M. (2017) ZakkaART: The nexus & remixing of art, design and consumerism. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2017. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/36899/.

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This thesis/exegesis and practical project component focuses on the impact and development of key aspects of cultural production that changed the making, viewing and textual reading of art. It explores the context and the legacy of two significant artistic innovations. Firstly, Marcel Duchamp’s introduction of the “readymades” as objects taken from the “everyday” environment and redefined as “art”. Secondly, Pop art is investigated in relation to the movement’s embrace of commodity and consumerism. Combined, these related movements not only dismantled notions of what art might be but also served as precursors to the complex and overarching concepts of “Postmodernism” and “Post-Postmodernism”. Recent developments in art, popular media, technology, design and critical theory are analysed to demonstrate the continued relevance and legacy of the readymades and Pop art. Drawing from the work of Nicholas Bourriaud, in particular, this exegesis foregrounds the cultural influence of design and how it continues to shape contemporary art and its impact upon my own visual arts practice. The use of objects from the everyday are, by their very nature, manufactured and designed, thus embedded within commodity culture. Artists like myself who utilise these products are fusing elements popularised by the readymades and Pop art to re-create the materials into aesthetic and thematic objects and installations. These generative artworks implicitly interpret the fabricated world in which we live. The project component consists of two solo exhibitions, Kaleidoscope (2009) and Zakka♥ (2012), and the duo showing (with artist Dawn Gamblen) of Plasticity (2010) which then developed into Synthetic (2011). Each exhibition explored ideas related to Pop art and the readymade by manipulating everyday items such as paper and plastic objects. The works have a “zakka” (Japanese for “many things”) aesthetic which emphasises the everyday through the use of products to create wall works, site-specific and sculptural installations. These pieces demonstrate zakka — the beauty and significance of the manufactured — together with the relational dynamics of collaboration and the context of architectural space. Each exhibition utilised product multiples, echoing the manufactured and utilitarian nature of consumer goods as media for art-making. Collectively, the works of the artists I investigate in this thesis, alongside my own production component, can be considered “ZakkaART” — art that remixes industrial culture and its influences.

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Holyman, Kaitlyn Isabel Jean. "A Qualitative Deconstruction of Consumerism: The Case of Lost Community." Thesis, Curtin University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/57404.

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Effectively mitigating the destructive impact of overconsumption on the environment first requires the cultural and ideological structures underpinning Western consumerism to be recognised and understood. This research provided insight regarding these structures, through qualitatively deconstructing and analysing interview data. Analysis revealed the complex and deep-seated tension underlying overconsumption between individualistic conceptualisations of being, and the profound desire for meaningful human connection and community. The implications of this tension for sustainability and environmental policy are explored.

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