Ethical Consumption: Practices and Identities
A Realist Approach
Gebonden Engels 2018 9781138895539Samenvatting
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.
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
Preface
Introduction
Part I Theorising the Ethical Consumer
1. Analysing Consumption: Toward an Integrated Approach
2. Ethical Consumption and Critical Realism
3. Ethical Consumption as a Reflexive Life Project
Part II Studying the Ethical Consumer
4. Studying Consumption: A Realist Approach
5. Meeting the Ethical Consumers
6. Becoming an Ethical Consumer: Moral Concerns, Emotional Commentaries, and Reflexive Deliberations
7. Being an Ethical Consumer: Exercising Moral Agency in the Contexts of Objective Reality
8. The Inner Self in the Outer World: The Social Life of an Ethical Consumer
Conclusion
Index
Rubrieken
- advisering
- algemeen management
- coaching en trainen
- communicatie en media
- economie
- financieel management
- inkoop en logistiek
- internet en social media
- it-management / ict
- juridisch
- leiderschap
- marketing
- mens en maatschappij
- non-profit
- ondernemen
- organisatiekunde
- personal finance
- personeelsmanagement
- persoonlijke effectiviteit
- projectmanagement
- psychologie
- reclame en verkoop
- strategisch management
- verandermanagement
- werk en loopbaan