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Serial Murder, Serial Consummerism: Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho (1991)
Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2002 Bret Easton Ellis is a representative blank fiction writer whose novels deal with violence, indulgence, sexual excess, decadence, consumerism and commerce. In American Psycho (1991) he focuses on the phenomenon of the serial killer.
Sonia Baelo Allué
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BRANDS OF PIETY? Islamic Commodification of Polygamous Community in Indonesia
Journal of Indonesian Islam, 2022 The interrelation between the Islamic faith and consumerism has evoked abundant of religious expressions among Indonesian Muslims as well as identity contests and public piety.
Rizqa Ahmadi +2 more
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Consumerism and well-being in early adolescence [PDF]
, 2012 It has been suggested that consumerism is negatively related to well-being in children and adolescents, as well as adults. Few studies have explored whether certain aspects of consumerism have stronger associations with well-being than others, or between-
Bhaskar, A., Hunt, K., Sweeting, H.
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Beyond consumerism: new historical perspectives on consumption [PDF]
, 2004 If there is one agreement between theorists of modernity and those of post-modernity, it is about the centrality of consumption to modern capitalism and contemporary culture. To thinkers as different as Werner Sombart, Emile Durkheim and Thorstein Veblen
Trentmann, Frank
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A social work study on measuring the effects of culturing factors influencing consumerism [PDF]
Management Science Letters, 2013 This paper presents a social work study to measure the impact of various cultural factors on consumerism in city of Esfahan, Iran. The proposed study uses clustering technique to choose a sample of 300 families out of 70,000 residences of this city.
Mohammad Golnari Abbasi +3 more
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The Divine Laws of Charity: The Islamic Solution to Consumerism and Its Consequences
Ijtimā'iyya, 2020 In contradiction with the divine laws of charity imposed by Allah (SWT) on the whole universe, money in the social flow of consumerism runs from the poor consumers to the rich companies and banks.
Zin Eddine Dadach
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Withering the citizen, managing the consumer: complaints in healthcare settings [PDF]
, 2008 This paper considers concepts of citizenship and consumerism in light of complaints about healthcare, which have risen since the early1990s, due to a greater willingness by the healthcare user to complain, and also the reforms in complaint systems.
Allsop +17 more
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CONSUMERISM OF LEISURE CLASS IN SINGAPORE IN KEVIN KWAN’S CRAZY RICH ASIANS: A SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACH
Lire Journal, 2021 This research entitled “Consumerism of Leisure Class in Singapore in Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians: A Sociological Approach”. The purpose of this study is to analyze the leisure class reflected in Singapore in the novel Crazy Rich Asians.
Agni Nurwidia Setiadi, Resneri Daulay
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Discourse analysis of online product reviews: A discussion of digital consumerism and culture
Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberpspace, 2019 This study focuses on consumer interaction via online product reviews in digital markets by incorporating intercultural perspective. In doing so, this study explores the representation of digital consumerism, defined as development of consumer ...
Haseon Park, Joonghwa Lee
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Cleaner Engineering and Technology, 2021 Managing environmental sustainability has become a critical challenge and an essential agenda for academics and corporations alike. This study conducted evidence-based research to explore whether it is possible to maintain a balance between ...
Nina Panizzut +5 more
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