How can we stop the consumption of society, the primary commitment for sociolo-gists in our time?. The paper compares three exemplar approaches to the problem: the sociology of experience by François Dubet, social and economic regulation after the ...
Arnaldo Bagnasco Bagnasco
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A Behavioral Model of Conumption Patterns: The Effects of Cognitive Dissonance and Conformity [PDF]
Cognitive dissonance causes people to rationalize actions that differ from their own preferences.Conformity, on the other hand, causes people to change their behavior as a result of pressure from others.This paper investigates the consequences of ...
Nir, A.
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From Cellblocks to Suburbia: Tattoos as Subcultural Style, Commodity and Self-expression [PDF]
This research study uses scholarship on tattooing, popular cultural representation and the practice and experience of tattooing to look at how subcultures (social groups excluded from mainstream society) express themselves through style and how style ...
Teffs, Erin
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Study on prediction and influencing factors of energy consumption in Jiangxi province [PDF]
This study aims to determine the main factors affecting energy consumption in Jiangxi Province, and to forecast energy consumption effectively. An indicator system of energy consumption influencing factors containing 17 variables is constructed from 4 ...
Xia Hui
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Globalization of Consumption, Lifestyles And 'Viral Society'
O presente texto debate o processo central da globalização do consumo de produtos e serviços, e a sua influência nos estilos de vida dos agentes sociais. Por exemplo, consumo de bebidas, alimentação, informação e bens ou serviços de centros comerciais.
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Proposition d’un modèle d’éducation à la consommation au secondaire
Consumer education is part of the transversal contents of the Quebec high school education program (MEQ, 2004; MELS, 2007a et b). Although there are several ways to integrate consumer education into the curriculum, the Ministry provides few means for ...
Adolfo Agundez Rodriguez +2 more
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ASPECTS OF THE EMERGING INFORMATION SOCIETY IN RELATION TO THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT [PDF]
The emergence of information society and the need to comply with sustainable economic development requirements have brought to the attention of experts the issues related to the impact of using on a wide scale information and communication technologies ...
Andreea-Clara MUNTEANU
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Sustainable consumption: from escape strategies towards real alternatives [PDF]
Better sustainability policy is supposed to lead to better sustainability performance. Nonetheless, recent research predicts further growth of the ecological footprint and stable ecological deficit in Europe and North America despite their impressive ...
Csutora, Mária +2 more
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The Timing of Daily Demand for Goods and Services – Multivariate Probit Estimates and Microsimulation Results for an Aged Population with German Time Use Diary Data [PDF]
Though consumption research provides a broad spectrum of theoretical and empirical founded results, studies based on a daily focus are missing. Knowledge about the individual timing of daily demand for goods and services, opens – beyond a genuine ...
Dominik Hanglberger +2 more
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La consommation collaborative aux États-Unis
This article studies one of the most striking evolutions of the United States consumer society by focusing on the fast-growing sharing economy, also sometimes called collaborative consumption.
Marie-Christine Pauwels
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