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Supply and demand for low energy housing in the UK: insights from a science and technology studies approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Economic theory about supply and demand suggests that if consumer demand for a product increases then producers respond by increasing supply. In the UK housing market there is emerging evidence of consumer demand for low energy housing, yet little has ...
Lovell, Heather
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Green Talk, Costly Walk: The Financial Cost of Greenwashing

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the financial consequences of greenwashing, operationalized as the misalignment between ESG disclosure and actual ESG performance. While prior research has explored the reputational and ethical dimensions of greenwashing, its impact on firms' cost of debt remains underexamined.
S. Taddeo, A. Regoli, O. Weber, R. Carè
wiley   +1 more source

Sociological analysis of the media consumption practices: Types and methods of the empirical study

open access: yesRUDN journal of Sociology, 2016
In the contemporary society, the media form an essential part of social life and play an important part in the everyday life taking up a huge amount of time, although being a part of many other routine practices.
V N Ilmukhin
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Understanding Ordinary Women: Advertising, Consumer Research and Mass Consumption in Britain, 1948-67 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This paper reflects on the ways market research in Britain helped produce understandings of and information about the ?mass housewife? in the 1950s and 60s.
Nixon, S
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Guidelines for Scale Development and Validation

open access: yesJournal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scales, serving as measurement instruments composed of carefully designed items intended to capture latent constructs, play a critical role in advancing consumer theory and marketing practice. Yet, developing and validating scales poses a formidable challenge due to the diverse methods required to ensure rigor and robustness.
Weng Marc Lim   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Il cosplay e le culture giovanili: interazione sociale, emozioni mediali e performance identitarie [PDF]

open access: yesCulture e Studi del Sociale, 2018
The cosplay, as a subculture, is a complex and stratified media and socio-cultural phenomenon. The approach chosen in the study of some dimensions of the cosplay is that of the sociology of youth cultures.
Alfonso Amendola, Mario Tirino
doaj   +1 more source

The consumer society and the (false) myth of mass democratisation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
About fifty years from its first publication in 1970, La société de consommation. Ses mythes ses structures (Paris Denoël) confirms itself as a lucid analysis of the meanings at the basis of the consumption dynamics within contemporary society.
MARCHETTI, Maria Cristina
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ESG Rating Disagreement and the Size of the Investable Universe Under ESG Consensus Rules

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using ESG scores of listed US companies from Refinitiv, ESG Book, MSCI, Moody's ESG, Bloomberg, and Sustainalytics for the period 2003–2022, we examine the extent of ESG rating disagreement and how it shapes the investable universe under ESG consensus rules.
Christian Lohmann   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reproductions, cultural capital and museums: aspects of the culture of copies

open access: yesMuseum & Society, 2004
The concept of cultural capital is well known in museum studies from pioneering visitor research conducted and reported by Pierre Bourdieu in the 1960s.
Gordon Fyfe
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