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Towards a better understanding of the low income consumer [PDF]

, 2005
Research on low-income or poorer consumers and the disadvantages that they encounter in the marketplace is the focus of this paper. A number of commonly held beliefs about low-income consumers need to be challenged but since these consumers are not high ...
Catterall, M., Hamilton, K.L.
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Imagining sufficiency through collective changes as satisfiers

Buildings & Cities
How can people imagine ways of achieving desirable energy futures in cities, oriented towards sufficiency? Building on the notion of sufficiency understood as avoiding demand while meeting human needs, this paper discusses the results of seven ...
Orlane Moynat, Marlyne Sahakian
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Fashioning identities : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Sociology at Massey University [PDF]

, 1993
This research addresses the way in which individual and collective identities are constructed through fashions in the contemporary western world. The reciprocal and interdependent relationship of processually emergent identities, and fashion as a ...
Green, Nicola Catherine
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Departments and treatment groups at penitentiary facilities in Serbia and evaluation of prison life quality [PDF]

Pravni Zapisi
The paper addresses the issues pertinent to the relationship between the prison social climate and departments as well as treatment groups at penitentiary facilities (MQPL survey). The focal objective of this paper is to investigate potential differences
Ilijić Ljeposava, Stevanović Ivana, Vujičić Nikola   +2 more
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Critique [of Implications for Survival: Coping Strategies of the Women in Alice Walker\u27s Novels by Robbie Jean Walker] [PDF]

, 1987
Intersecting the tools of psychological and sociological research which attempt to explain real human behavior with the tools of the novelist which attempt to portray a fictional accounting of human behavior, Walker presents an analytical model for ...
Scott, Otis L.
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Understanding Ordinary Women: Advertising, Consumer Research and Mass Consumption in Britain, 1948-67 [PDF]

, 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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RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN BASIC EMOTIONS AND REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS ARE MODERATED BY SEX AS AN INTERNAL STATE

Primenjena Psihologija
One of the key features of personality is the existence of inter-individual differences in motivation, emotions and behavior. Individual differences may be maintained in a population if personality traits are linked to states – conditions which affect ...
Janko Međedović, Boban Petrović
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Reform of the Belgian Justice System: Changes to the Role of Jurisdiction Chief, the Empowerment of Local Managers

Laws, 2017
The last waves of reform that affected, and continue to affect, the Belgian legal system led to an injunction for increased responsibility on the part of local managers, the jurisdiction chiefs.
Emilie Dupont, Frédéric Schoenaers
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How can economic sociology help business relationship management? [PDF]

, 2010
Purpose – By analyzing organizations as social actors and business relationships as social relationships, sociology can improve business relationship management. This paper aims to explore the issues involved.
Mike Rich, Tibor Mandják, Zoltán Szántó   +2 more
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Motivations for innovation in the built environment: new directions for research [PDF]

, 2011
Innovation in the built environment involves multiple actors with diverse motivations. Policy-makers find it difficult to promote changes that require cooperation from these numerous and dispersed actors and to align their sometimes divergent interests ...
Bijker W. E., Boland R. J., Chesbrough H., Clarke L. B., DiMaggio P. J., Dodgson M., Dodgson M., Dorado S., Edgerton D., Fagerberg J., Freeman C., Hargroves K., Hughes T. P., Hughes T. P., Jennifer Whyte, Leiringer R., Lounsbury M., Lundvall B. A., Martin Sexton, McMeekin A., Nelson R., Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Oudshoorn N., Piore M., Rittel H. J., Rogers E. M., Schumpeter J. A., Scotchmer S., Scott R. W., Sheffer D. A., Shove E., Steen J., Steen J., Tidd J., Van de Ven A., Vermeulen P., Von Hippel E., Von Tunzelmann N., Wijen F.   +39 more
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