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“Your house looks like that show…”: exploring consumers’ perceptions towards media-inspired home décor

Frontiers in Computer Science
IntroductionThe growing popularity of media-inspired home décor, where consumers draw aesthetic influence from movies and television shows, reflects a broader cultural shift in how individuals personalize their living spaces.
Tausif Mulla, Tausif Mulla, Bincy Baburaj Kaluvilla, Farah Zahidi, Saher Al Sabbah, Ansarullah Tantry   +5 more
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Una aproximación teórica en torno a la dimensión social del consumo simbólico

Comunicación, 2020
El punto de partida de esta investigación es realizar una aproximación teórica en torno al consumo simbólico como un proceso por el cual las personas utilizan símbolos, entendidos estos como productos o marcas, para transmitir elementos identitarios en ...
Paloma Sanz-Marcos
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La redéfinition des plats et des pratiques alimentaires populaires au Mexique 

IdeAs, 2013
Based on research concerning tacos, this article shows, how lower class meals and practices spread to all social milieu. Neither social differences nor symbolic relations among classes disappear through this type of consumption, which actually highlights
Domingo Garcia-Garza
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CONSUMPTION PRATICE IN THE BAUDRILLARD PERSPECTIVE [PDF]

Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences, 2019
This research is a review of consumption practice with the underlying assumption of advanced post-industrial capitalist or postmodern as the consumptive society.
Purwanti S., Mas’ud M.
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Leveraging intrinsically rewarding symbolic attributes to promote consumer adoption of plant-based food innovations

Cleaner and Responsible Consumption, 2022
Food consumption has a significant environmental impact which can be alleviated when consumer adoption of plant-based food innovations is increased. Attempts to increase adoption are often tailored to instrumental product attributes that consumers find ...
Danny Taufik, Emily P. Bouwman, Machiel J. Reinders, Ernst H. Noppers, Hans Dagevos   +4 more
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Just doing it: enjoying commodity fetishism with Lacan [PDF]

, 2010
Despite prolonged resistance campaigns against what are regarded as unethical production practices of companies such as Nike, people around the world still seem to be happy to spend a lot of money buying expensive consumer products. Why is this so?
Batta, Aanka, Böhm, Steffen
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Consumed by influence: the role of social media in shaping maternal identity and product choices during complementary feeding

Frontiers in Communication
IntroductionIn today’s digital age, social media platforms radically transform consumption practices and identity construction. This study examines the impact of influencers’ product recommendations on Instagram on mothers’ product preferences during the
Pelin Ozturk, Cigdem Kaya
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The consumer society and the (false) myth of mass democratisation [PDF]

, 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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Exploring Chinese Millennials’ Minimalist Consumption Behavior in the Context of Global Economic Downturn: A PLS-SEM Analysis Based on Symbolic and Simulacrum Consumption Perception

Behavioral Sciences
In the context of a global economic downturn, Millennials—who represent the emerging primary consumer demographic—are increasingly adopting a minimalist consumption model.
Ya Lu, Tian Zhang, Zhiguo Xu
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Consumption caught in the cash nexus. [PDF]

, 2007
During the last thirty years, ‘consumption’ has become a major topic in the study of contemporary culture within anthropology, psychology and sociology. For many authors it has become central to understanding the nature of material culture in the modern ...
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