Ethical consumption: practices and identities : a realist approach
In: Routledge studies in critical realism
Abstract
This book engages with the topic of ethical consumption and applies a critical-realist approach to explore the process of becoming and being an ethical consumer. By integrating Margaret Archer's theory of identity formation and Christian Coff's work on food ethics, it develops a theoretical account explicating the generative mechanism that gives rise to ethical consumer practices and identities. The second part of the book presents the findings from a qualitative study with self-perceived ethical food consumers to demonstrate the fit between the proposed theoretical mechanism and the actual experiences of ethically committed consumers. Through integrating agency-focused and socio-centric perspectives on consumer behaviour, the book develops a more comprehensive and balanced approach to conceptualising and studying consumption processes and phenomena. --
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Themen
Sprachen
Englisch
Verlag
Routledge
ISBN
9781315179476, 1315179474, 9781351716451, 135171645X, 9781351716468, 1351716468, 9781351716444, 1351716441
Seiten
xvi, 183
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