Transformative consumer research for personal and collective well-being [electronic resource] / edited by David Glen Mick [and others]

"Daily existence is more interconnected to consumer behaviors than ever before, encompassing many issues of well-being. Problems include unhealthy eating; credit card mismanagement; alcohol, tobacco, pornography, and gambling abuse; marketplace discrimination; and ecological deterioration; as w...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Mick, David Glen
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, ©2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • Transformative Consumer Research for Personal and Collective Well-Being
  • Foreword
  • Editors
  • Contributors
  • Reviewers
  • I. Declaring and Projecting Transformative Consumer Research
  • 1. Origins, Qualities, and Envisionments of Transformative Consumer Research
  • 2. Foundational Research on Consumer Welfare: Opportunities for a Transformative Consumer Research Agenda
  • 3. Activism Research: Designing Transformative Lab and Field Studies
  • 4. Sensitizing Principles and Practices Central to Social Change Methodologies
  • II. Economic and Social Issues
  • 5. Conducting Transformative Consumer Research: Lessons Learned in Moving From Basic Research to Transformative Impact in Subsistence Marketplaces
  • 6. Transformative Consumer Research in Developing Economies: Perspectives, Trends, and Reflections From the Field
  • 7. Hope and Innovativeness: Transformative Factors for Subsistence Consumer-Merchants
  • 8. Discrimination and Injustice in the Marketplace: They Come in All Sizes, Shapes, and Colors
  • III. Technological Edges
  • 9. Internet Indispensability, Online Social Capital, and Consumer Well-Being
  • 10. Social Media for Social Change: A Transformative Consumer Research Perspective
  • 11. Quality of Virtual Life
  • IV. Materialism and the Environment
  • 12. What Welfare? On the Definition and Domain of Transformative Consumer Research and the Foundational Role of Materialism
  • 13. Sustainable Consumption and Production: Challenges for Transformative Consumer Research
  • 14. From Profligacy to Sustainability: Can We Get There From Here? Transforming the Ideology of Consumption
  • V. Enhancing Health
  • 15. Tackling the Childhood Obesity Epidemic: An Opportunity for Transformative Consumer Research
  • 16. Processing and Acting on Nutrition Labeling on Food: The State of Knowledge and New Directions for Transformative Consumer Research
  • 17. Transformative Consumer Research for Addressing Tobacco and Alcohol Consumption
  • 18. Using Behavioral Theory to Transform Consumers and Their Environments to Prevent the Spread of Sexually Transmitted Infections
  • VI. Consumer Finances
  • 19. Addition by Division: Partitioning Real Accounts for Financial Well-Being
  • 20. Understanding Consumer Psychology to Avoid Abuse of Credit Cards
  • 21. Employee Retirement Savings: What We Know and Are Discovering for Helping People Prepare for Life After WorkVII. Other Risky Behaviors and At-Risk Consumers
  • 22. A Model of Self-Regulation: Insights for Impulsive and Compulsive Problems With Eating and Buying
  • 23. Gambling Beliefs Versus Reality: Implications for Transformative Public Policy
  • 24. Porn 2.0: The Libidinal Economy and the Consumption of Desire in the Digital Age
  • 25. Neuroscience and Addictive Consumption
  • 26. Toward a Process Theory of Consumer Vulnerability and Resilience: Illuminating Its Transformative Potential
  • 27. Consumer Well-Being in Later Life.