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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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.