Ethical consumption : practices and identities : a realist approach / Yana Manyukhina.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Manyukhina, Yana, author.

Series:

Routledge studies in critical realism.

Routledge studies in critical realism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consumption (Economics)--Moral and ethical aspects.

Consumption (Economics).

Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects.

Consumer behavior--Moral and ethical aspects.

Consumer behavior.

Consumers--Attitudes.

Consumers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2018.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Theorising the ethical consumer

Analysing consumption : toward an integrated approach

Ethical consumption and critical realism

Ethical consumption as a reflexive life project

Studying the ethical consumer

Studying consumption : a realist approach

Meeting the ethical consumers

Becoming an ethical consumer : moral concerns, emotional commentaries, and reflexive deliberations

Being an ethical consumer : exercising moral agency in the contexts of objective reality

The inner self in the outer world: the social life of an ethical consumer

Conclusion

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-351-71646-8

1-351-71645-X

1-315-17947-4

9781315179476

OCLC:

1031316268