Ethical consumption : practices and identities : a realist approach
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Ethical consumption : practices and identities : a realist approach
(Routledge studies in critical realism)
Routledge, 2018
- : hbk
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  Nagasaki
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  Oita
  Miyazaki
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  Okinawa
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Part I Theorising the Ethical Consumer
1. Analysing Consumption: Toward an Integrated Approach
2. Ethical Consumption and Critical Realism
3. Ethical Consumption as a Reflexive Life Project
Part II Studying the Ethical Consumer
4. Studying Consumption: A Realist Approach
5. Meeting the Ethical Consumers
6. Becoming an Ethical Consumer: Moral Concerns, Emotional Commentaries, and Reflexive Deliberations
7. Being an Ethical Consumer: Exercising Moral Agency in the Contexts of Objective Reality
8. The Inner Self in the Outer World: The Social Life of an Ethical Consumer
Conclusion
Index
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