Confronting obstacles of self-confidence, cultural norms, and language barriers, discontent Non-Western female consumers (NWFC) who were born, raised, and live in China, Nigeria, and India, and who do not directly express their concerns through Western online tools, are consider…
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Jesse is in his early twenties and stuck in Salinas, California. He works at Lenscrafters, making glasses, making decent money and he is comfortable. The novel opens when Jesse.s high school friend, Ben, is visiting from Los Angeles, where he is a screenwriter. The two go to a p…
The dissertation explores the consumption practices of economic elites in Amman, Jordan, with elites defined as those individuals possessing both the means and the inclination to enjoy the luxuries of a consumer lifestyle. The reciprocal influences of the purchase and use of a w…
In attending to consumption as a defining feature of life in Western societies, existing consumer research has tended to envisage, construct and reproduce ‘the consumer’ as either enthusiastically embracing the delights of the market, or as actively resisting or rebelling agains…
The recent expansion of general practitioner (GP) out of hours cooperatives indicates that many British GPs see this as the solution to managing out of hours work, particularly the 'problem' of 'inappropriate' demand. This thesis investigates the highly contentious subject of 'i…
This thesis is about ethical consumers. In some business circles ethical consumers are treated simply as one kind of consumer in a market society where a niche can be created to satisfy every preference. Conversely some advocates of more radical change propose consumer activism …
For the last several years a great deal of research has been carried out under the general heading of Consumer Behaviour. Researchers are studying consumer purchasing behaviour in all of its many facets and a great deal of additional highly useful information has become availabl…
The objective of this research is to document the complex journey of wool from cradle to grave and beyond and to analyse the ethical and environmental cost of production from the farm to the knitwear factory, to retail and finally as post-consumer waste. The research findings ma…
Consumption--the throughput of physical material through human lives--is morally complex, and has been inadequately treated in Christian ethical discourse. In this dissertation, I bring together resources from throughout the Christian tradition that can be used in constructing a…
My study examines a group of nine novels and films set in Ivory Coast, Mali, Senegal, Cameroon and Gabon written and produced between 1973 and 2006 in which "the West" and its international finance network are depicted as the fundamental contemporary world power that wields a de…
Among the ethos of consumerism, Selective Memories / Crossing Boundaries acknowledges the power of consumerism, and proposes to ironically integrate consumptive spaces to circumvent censorships in China, and to reveal repressed conversations. Consumerism, which presupposes that …
This an analyzing writing about a two-piece painting series I made for my MFA thesis exhibition. The series is titled “What are they doing?” I will talk about how the paintings were developed and how both images visualize the ideas on behind. The content includes context from my…
Megachurch business is booming, and still, the Western Church is in decline. For the most part, those who call themselves Christian do not engage in discipleship or spiritual formation or integrate as Christians into their local communities. American teenagers reflect a Western …
Muslim online dating has emerged as a recently new phenomenon with real ethical implications. The purpose of this thesis is to examine key ethical issues within the realm of Muslim online dating and highlight guidance and relevant values that are fundamental to the development o…
In the late-nineteenth century, the United States faced a crisis of economic inequality. As increasingly severe economic depressions rocked the nation and brought relations between capital and labor to a breaking point, contemporaries of all types proposed solutions to the crisi…
As one of the most profitable multinational corporations of the last ten years, Apple Inc. has become the gold standard for the production, design, and marketing of consumer electronics. Curiously, Apple products often inspire religious reflection within the imaginations of thei…