Ethical Consumption: Practices and Identities

A Realist Approach

Yana Manyukhina (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

184 Seiten

2018
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-89553-9 (ISBN)

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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.

Yana Manyukhina gained her PhD in Sociology and Social Policy in 2016 from the University of Leeds, UK.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	13.06.2018
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in Critical Realism
Zusatzinfo	1 Tables, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-138-89553-9 / 1138895539
ISBN-13	978-1-138-89553-9 / 9781138895539
Zustand	Neuware