Ethical Consumption

Practices and Identities: A Realist Approach
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-82110-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 295 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Critical Realism

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Manyukhina, Yana

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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