The Greening of Consumption: Challenges for Consumers and Businesses by Dąbrowska Anna, Jurowczyk Paweł, Ozimek Irena

“…Despite many initiatives related to the paradigm of sustainable development and the concept of sustainable consumption, the situation is still far from a general departure from mass consumption and consumerism. The article aims to try to synthetically organise the views of other authors on the challenges of greening consumption, both for enterprises and consumers in the context of social responsibility. …”
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Femineidad: segregación y lazos Femininity: segregation and relationships by Patricia Andrea Karpel, Jacqueline Viviana Lejbowicz

“…We wonder for how the feminine thing "happens" or not in these times of decline of the paternal function; how this times of autistic consumerism of toxic substances and images establish crazy ties. …”
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„Ne, das kann ich besser!“ Umfang und Bedeutung der Contemporary TV Drama Serie The Mentalist für FanfictionautorInnen by Julia Elena Goldmann

“…English Abstract: Loners and outsiders, who can be distinguished through excessive consumption of and the knowledge of trivia around a specific cultural product as well as obsessive consumerism of said product – even today the image of fans is a highly stereotyped one. …”
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Curriculum design to improve adolescent social-emotional skills by Rika Yustikarini

“…Strawberry generation, internet addiction disorder, consumerism, identity diffusion, and promiscuity are phenomena that affect adolescents today. …”
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Deciphering the dynamics of human-environment interaction in China: Insights into renewable energy, sustainable consumption patterns, and carbon emissions by Muhammad Khalid Anser, Sajid Ali, Abdul Mansoor, Shafiq ur Rahman, Muhammad Saeed Lodhi, Imran Naseem, Khalid Zaman

“…Regulators may develop all-encompassing strategies to fight environmental damage and encourage a better tomorrow by providing incentives for using alternative energy sources, encouraging environmentally aware consumerism, and using the power of the press.…”
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The New Individualist Perspective: Identity Transformations in the Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis by Anthony Elliott

“…As a consequence, the new individualism – as a construct of identity modes underpinning the global electronic economy of mass consumerism, mass indebtedness and neo-liberalism more generally – has come in for some sustained and probing criticism (see, among others, Smith 2007 and Beasley 2009). …”
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Predictors of financial well-being and mediating effect of financial behaviour among public employees in Putrajaya, Malaysia by Mokhtar, Nuradibah

“…A multistage random sampling was used to gather the 500 data public employees from four ministries, namely, Ministry of Human Resource,Ministry of Domestic Trade, Co-Operatives and Consumerism, Ministry of Education and Ministry of Youth and Sport located in the Federal Territory of Putrajaya. …”
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Enhancing design process efficiency with ergo-aesthetic characteristic through design quality, visual assessment and cultural behaviour of young designers by Zainal Abdullah, Muhamad Ezran

“…The industrial designer plays a vital role within the consumerism cycle by making a new technology or an item a pleasure to be owned. …”
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Avaliação oficial: o que dizem os professores sobre o impacto na prática docente Official evaluation: what teachers say about its impact on teaching practice by Gisele Francisca da Silva Carvalho, Maria do Socorro Alencar Nunes Macedo

“…Results indicate that, faced with government strategies, teachers resort to tactics of consumerism of what is imposed to schools as something to be followed. …”
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A love letter to the American mall by Guida, Nicolo Vincenzo

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Overcoming Premature Smartphone Obsolescence amongst Young Adults by Atrina Oraee, Lara Pohl, Daniëlle Geurts, Max Reichel

“…Virtual communities and reward schemes could further foster lasting normative change, eventually helping redefine the detrimental consumerism culture.…”
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A Design and Implementation Using an Innovative Deep-Learning Algorithm for Garbage Segregation by Jenilasree Gunaseelan, Sujatha Sundaram, Bhuvaneswari Mariyappan

“…A startling shift in waste composition has been brought on by a dramatic change in lifestyle, the quick expansion of consumerism brought on by fierce competition among producers of consumer goods, and revolutionary advances in the packaging sector. …”
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Placelessness Mechanism of Local Restaurants: A Case Study of Heyuan Hakka Restaurant in Guangdong Province by Yang Liang, Zeng Guojun, Zhang Yang

“…With consumerism prevailing in modern cities, their uniqueness and diversity is gradually disappearing. …”
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An examination of the causes, consequences, and policy responses to the migration of highly trained health personnel from the Philippines: the high cost of living/leaving—a mixed m... by Erlinda Castro-Palaganas, Denise L. Spitzer, Maria Midea M. Kabamalan, Marian C. Sanchez, Ruel Caricativo, Vivien Runnels, Ronald Labonté, Gail Tomblin Murphy, Ivy Lynn Bourgeault

“…At the household level, migration has engendered increased consumerism and materialism and fostered dependency on overseas remittances. …”
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El sentido de la vida: factor protector de ansiedad y depresión / Sense of life: protective factor of anxiety and depression by Mª Milagros Armas Arráez, Antonio López Castedo

“…Abstract Currently the human lives in a world of haste, ephemeral pleasure and senseless consumerism, where values seem to have passed into the background, this way of life has generated psychopathologies such as anxiety and depression, because there is an existential vacuum. …”
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“VALENTINE’S DAY: VALORIZE QUEM TE FAZ BEM”: O ENSINO INTERDISCIPLINAR COM ENFOQUE EM QUÍMICA, LÍNGUA PORTUGUESA, INGLÊS E ESPANHOL by Fernanda Welter Adams, Raquel Martins de Oliveira, Ângela Claúdia Dias Domingues

“…From this point of view, the project called "Valentine's Day: Value who does you good" was applied with students in a contextualized and interdisciplinary way, looking up motivation and reflection on interpersonal relations, as well as on unbridled consumerism. In order to do so, it aims to report the potentialities and learning developed through the mentioned teaching project. …”
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PENGARUH PENDAPATAN DAN KONSUMSI RUMAH TANGGA TERHADAP KESEJAHTERAAN KELUARGA PETANI PENGGARAP KOPI DI KECAMATAN CANDIROTO KABUPATEN TEMANGGUNG by Hanifah Amanaturrohim, Joko Widodo

“…The advice given in this study is the Government must have benchmarks as a measure of waging, provide training or direction to create a cottage industry of savings and to guarantee the future and reduce the nature of consumerism.…”
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Consumers' participation in co-creating last-mile logistics : from a discordant value formation perspective by Wang, Xueqin

“…The framework aligns with innovation diffusion theory, attitude theories, service fairness theories, selective information processing theory, green consumerism / scepticism theories, which are used as theoretical anchors of this thesis. …”
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Ten considerations for conservation policy makers for the post-COVID-19 transition by Cooke, SJ, Soroye, P, Brooks, JL, Clarke, J, Jeanson, AL, Berberi, A, Piczak, ML, Reid, CH, Desforges, JE, Guay, JD, Drake, AK, Jardine, AM, Ethier, JP, Keefe, HE, Medd, AM, Edwards, BPM, Reeve, C, Perkovic, A, Frempong-Manso, A, LaRochelle, L, Patterson, S, Roach-Krajewski, M, Howarth, A, Bard, B, Harmsen, EJ, Robichaud, JA, Serré, SJ, Bihun, CJ, Buxton, RT, Nguyen, VM, Woodall, LC, Sutherland, WJ, Bennett, JR

“…Such shifts in behaviours, including travel patterns, consumerism, and energy use, are variously impacting biodiversity during the human-dominated geological epoch known as the Anthropocene. …”

From Soviet intelligentsia to emerging Russian middle class? Social mobility trajectories and transformations in self-identifications of young Russians who have lived in Britain in... by Savikovskaia, I

“…While able to integrate successfully into the emerging Russian middle classes, they still expressed the cultural and intellectual heritage of the past Soviet intelligentsia, now reborn in the guise of Westernizing attitudes and practices, different degrees of cosmopolitan patriotism, intellectual pursuits, a quest for education and self-development, interest in world travel, an ethical concern for sustainability, opposition to excessive consumerism in Russia and conspicuous practices of status performance. …”