Marketing and Consumer Research in the Public Interest
Edited by:
- Ronald Paul Hill - American University
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Marketing
Marketing
240 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Ethical and social issues in marketing and consumer behaviour are the focus of this book. Leading scholars in marketing discuss controversial, cutting-edge theoretical approaches to investigating public interest. They examine difficult consumption issues such as substance abuse and grieving customers as well as media issues like portrayal of minority groups, target marketing and the impact that idealized images has on consumers' perceptions of their lives. The book concludes with a discussion of legislative and social marketing issues including green buying practices, consumer rights, warning labels and product safety.
Introduction
PART ONE
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Introduction
Julie L Ozanne and Jeff B Murray
Uniting Critical Theory and Public Policy to Create the Reflexively Defiant Consumer
Julia Bristor and Eileen Fischer
Exploring Simultaneous Oppressions
PART TWO
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Introduction
Elizabeth C Hirschman
Professional, Personal, and Popular Culture Perspectives on Addiction
James W Gentry and Cathy Goodwin
Social Support for Decision Making during Grief Due to Death
Linda F Alwitt
Marketing and the Poor
PART THREE
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Introduction
Debra Jones Ringold
Social Criticisms of Target Marketing
Marsha L Richins
Materialism, Desire, and Discontent
Charles R Taylor, Ju Yung Lee and Barbara B Stern
Portrayals of African, Hispanic, and Asian Americans in Magazine Advertising
PART FOUR
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Introduction
J Craig Andrews and Richard G Netemeyer
Alcohol Warning Label Effects
Jeffrey J Stoltman and Fred W Morgan
Expanding the Perspective on Consumer Product Safety
L J Shrum, Tina M Lowrey and John A McCarty
Using Marketing and Advertising Principles to Encourage Pro-Environmental Behaviors