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The Protestant Ethic, sex, and psychotherapy.
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This article is published in American Psychologist.The article was published on 1977-02-01. It has received 71 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Protestant work ethic & Social change.read more
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The Buying Impulse
TL;DR: This paper investigated the subjective experiences that distinguish the onset of the buying impulse, how consumers cope with their impulsive urges to buy, and the types of negative consequences they incur as a result of their impulse buying.
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Some Costs of American Corporate Capitalism: A Psychological Exploration of Value and Goal Conflicts
TL;DR: This article explored the costs of American corporate capitalism and its focus on self-interest, competition, hierarchical wage labor, and strong desire for financial profit and economic growth, and found that these costs often conflict with human pursuits such as caring about the broader world, having close relationships with others, and, for many people, feeling worthy and free.
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Values, assumptions, and practices: assessing the moral implications of psychological discourse and action.
TL;DR: The author proposes for psychology an emancipatory communitarian approach that promotes the emancipation of vulnerable individuals and that fosters a balance among the values of self-determination, caring and compassion, collaboration and democratic participation, human diversity, and distributive justice.
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Images of Ourselves: The Good Life in Twentieth Century Advertising
TL;DR: Using a longitudinal content analysis of advertisements appearing in popular U.S. magazines between 1900 and 1980, this paper assessed the image of life depicted during this period and found that advertising has increasingly portrayed consumption as an end in itself rather than as a means to consumer well-being.
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Heaven on Earth: Consumption at Heritage Village, USA
TL;DR: Heritage Village, home of the PTL ministry, is the focus for a study of consumer behavior involving an explicit synthesis of worship and shopping as discussed by the authors, which seeks to better understand the way these pursuits, seemingly philosophically opposed, are brought together for joint consumption.
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Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a history of the first half of the 20th century, from 1875 to 1914, of the First World War and the Second World War.
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The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism
TL;DR: The Disjunction of Realms: A Statement of Themes The Double Bind of Modernity The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism The Disjunctions of Cultural Discourse The Sensibility of the Sixties The Dilemmas Of The Polity.
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The cultural contradictions of capitalism
TL;DR: The Disjunction of Realms: A Statement of Themes The Double Bind of Modernity The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism The Disjunctions of Cultural Discourse The Sensibility of the Sixties The Dilemmas Of The Polity.
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