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'You can't use this, and you mustn't do that': A qualitative study of non-consumption practices among Danish pregnant women and new mothers
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The anti-consumption literature focuses on consumers' reasons for avoiding certain products or brands emphasizing consumers' symbolic and/or political reasons for avoidance as discussed by the authors, and consumers' choices have ass...Abstract:
Anti-consumption literature focuses on consumers’ reasons for avoiding certain products or brands emphasizing consumers’ symbolic and/or political reasons for avoidance. Consumers’ choices have ass...read more
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Negotiating gender identity, motherhood and consumption : examining the experiences of South Asian women in the UK
TL;DR: In this paper, the role of consumption for South Asian mothers living in the UK as they incorporate motherhood into their gender identities was explored, and it was found that mothers regard motherhood as an opportunity to reflect on how they socialise their children; they develop new ways of transmitting elements of their cultural and religious heritage to their children.
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Value conflicts in mothers' snack choice for their 2- to 7-year-old children.
Femke W.M. Damen,Pieternel A. Luning,Gert Jan Hofstede,Gert Jan Hofstede,Vincenzo Fogliano,Bea L.P.A. Steenbekkers +5 more
TL;DR: Insight into value conflicts, which mothers may experience while providing snacks to their young children, can be used for interventions to promote a healthier lifestyle, support the design of new snack products, and give guidance for marketing challenges in global snack markets.
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Negotiating liminality following life transitions: Reflexive bricolage and liminal hotspots
TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted an interpretive exploratory study using in-depth phenomenological interviews with 23 South Asian mothers living in the UK and found that consumers navigate these liminal hotspots in different ways by accepting, rejecting and amalgamating the resources at hand.
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Healthiness, naturalness and sustainability perception of adolescents toward chocolate snack bars
TL;DR: Understanding the healthiness, naturalness and sustainability perception of chocolate snack bars by adolescents may help to better understand drivers for adolescents' snack choices.
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Effect of guilt and the love of money on avoiding luxury clothing brand purchasing
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the effect of the feeling of guilt arising from purchasing high-priced luxury clothing products and the love of money on avoiding purchasing these products and concluded that the variable affecting this intention the most was guilt.
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The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
TL;DR: For instance, in the case of an individual in the presence of others, it can be seen as a form of involuntary expressive behavior as discussed by the authors, where the individual will have to act so that he intentionally or unintentionally expresses himself, and the others will in turn have to be impressed in some way by him.
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Consumption and Theories of Practice
TL;DR: The huge corpus of work on consumption still lacks theoretical consolidation as mentioned in this paper, which is most obvious when contemplating the situations of different disciplines, where there is very little common ground (see, for example, the review in Miller 1995). But the problem is no less great in individual disciplines like sociology, where output seems to have been bipolar, generating either abstract and speculative social theory or detailed case studies.
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Selves in Transition: Symbolic Consumption in Personal Rites of Passage and Identity Reconstruction
TL;DR: The consumption of aesthetic plastic surgery is examined within the broader context of daily life in an investigation of the motives and the self-concept dynamics underlying this symbolic consumer behavior as discussed by the authors, concluding that consumption activities are important to both the maintenance and the development of a stable, harmonious selfconcept.
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Making Sense of Motherhood: A Narrative Approach
TL;DR: In this paper, the author explores how women try to make sense of, and narrate their experiences of first-time motherhood in the Western world and explores the disjuncture that often exists between personal experience and public discourse and the cultural dimensions of expert knowledge.
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