Consumer culture and the problem of choice - Why can less be more?

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Consumer culture and the problem of choice - Why can less be more?

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Consumer culture represents a specific type of material culture involving the progressive transformation of the utility and functional value of goods and products into a non-material representation and symbolic significance representing sources of formative social activities, the regulation of interpersonal relations, identity, social roles and self-reflection. The nature of consumer culture is increasing more substantially determined by the explosive offer of the range of consumer products. The hypertrophic amounts of consumer choice are perceived as an important aspect of the freedom of decision-making, an attribute of the society of material plenty and the democratisation of consumer matters. At the same time, however, this gives rise to contradictory effects in the lives of the consumers who are exposed to the chaotic and varied terrain of the plurality of consumer choices. The expansion of the options for consumer decision-making has subjected consumers to the unpleasant pressure of taking respon

Název v anglickém jazyce

Consumer culture and the problem of choice - Why can less be more?

Popis výsledku anglicky

Consumer culture represents a specific type of material culture involving the progressive transformation of the utility and functional value of goods and products into a non-material representation and symbolic significance representing sources of formative social activities, the regulation of interpersonal relations, identity, social roles and self-reflection. The nature of consumer culture is increasing more substantially determined by the explosive offer of the range of consumer products. The hypertrophic amounts of consumer choice are perceived as an important aspect of the freedom of decision-making, an attribute of the society of material plenty and the democratisation of consumer matters. At the same time, however, this gives rise to contradictory effects in the lives of the consumers who are exposed to the chaotic and varied terrain of the plurality of consumer choices. The expansion of the options for consumer decision-making has subjected consumers to the unpleasant pressure of taking respon

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D - Stať ve sborníku

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50400 - Sociology

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2016

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název statě ve sborníku

Megatrends and Media. Critique in Media, Critique of Media.

ISBN

9788081057960

ISSN

2453-6474

e-ISSN

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Počet stran výsledku

14

Strana od-do

161-174

Název nakladatele

Fakulta masmediálnej komunikácie - Univerzita sv. Cyrila a Metoda v Trnavě

Místo vydání

Trnava

Místo konání akce

Smolenice, SR

Datum konání akce

1. 1. 2016

Typ akce podle státní příslušnosti

WRD - Celosvětová akce

Kód UT WoS článku

000402547300011