Essays about: "modern consumerism"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 20 essays containing the words modern consumerism.

1. 16. Slow Fashion and how it is beeing communicated-the role of storytelling in engaging consumers in slow fashion

   University essay from Högskolan i Borås/Institutionen Textilhögskolan

   Author : JENNY ERIKSSON; NATALIE KARLSSON; [2014]
   Keywords : Ideology; Slow Fashion; Communication; Storytelling; Engagement; Meaning; Conscious Fashion Consumption;

   Abstract : Background: The fashion industry today is one of constant and unceasing change. It is a segment of materialism, characterised by fast-paced and outsourced production, cost pressed profit structures, and never ending designs and trends. READ MORE

3. 17. The Modern Package: Examining Reactions to the Consumer Society in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Don DeLillo's White Noise

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Author : Andrea Mervik; [2013]
   Keywords : cataloguing; religious interpretations; identity transformation; technology; modernity; consumerism; death in the modern world; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Don Delillo’s White Noise both portray the modern world even though they were written over 60 years apart. READ MORE

4. 18. Dubstep - A journey in to dark sounds, urban spaces and contemporary youth identities

   University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Author : Emilia Frölich; [2009]
   Keywords : youth identities; music culture;

   Abstract : This paper concerns processes of youth identification and formation of lifestyles in relation to the recent British music genre 'dubstep'. The music style is viewed as a modern youth leisure practice which construct social meaning and belonging in an urban translocal environment. READ MORE

5. 19. Influence of Brand Name on Consumer Decision

   University essay from Handelshögskolan vid Umeå universitet

   Author : Tanveer Hasan; [2008]
   Keywords : Branding; Brand Equity; Emotional Branding; Consumer Decision making; ;

   Abstract : In the present developing and modern day world, consumerism has dominated all the aspects of life. The life in the society follows the pattern of the capitalist culture where the human values have a different measure, ‘you are known by what you have not by what you are’. READ MORE

6. 20. THAI UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN THE ERA OF MODERN CONSUMERISM : HOW HAS CONSUMERISM AFFECTED THE LIFESTYLE AND CONSUMPTION OF FEMALE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN BANGKOK WITH THE CASE STUDY OF FASHION?

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

   Author : Munchuta Suadmalai; [2007]
   Keywords : consumerism; students; women; consumption; shopping; fashion; Bangkok; Social sciences; Samhällsvetenskaper; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The purpose of this research was to find how young women in Bangkok spend their money, especially in terms of fashion consumption in the new context of globalized consumer society. The research was conducted through general observations and interviews with designers and fashion shop owners in order to find out their views of fashion and consumption among the young women in the city as well as through interviews with female university students in order to find out their consuming behavior of fashion commodities, lifestyle, views of fashion and what influenced their spree. READ MORE