Consumers Of The Postmodern World: Theories Of Anti-Consumption and Impression Management

Year 2010, Volume: 29 Issue: 2, 495 - 512, 27.03.2015

Ülkü Yüksel Muneeza Mirza

Abstract

This manuscript examines the underlying interconnectedness of consumerism, postmodernism, globalisation and anti-consumption with a basic conceptual approach. Philosophical foundations of key terminology are explicated with a juxtaposition of modernism and postmodernism to elucidate their similarities and differences effectively. Furthermore, the complexities of consumer buying behaviour in a post-modern environment, stemming from impression management and resulting in anti-consumption practices are analysed. The need to study anticonsumption tendencies as a vital element of consumer behaviour is also identified, as the traditional approach to consumer research appears inadequate and insufficient in the context of a post-modern world. 

Keywords

anti-consumption, consumerism, consumption, globalisation, impression management, modernism, postmodernism

POSTMODERN TOPLUMDA TÜKETICİLER: TÜKETİM KARŞITLIĞI VE ETKİLEME YÖNETİMİ TEORİLERİ

Abstract

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Keywords

tüketim-karşıWOığı, tüketiclik, tüketim toplumu, postmodernizm, küreselleşme, etkileme yönetimi

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