JORIND 9(2) December‚ 2011. ISSN 1596 – 8308. www.transcampus.org.‚ www.ajol.info/journals/jorind CONSUMERISM IN NIGERIA Dr. Anthony .A. Ijewere (senior lecturer) Department of Business Administration‚ University of Benin‚ Benin City‚ Edo State and Stephen .O Obeki Abstract With high corn petition in the business world‚ manufacturers‚ marketers and service providers have been known to engage in several unethical‚ exploitative and misleading practices in their attempts to bedt competition‚ make
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Imprints on Planet Earth | Consumerism effects Is consumerism just another fancy word for shopping? Who is to say that one person’s ecological footprint from consuming has no effect on the planet? An ecological footprint‚ also known as a carbon footprint‚ is the scientific measure of one’s consumption and the effect of their expenditure to the planet earth (Heddings & Frazier‚ 2009). Every small act of consumption is a connection to a larger picture. As the population grows‚ so does
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need to practise green consumerism and put the earth on a recovery path. How can one become a green consumerist? A green consumerist is one who believes in‚ buys and uses products that are safe for environment. Many people feel they are true friends of the environment just because they recycle bottles‚ newspapers‚ plastics and cans or buy unleaded petrol or environmentally friendly items. If that is all they do‚ then such people only pay lip service to green consumerism. Practising recycling
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Consumerism `The only reason a great many American families don’t own an elephant is that they have never been offered an elephant for a dollar down and easy weekly payments.` Mad Magazine What Is Consumerism? There must be more to life than having everything! Maurice Sendak Consumerism it’s a trend‚ an atitude and an choice. According to Business Dictionary[i]‚ consumerism can be defined on three branches.The first branch can be seen as a trend
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been impaired over the past 25 years. Madeleine Bunting also gives us three useful points are given by the National Consumer Council study. NCC point out youngsters knowing the situation‚ the relationship between parents and child and at last that consumerism appears to be most evident in poorer households. A debate was stimulated by the NCC’s recent study The Shopping Generation‚ but its publication got lost in the aftermath of the London bombings and the debate got stuck. One of the big issues with
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crime all over the UK. One of the main targets of the Labour Party was the rising number of Anti -Social incidents reported to the police every day. In order to combat this growing phenomenon that is today’s ’Youth Culture’‚ the ASBO was created. The ASBO - or Anti Social Behaviour Order‚ to quote its official name - is a civil order made against a person who has been shown to have participated or initiated in anti social behaviour. This is defined as "conduct which caused or was likely to cause alarm
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„Cab“ - Version Anti-Lock Braking System for Commercial Vehicles 1st Edition Copyright WABCO 2006 Vehicle Control Systems An American Standard Company The right of amendment is reserved Version 001/12.99(en) 8150100013 815 010 001 3 1 3 Page 1. INTRODUCTION 4 2. SYSTEM FUNCTIONS 5 3. SYSTEM DESIGN AND COMPONENTS 8 4. ABS / ASR SYSTEM DESCRIPTION 10 5. OTHER COMPONENTS 17 6. INSTALLATION 26 7. ANNEX 31 Contents ABS-D 4 1. Introduction 1. ABS-D Introduction Anti-lock Braking
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<i>Every society has mythology. In some societies‚ it ’s religion. Our religion is consumerism.</i><br>Ellen Weis‚ San Francisco ’s Museum of Modern Mythology<br><br>Consumerism fuels the capitalist fire. In a capitalist society‚ the goal is to make money‚ by whatever means possible‚ exploiting whichever potential weakness that might exist. The human race is one with a wild imagination‚ and this wild imagination‚ though a great strength‚ can‚ like all great strengths‚ serve as a potential weakness
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After the examination of the many facets of capitalism and consumerism‚ it became apparent that the modernistic capitalistic system is just another form of social control. Consumers‚ unintentionally are conditioned to reproduce their social standings. By purchasing a product’s symbolic value‚ they signal their wealth and class. Advertisers and marketeers combine the subconscious meaning behind products with tactics to trap consumers into the buy‚ use‚ discard cycle of planned obsolescence.
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subsequent Anti-Rightist movement. The main thrust of the Hundred Flower Movement‚ is summed up in Mao’s maxim‚ "Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend” (bai hua qifang‚ bai jia zhengming). In this essay‚ I will investigate the reasons why the People’s Republic of China thought it was necessary to start a policy self-criticism and how this‚ in a matter of months‚ descended into a crack down of freedom and purge of intellectuals in the subsequent Anti-Rightist
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