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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Transitions There are three articles that I read in English that affected me. These readings were “Shoes‚“ Consumerism may be the religion of our time” and “People should spend ethically to minimize the impacts of consumption” . I feel that these affected me the most because of the information it gave. The article “Shoes” affected me because I didn’t like how people were getting treated as only getting paid thirty cents an hour and they couldn’t even drink their own drinking water because
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Consumerism – Bruce Dawe Poetry || 2009 Every society has mythology. In some societies‚ it’s religion. Our religion is consumerism. As we are constantly exposed to mass media and popular culture in our modern society‚ the insidious nature of consumerism has allowed it to penetrate into every aspect of our lives‚ dictating our very beliefs‚ values and wants. Nearly every individual in our society subconsciously conforms to the shallow and superficial mindset that characterises our consumerist culture
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We are living in a time that is facing deep and rapid social changes. These changes are a reaction to social conflicts‚ both within states and beyond them. Whether it is a matter of a social order under the condition of a capitalist system‚ new technological possibilities or a global order in the face of scarce resources‚ climate change and armed conflicts – we are confronting challenges of a new kind that question the traditional conceptions of order. Our society is based upon orders of justification
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Green Consumerism Lewis Mack COM/172- ELEMENTS OF UNIVERSITY COMPOSITION AND COMMUNICATION II September 4‚ 201 Frederick Francis Green Consumerism Green Consumerism happens for many different reasons‚ for instance environment‚ product involvement‚ self-esteem‚ public self-conscience. Environment 1. Products have become more ecofriendly. 2. Resources are stilled required to make ecofriendly products. Product Involvement 1. People determine the purchase of products to the relevance
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Introduction Playing games and watching TV is the favourable moment for the kids‚ no world without it. Healthy and active children is still produced by a country though this phenomena occurs widely. Educational TV for under-twos has little benefit‚ says the US report. The American academy of Paediatrics states that there is evidence to back up advertising claims that television and DVDs can improve social language skills. Children who spend hours every day on their PlayStation or Xbox video consoles
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October 2013 Consumerism and Happiness In modern day society our entire economy is based upon a consumerist system in which people seek happiness through constant expansion of their material standard of living. In consumerism‚ people are driven to consume by two processes; these processes being want-creation and a growth of personal status. In both of these processes one consumes constantly with little to no change in long term happiness. This is because if one lives through consumerism‚ then their
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disrupted. The downside of watching too much television is that it will make the children less creative and more passive where they refuse to leave the spot and would rather just ask someone near them to fetch necessities for them. Thus‚ engendering the effects on the body-activity to malfunction. The body monitors and handles the distribution of energy where it needs the most of it. When you just sit there and watch‚ your body will get confused and the energy distribution will go haywire as it doesn’t have
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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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intentionally or unintentionally‚ our impact on the planet has been mostly negative. The United States in particular has not been treating our planet well. Environmentally speaking‚ The United States is not doing a very good job compared to other countries because of the way we treat our environment‚ our high rate of consumerism and that fact that our basic moral and social values differ from other places around the world. The United States does not look good from an environmental standpoint compared
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