Understanding the psychological benefits in organic consumerism: An empirical exploration

This research builds on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) by proposing two additional constructs: warm glow and self-expressive benefits which could further drive consumer attitude and purchase intentions in the context of organic food consumption. We employed structural equation modelling (SEM) technique with Smart PLS 3.0 (Partial Least Squares) for the analysis of the hypothesised relationships between these psychological factors and the constructs of the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB). The theoretical model was tested with samples from India (n = 471) and the USA (n = 440) collected using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (M Turk). Results confirmed the importance of warm glow and self-expressive benefits in organic consumerism in both markets. The study makes an important contribution in adding these two constructs to the TPB and then suggests practical tips to policy makers.     

从消费到创造——消费主义挑战下的共享设计探究

与工业时代相比,信息时代消费主义对于设计的影响只增无减,新的商品和服务层出不穷,令人目不暇接。现代设计之父威廉·莫里斯曾提出将消费者与创造者的身份进行结合的解决办法,这种解决办法在工业时代无法实现,却在信息时代背景下的共享设计中重焕生机。     

从消费主义价值观看农村的建筑节能问题

消费主义价值观从20世纪80年代开始进入中国并产生了广泛而深刻的影响,消费从工具性活动向符号性活动转变,与我国当前的节约型社会的建设在消费观念、消费手段和消费结果等方面存在着尖锐的冲突,严重地影响着人们的消费心理和行为.从消费主义价值观的理论出发,结合我国的国情,阐述了如何正确引导农村的消费观念,指出了农村建筑节能的发展方向和一些节能的新技术,对我国农村的建筑节能工作的开展有一定的指导意义.     

消费主义与国外新建筑的消费化

阐述了消费主义及其特征，从消费主义文化出发，评价了当代西方受消费主义文化影响产生的新的建筑现象，探讨了新世纪建筑学多样发展的可能性。     

“非场所”理论视野中的商业空间——从香港垂直购物中心审视私有领域的社群性

在消费主义与公共空间此消彼长关系的讨论中,建筑师的责任经常被忽视。从这个基本问题出发,依据马克·奥吉的当代人类学方法,以香港垂直购物中心为案例,发现当代都市新的空间对象,并在这个过程中探索私有领域社群空间的人类学含义。香港的特殊政治经济地位孕育了一种在消费空间内形成的市民社会。在亚洲金融危机与SARS之后,香港形成了一种新的消费空间,这些空间整合了观光与消费两种活动,在多种客观压力下创造出了大量极端的空间组织形式。针对这种现象,试图探讨这些新的空间组织形式在重构人群的身份认同中的作用。     

The conditioning of comfort

This commentary considers how the insights from the Building Research & Information 2008 special issue on ‘Comfort in a Lower Carbon Society’ impact upon our understanding of the nature of comfort demand; their importance and relevance to the theory and policies of building comfort; and the commentary draws upon changing comfort practices in other parts of the world. One of the most important contributions of the collection is to situate comfort historically and technically, but also to give attention to the social consequences of air-conditioning. Air-conditioning has brought with it an encapsulation of home within house and has led to significant changes in the social geography of home and neighbourhood. The social, material and discursive facets of air-conditioning are globalizing at a rapid pace, fostered by the spread of inappropriate building practices, faith in modern scientific solutions to achieving comfort, and new ideas about the human body. Local knowledge about climate and comfort is waning in many parts of the world, and cooling comfort increasingly relegated to technical experts. This collection makes an important contribution to understanding how air-conditioning has become pervasive and suggests new lines of thinking in the crucial effort to move towards a less carbon-intensive comfort regime.

Ce commentaire explique comment les informations contenues dans le récent numéro spécial de Building Research & Information consacré au confort dans une société sobre en carbone ont une influence sur la nature de la demande de confort, sur son importance et sur sa pertinence par rapport à la théorie et aux politiques de confort; il s'appuie également sur des pratiques de confort qui évoluent dans d'autres parties du monde. L'une des contributions les plus importantes de cette collection est de resituer le confort sur le plan historique et technique mais aussi de prêter attention aux conséquences sociales de la climatisation. Avec la climatisation, le foyer se trouve encapsulé dans la maison, ce qui a conduit à des changements significatifs de la géographie sociale du foyer et du voisinage. Les aspects sociaux, matériels et discursifs de la climatisation se mondialisent à un rythme rapide, favorisés par des pratiques de construction inappropriées qui se répandent, par la foi dans des solutions scientifiques modernes pour obtenir le confort et de nouvelles idées sur le corps humain. Les connaissances locales sur le climat et le confort s'estompent dans de nombreuses parties du monde et le confort par le refroidissement est de plus en plus remis dans les mains d'experts techniques. Cette collection est une contribution importante qui explique comment la climatisation est envahissante et suggère de nouveaux axes de réflexion concernant l'effort à faire pour évoluer vers un état de confort exigeant moins de carbone.

Mots clés: comportement adaptatif, agence, climatisation, confort, consumérisme, demande d'énergie, satisfaction des occupants, géographie sociale, consommation durable     

现代人自我认识的困境

对于社会的微观个体来说，现代性的负面影响在于被推入自我认识的困境之中：政治上陷入科层制的宰制，经济上沦为消费主义意识形态的玩物，文化生活中则为无孔不入的大众传媒所摆布。这一负面影响使现代人失去精神家园，自我呈现出碎片化的色彩。现代人需要认识这种困境，寻回总体性以弥合自我认识的分裂状况。     

透视我国电视谈话节目的多元语境

我国电视谈话节目的兴旺是多元语境作用下的结果.具体表现在:政治方面意识形态的淡化与公共领域的振兴;文化方面大众文化的扩张与精英文化的式微;经济方面消费社会的崛起与消费主义的抬头;心理方面倾诉意识的觉醒与窥视欲望的滋长.     

Exploring predictors of consumer digital engagement and political consumerism in corporate political advocacy

Though a nascent field, corporate political advocacy has gained increasing attention as practitioners and scholars seek to understand how companies perform their community citizenship while motivating consumers to engage in corporate political advocacy initiatives, particularly on social media. From the perspective of lifestyle politics theory, this study used a survey (N = 913) to explore the factors that are associated with two responses to corporate political advocacy––consumer digital engagement in response to corporate political advocacy (CDE-CPA) and political consumerism (i.e., buycotting and boycotting). The findings suggested different mechanisms for CDE-CPA and political consumerism. We found that weekday social media usage is positively associated with CDE-CPA but negatively associated with buycotting. Also, extraverted individuals prefer to engage in CDE-CPA activities but not political consumerism; and emotionally stable individuals tend to engage in buycotting and high-CDE activities to support corporate political advocacy.     

消费主义,城市品牌化与城市设计

在一个消费主义高度盛行的世界,城市均在致力于打造独一无二的品牌以提升自身的国际竞争力和经济优势、品牌使城市成为商务、旅游、创意人群的目的地——那些在大城市中追求带有炫耀性消费的新中产阶级。,超大型级别的城市设计,以及改善街道、广场、公园等公共区域的品质,都对城市形象及其品牌起到重要作用,然而,在城市品牌的营建过程中,贫困者被遗忘,对可持续问题的考虑也仅流于表面。城市设计中具有竞争力的方法需要被聚集在一起以解决21世纪人们须面临的新问题。城市设计应具有多项功能以满足不同阶层人群的各种需求。