Fit for Consumption - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fit for Consumption write by Jennifer Smith Maguire. This book was released on 2007-09-06. Fit for Consumption available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first text to offer a comprehensive socio-cultural and historical analysis of the current fitness culture. Fitness today is not simply about health clubs and exercise classes, or measures of body mass index and cardiovascular endurance. Fit for Consumption conceptualizes fitness as a field within which individuals and institutions may negotiate - if not altogether reconcile - the competing and often conflicting social demands made on the individual body that characterize our current era. Intended for researchers and senior undergraduate and postgraduate students of sport, leisure, cultural studies and the body, this book utilizes the US fitness field as a case study through which to explore the place of the body in contemporary consumer culture. Combining observations in health clubs, interviews with fitness producers and consumers, and a discourse analysis of a wide variety of fitness texts, this book provides an empirically grounded examination of one of the pressing theoretical questions of our time: how individuals learn to fit into consumer culture and the service economy and how our bodies and selves become ‘fit for consumption.'
Fit for Consumption
Fit for Consumption - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fit for Consumption write by Steve Berman. This book was released on 2021-10. Fit for Consumption available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Berman's latest short story collection, the phrase "you are what you eat" is taken to heart; these are stories of men facing strange appetites within their own physicality, within a lover or, perhaps, a stranger's hungers. A young athlete attends an exclusive wrestling camp, but some of the campers are more focused on the unwelcome boys they claim lurk inside their bellies. A fixit man on a mission to retrieve a runaway finds himself forced into impersonating a pulp hero by her captor. Life as a pledge at a New Orleans fraternity is made all the worse when a magical--perhaps cursed?--flask that fills with whatever the bearer desires, yet also causes the drinker to desire the pledge. With stories inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, and Ramsey Campbell, the menu has thirteen tales that range from the weird to the humour noir to the monstrous. No digestif is necessary.
The Interdisciplinary Science of Consumption
The Interdisciplinary Science of Consumption - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Interdisciplinary Science of Consumption write by Stephanie D. Preston. This book was released on 2014-08. The Interdisciplinary Science of Consumption available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Scholars from psychology, neuroscience, economics, animal behavior, and evolution describe the latest research on the causes and consequences of overconsumption. Our drive to consume—our desire for food, clothing, smart phones, and megahomes—evolved from our ancestors' drive to survive. But the psychological and neural processes that originally evolved to guide mammals toward resources that are necessary but scarce may mislead us in modern conditions of material abundance. Such phenomena as obesity, financial bubbles, hoarding, and shopping sprees suggest a mismatch between our instinct to consume and our current environment. This volume brings together research from psychology, neuroscience, economics, marketing, animal behavior, and evolution to explore the causes and consequences of consumption. Contributors consider such topics as how animal food-storing informs human consumption; the downside of evolved “fast and frugal” rules for eating; how future discounting and the draw toward immediate rewards influence food consumption, addiction, and our ability to save; overconsumption as social display; and the policy implications of consumption science. Taken together, the chapters make the case for an emerging interdisciplinary science of consumption that reflects commonalities across species, domains, and fields of inquiry. By carefully comparing mechanisms that underlie seemingly disparate outcomes, we can achieve a unified understanding of consumption that could benefit both science and society.
The Psychology of Food Safety and Consumption
The Psychology of Food Safety and Consumption - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Psychology of Food Safety and Consumption write by Fu-Sheng Tsai. This book was released on 2022-01-10. The Psychology of Food Safety and Consumption available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Consumption Behaviour and Social Responsibility
Consumption Behaviour and Social Responsibility - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Consumption Behaviour and Social Responsibility write by Karnika Gupta. This book was released on 2020-05-23. Consumption Behaviour and Social Responsibility available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book investigates the concept of consumer social responsibility (CnSR) by considering the combination of ‘consumption behaviour’ and ‘social responsibility’. It puts forward a theory of responsible consumption behaviour, then models and empirically tests this theory using quantitative research methods. In so doing, the book offers a new consumer behaviour model: the C-A-C-B (Concern-Attitude-Commitment-Behaviour) model. The book appeals to readers interested in consumer behaviour, research methodologies, social responsibility, corporate social responsibility, segmentation and profiling, sustainability, and structural equation modelling with path analysis and confirmatory factor analysis. The book also offers concrete recommendations that will benefit businesses and governments alike.
