Conceptualising ethical consumption within theories of practice

Understanding Ethical Luxury Consumption Through Practice Theories: A Study of Fine Jewellery Purchases

This paper builds on existing research investigating CSR and ethical consumption within luxury contexts, and makes several contributions to the literature. First, it addresses existing knowledge gaps by exploring the ways in which consumers perform ethical luxury purchases of fine jewellery through interpretive research. Second, the paper is the first to examine such issues of consumer ethics b...

Knowing in practice: Re- conceptualising vocational expertise

Philosophy and Ethical Consumption

Introduction This chapter introduces some basic philosophical approaches that are useful in understanding and evaluating ethical consumption issues and ethical consumer behaviour. The chapter is divided into three sections. The first section introduces the two main approaches to ethics in moral philosophy, ‘consequentialism’ and ‘deontology’, and considers how appropriate they are when applied ...

Counseling Theories Within a Postmodernist Epistemology: New Roles for Theories in Counseling Practice

Summer 2006 ■ Volume 84 291 © 2006 by the American Counseling Association. All rights reserved. Theoretical understanding is an essential part of effective counseling practice. Theories help counselors organize clinical data, make complex processes coherent, and provide conceptual guidance for interventions. The overwhelming barrage of information with which practicing counselors are regularly ...

Iranian Physiotherapists’ Perceptions of the Ethical Issues in Everyday Practice

Objectives: Considering the significant role of physiotherapists in the process of rehabilitation, their ethical commitment is essential to successful interaction and care provision. However, investigations on the medical professional ethics ​​in Iran are limited. Generally, research in this regard is rare in Asia. Thus, such studies could improve the moral knowledge of the Iranian physiotherap...