The Wasatiyyah-Consumerism Concept as an Equivalent to the Consumerism Phenomenon in Conventional Economy

Social Responsibility, Consumerism, Andthe Marketing Concept

This paper compares the often-criticized "selling orientation" or "selling concept" with the commonly-praised "societal marketing concept "from the perspectives of consumer rationality and persuasibility. It is suggested that both orientations view consumers as relatively irrational and as easily prone to manipulation by marketers. The implications of this similarity are explored from the persp...

Consumerism: a threat to health?

Tara Latimer et al. recently stirred up the debate on health consumerism, so far seen as the promotion of patients’ autonomy, and aimed at improving patients’ choices about their own health. These authors explain that health consumerism was turned into an instrument that, although wearing the clothes of patient-centred care, ‘reflects a philosophy of libertarianism rather than a philosophy of p...

Consumerism versus Producerism: On the Global Menace of "Consumerism" and the Mission of Comparative Law

Consumerism in the doctor-patient relationship.

In the course of his 1980 Reith Lectures on medical ethics, Ian Kennedy discussed the consumer-provider model as the means by which the patient-physician relationship might be regulated, with the patient as consumer having a major role in establishing, monitoring, and enforcing standards of medical practice. Little, a psychiatrist, agrees that such consumer involvement would help to redress th...

Take One - or Three - for the Team: Consumerism as Play

With the expansion of consciousness driven by further discovery and creation of the digital realm, scholars have witnessed the birth of societal structures and cultures, originally found in the physical realm, within the digital realm. This has been documented mainly in the creation of communities within MMORPGs and synthetic worlds 1 [1]. Although these communities are defined as being based a...