Between Complacency and Paternalism
Ethical Controversies over Influencing Political and Consumer Choice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5741945 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas Hove (0000-0002-4762-4078, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 644 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 272-279 |
| Publication date | 2012-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002716212453262 |
| OpenAlex | W2035284258 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 8 |
Consumer culture researchers need to acknowledge theoretical problems that can arise when ethical assumptions inform social scientific claims. To identify the origins of these problems, the sociologist Andrew Abbott has developed a framework to illustrate how social scientific claims are continually mapped and remapped onto rival moral perspectives. These perspectives are defined by the relative emphasis that they place on freedom and determinism, agency and structure. When consumer culture researchers attempt to diagnose or influence people's political and consumer choices, they emphasize either one side of these dichotomies or the other. This article adapts Abbott's framework to show how these differing emphases lead to different conclusions about the techniques that educators, social scientists, activists, marketers, and policy-makers should use to improve people's political and consumer choices
Advertising · Agency (philosophy) · Business · Consumer Culture · Determinism · Dichotomy · Epistemology · Paternalism · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Economic Theory and Institutions · Law · Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems · Legal and Constitutional Studies
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,21 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2016 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |