A ideologização do consumo consciente: uma análise sobre soberania do consumidor e liberdade de escolha / .

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

01/08/2011

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In recent years, the so-called conscious consumption a way of consuming that takes into account its environmental and social consequences has been arising as a major path for consumers to take part in overcoming environmental crisis. Replacing conventional products by organics or certified ones, separating garbage, reducing water, food and energy wastefulness and so on, are attitudes are becoming part of consumers everyday life, not only because it communicates to companies their consumption preferences, but mainly because demand them to fit in those new set of values. Under these conditions, cleaning production and supplying ecological products and services would not be any longer a mere differential advantage, but a sine qua non condition for companies to survive in the market. Although its essential to settle a new mentality for consumption that embraces social and environmental problems, conscious consumption has been acknowledged as a limited strategy, for other reasons, because it would be facing only the effects, but not the causes of unsustainable consumption patterns, and for implying consumption as an economical exchange in a market scenario, it would not be capable of questioning the crucial issue of changing consumption patterns, which means, a social, political and economic order that has in consumption the basic element that defines habits and contemporary lifestyles. In regard of all these aspects, this work aims to reach a better comprehension of this phenomenon, more precisely in its ideological basis. Insofar the set of international environmental policy measures has met in conscious consumption its platform of action and has been spread out into society by several ways, it seems to be convenient to make an effort to understand how it shapes, to what it leads, whose interests it serves, and mainly if its, in fact, engaged in constructing a new civilizing pattern or, in an opposite way, reaffirms the same logic that, ironically, leads mankind to the current environmental and social crisis.

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conscious consumption consumismo consumo consciente consumption environment ideologia ideology meio ambiente

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