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As I write this, I am using text-to-speech technology, a nifty online feature that enables the reader to listen to, […]

(Over)consumption, climate change and working from home. These are a few of the concerns at the forefront of consumers’ minds […]

Staying at home has completely changed our buying behaviors. Consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated our technological advancement and […]

We all want stuff, but in our overdeveloped, fast-paced culture we seldom challenge ourselves to ask ourselves the one important question: how much is enough?

Is it possible that the experience of receiving gifts we do not like can take a toll on our mental […]

The coronavirus Christmas of 2020 could turn into a bumper year for giving gifts. Our relationship with spending and the […]

[We’re pleased to welcome Christina Chi of Washington State University. Christina recently published an article in Cornell Hospitality Quarterly entitled “Ready […]

The Guardian yesterday published a set of worrying facts. Even though consumers of higher education pay almost three times as much in tuition fees than they did six years ago, face-to-face with lecturers in class has barely increased

The higher education White Paper published this week by the UK government (‘Students at the heart of the system’) will, […]

A blog by Les Back on Sociology and the Cuts argues that it is wrong to blame consumerist students for the […]