Cultural Consumption Research Articles

Financial literacy and consumer culture in behavioral economics as a condition for sustainable development

The purpose of the work is to study the possibilities of improving financial literacy and economic culture, behavioral economics in conjunction with solving the problems of sustainable development in the economic, environmental and social spheres. The apparatus of "behavioral economics" is applied as a theoretical paradigm that takes into account "psychology" to analyze the behavior of subjects of industrial relations. In the work, the author links financial literacy, behavioral economics, economic culture with the problems of sustainable development, and also reveals the conditionality of this development by the need to increase: the culture of thinking, comprehension of moral values, the level of rational consumption. According to the research hypothesis, the solution of these problems is largely due to the quality of the content of the education and enlightenment system. Financial literacy is considered as a condition for increasing the culture of consumption. The research methodology is based on a dialectical approach, an inductive-deductive method, a descriptive analysis of the fundamentals of the behavior of economic agents: theoretical principles of rational choice (maximizing utility) and observed deviations from rational behavior (limited rationality, behavioral effects and systematic errors associated with them); consumer culture, etc. Projects to improve financial literacy in the higher education system are considered as an educational environment that should be used to form predicative thinking, increase economic culture, culture of thinking, financial literacy, consumer culture, as important components in achieving sustainable development. The author concludes that increasing the financial literacy of the population contributes to an increase in the culture of consumption, which consists in satisfying the natural needs of a person as opposed to irrational behavior and degradation-parasitic consumption, which not only lead to losses in the personal budget, but also increase the destruction of natural resources and the destruction of the biosphere. As a result, it is proposed to supplement the program of improving economic culture conducted by national institutions with the topic of improving consumer culture, to expand the content of the general cultural competencies of the Federal State Educational Institution with a more complete knowledge of dialectics, moral value orientations, and the ability of predicative thinking

Scientific and educational provision of food security at the global, national and regional levels

Ensuring food security is the main issue in solving socio-political problems. The severity and scale of poor-quality nutrition of the world's population are justified by socio-economic factors, which allows us to understand the directions of its solution. Uncontrolled food production and consumption can lead to a catastrophe for humanity. In modern conditions of high uncertainty on world markets in general, on food markets in particular, the intensification of global problems such as climate change and the spread of the pandemic, as well as the conditions in which Russia is placed today in international trade and economic relations, the problem of food security is becoming more urgent than ever before. Food security is one of the strategic components of the national security of the state, the provision of which is defined as the main priority of the agrarian policy of Russia. Only the development of own production will ensure food independence. Of particular importance is the achievement of the maximum level of food security of the country as a result of the substitution of imports of critically important food, as well as everything necessary for their production. Agriculture and the food industry play a decisive role in ensuring food security. The consequences of the pandemic have affected the provision of regional and national food security: the problem of economic accessibility of food has worsened due to a sharp drop in consumer incomes and rising unemployment; the culture of food consumption has changed; a shortage of food has formed, artificially created by consumers themselves due to the general hype; the stop of active export-import operations due to the closure of borders It has led to the complication of logistics chains and a sharp increase in food prices. Within the framework of the study, the scientific and educational component of ensuring global, national and regional food security was studied: the main problems in the field of vocational training and retraining of specialists of processing industries in new crisis conditions were identified, a list of promising areas for the development of scientific directions with subsequent application of the results in the agro-industrial complex industry, as well as the necessary technologies for deep processing of food raw materials needed to increase the level of regional and national food security. A number of recommendations are proposed to ensure effective interaction of scientific, scientific and educational organizations, enterprises of the real sector of the economy and the administration of the Voronezh region.

Aesthetic Ideas in Japanese Classical Literature in the New Media Era

With the rapid development of new media technology, people's reading and cultural consumption methods are also undergoing tremendous changes. However, under the background of this change, Japanese classical literature, as a traditional cultural form, still has rich aesthetic concepts and cultural values. From the perspective of aesthetics, this article discusses the aesthetic concepts in Japanese classical literature in the new media era, aiming to reveal its inspiration and value to contemporary culture.

PERBAIKAN TEKNIK PENGOLAHAN KERANG KUPAS DI DESA PERCUT KECAMATAN PERCUT SEI TUAN KABUPATEN DELI SERDANG

Some of the people of Percut village make a living as fishermen catching fish and collecting shells. The consumptive culture of coastal communities, especially seafood and beach products, provides opportunities to produce innovative culinary businesses. After conducting socialization and hearings with the Percut village community, information was obtained that a breakthrough effort had been made in the marketing of shelled clams. The shelled clams here are sourced from feather clams (Anadara antiquata), although there are several other types of shellfish such as green mussels, hemp clams and other shellfish. On the coast of Percut village it is quite easy to get clams and several other types of shellfish, but the processing is still very simple, namely by simply boiling them. This processed product still contains impurities (sand or mud), the appearance is less attractive, the type and size are not the same and the packaging is not attractive so that the attractiveness and interest of the public to buy is still very low. Therefore, technical improvements are needed from the beginning of the shellfish processing process in order to obtain quality results and be accepted by the market. It is hoped that the improvement in processing techniques for peeled shellfish in Percut village will provide added value from shellfish products and the establishment of a Percut village-specific culinary snack business that will increase people's interest in buying them.

An Identification Method of the Externality of Cultural Facilities from the Perspective of Spatial Distribution of Cultural Industry: A Case Study of Ningbo, China

The identification and depiction of the externality of urban facilities have always been a hot and challenging research issue in human geography and urban planning. However, most of the existing research focuses on exploring the capitalization effect of urban facilities on land prices or housing prices, while ignoring the guiding and promoting effect on related industries. Therefore, this paper proposes an identification method of the externality of cultural facilities from the perspective of cultural industrial agglomeration and industrial abundance, explores the spatial coupling between cultural facilities and cultural enterprises in the central district of Ningbo during different periods, and discusses the role mechanisms of cultural facilities in cultural industry development. Our findings reveal that the spatial pattern of cultural facilities and cultural enterprises evolved in the same way, from single-core or double-core multi-point to “triple-core multi-point,” and there is a certain similarity between the change in the agglomeration pattern of cultural facilities and the evolution of the abundance of cultural enterprises. The externality of cultural facilities is mainly manifested in the promotion of quantitative growth, such as the scale of cultural industry agglomeration and qualitative development, such as industrial structure. These outcomes are mainly realized through the creation of cultural atmosphere, the integration of cultural and commercial functions, and the improvement of cultural consumption and cultural productivity. The research results can offer new policy references for the location and layout of cultural facilities and the incentive development of the cultural industry in Ningbo.

Consumption and hegemony of Japan: A case study on consumer culture of Japanese identity products toward undergraduates

This research aims to find the relationship between consumer culture lifestyle and Japanese identity products with educational background. Through this research, would know the things that encourage consumer culture towards products with Japanese identity. The subject of this study were undergraduates of Jenderal Soedirman University majoring in Japanese literature survey method. This research analysis was descriptive qualitative using the perspective of the lifestyle-culture consumer-culture industry while the data is presented quantitatively. The study found that the tendency to consume Japanese-identified products was due to the impression that they were part of Japan and the belief that Japanese-style variants tasted betters. There are no undergraduates majoring in Japanese literature who consider products with Japanese identity as ordinary goods. That shows that those who have studied Japanese have indirectly been hegemonized and become agents of cultural intermediaries. Through consumption culture, they give meaning to products with a Japanese

Impact of COVID‐19 on fish consumption and nutrition intake—An empirical study

AbstractThis study investigates the effects of COVID‐19 on fish consumption and nutrition intake based on a random survey of 247 fish consumers in Bangladesh. The Propensity Score Matching technique is used to compare fish consumption and fish‐sourced nutrition intake between two groups of consumers before and during COVID‐19. The result shows that 38% overall reduction in fish consumption for the low‐income group compared to lower‐middle, upper‐middle‐ and high‐income groups. Furthermore, per capita consumption of culture and capture fish species decreased significantly for low‐income, lower‐middle‐income, and upper‐middle‐income groups of consumers. It indicates that nutrition and mineral intake have reduced sharply as well Higher energy and K reduction are observed for Pangasius hypophthalmus among different culture fish species while energy and Ca reduction were higher for Wallago attu and Mystus vittatus respectively. Therefore, the government might place a greater emphasis on excluding the food supply chain from lockdown restrictions during a COVID‐19‐like pandemic.

Premodern Germany and the teleology of economic history

Premodern Germany and the teleology of economic history

Platform-mediated live musical performance in China: New social practices and urban cultural spaces

This paper provides a non-Anglo-American geographical discussion of digitally mediated cultural activities. Taking China’s live music industry as an entry point, we seek to theoretically and empirically understand the complex roles of digital technologies that influence contemporary cultural practices. We argue that digital platforms have reshaped the production and consumption patterns of Chinese live musical performance. Focusing on the ShowStart platform as a case study, we measured the role of the platform by collecting and analysing its performance records over a two-year period and observed the rising influence of independent small labels and small-scale performance venues in China’s live music industry. Live houses, a special type of small venues that used to be niche subcultural spaces dominated by underground musicians, have become popular urban cultural consumption spaces in this platform era, expanding rapidly in large cities and expected to gradually penetrate lower-level cities. Furthermore, with the increasing commercialization of the live music market under platformization, we point out that the state’s digital surveillance of the industry is also increasing, and the state’s urban resource allocation for live music venues may be misplaced.

Creative Economy and Sustainable Development: Shaping Flexible Cultural Governance Model for Creativity

With the development of cultural democratization, countries have attached increasing importance to the protection of cultural rights and the promotion of sustainable cultural development. The establishment of a flexible cultural governance model may release the transformative force of culture and creativity, gradually spread cultural values and ideas into governance, and shift activities to more sustainable behavior. This research was divided into two stages. In the first stage, CiteSpace was used to conduct a co-citation analysis of documents published between 2013 and 2022 in the Web of Science database. The results were combined with existing cultural development and value indicators from many countries to design cultural impact indicators suitable for evaluating the sustainable development of creative industries. In the second stage, a questionnaire survey was conducted on the cultural industry, the creative economy, and cultural consumption. Through statistical analysis, six dimensions were obtained, and 20 indicators were cultural sustainability, cultural democracy, cultural innovation, cultural industrialization, cultural vitality, and cultural policy systematization. The cultural governance framework of the creative economy and sustainable development was established through AMOS software. This study found that the humanistic rationality of cultural governance has a significant improvement and stable role in promoting the governance of cultural policies. Adjustable cultural impact indicators are effective cultural practices for shaping and framing creative industries, which should be invented, stabilized and improved.

“They were told it was too Black”: The (re)production of whiteness in Amsterdam-based nightclubs

This article investigates the spatial mechanisms through which cultural commodities are ‘reworked’ to become bound up in localised forms of white hegemony through a case study of cultural production in Amsterdam-based nightclubs. Combining geographical research on music scenes with a cultural geography of music genres, it seeks to understand not only how the production and consumption of electronic dance music has ‘become’ white in the Dutch capital, but also how this whiteness is sustained, how whiteness produces localised Others by connecting place, genre, and race, and how whiteness limits economic and creative opportunities for promoters of colour. Highlighting these processes shows that cultural discourses as well as economic practices inscribe whiteness into nightclub music genres. Rather than conceptualising genres as global entities, the paper analyses how cultural forms are reworked locally and how combinations of styles, or the resistance to combine styles, remakes the social formations that characterise spaces of cultural consumption. It makes these arguments based on qualitative, semi-structured interviews with 36 promoters for Amsterdam-based nightclubs conducted in 2019, short-term ethnographies in nightclubs and at industry events in the same year, and a document-based analysis of newspaper articles between 1988 and 2020. The article aims to contribute to a better understanding of how whiteness is inscribed into cultural commodities, as space reproduces privilege.

An analytical autoethnographic study of culture's role in transformative tourism experiences

Transformations are a social process that has both psychological and social outcomes. However, current studies tend to neglect the social outcomes of transformations, i.e., social transformations, as transformative tourism experience (TE) studies emphasise the psychological transformations from travelling. This study examines tourists' social transformations from travelling to a different cultural environment. It draws upon a co-created TE perspective to expand on culture's role in TE using an analytical autoethnographic method triangulated with twenty bloggers travelling to Vietnam. The study also contributes to a better understanding of TE barriers during cultural consumption and identifying positive and negative (adverse) perspectives, behaviours and values resulting from tourists' cross-cultural experiences. Overall, it contributes to understanding culture's dynamic role in co-created TE. Finally, the study offers practical implications, namely improving cultural explanations in cultural materials to educate tourists, promoting good host-tourist relations, improving competencies in guides, and reviewing and creating a best practice for facilitating TE.

Budaya Konsumtif Makanan Jepang Onigiri dalam Kehidupan Remaja Di Kota Gresik

ABSTRACT
 The development of an increasingly advanced era with technology is developing rapidly, and facilitates the dissemination of information that makes foreign or foreign cultures enter a country. Especially the influence of foreign culture on food has changed the tastes of the Indonesian people. Like fast food, types of food that are easy to pack and practical. One of the practical foods in making or eating it is Onigiri. The method used in this research is a quantitative descriptive method. A method that aims to create an description of a research that uses numbers, starting from data collection, interpretation of the data as well as the appearance and results. Sample collection was carried out by distributing questionnaires in the form of online links to 100 adolescent respondents regarding the consumer Onigiri food in the city of Gresik. In this study using the Likert scale analysis model and spearman rank correlation. The results obtained from the Likert scale data, the most preferred type of onigiri flavor is "Onigiri Hot Tuna", followed by "Onigiri Chicken Mayo", then "Onigiri Chicken Teriyaki" with an interpretation rate of 46.53%, which means that the respondent's interest in onigiri is in the category “No. Like". The results of the Spearman rank test from 1 to 4 from the analysis show that the null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted that the first question and the second question have a significant correlation, meaning that respondents have tried to eat onigiri.
 Keywords: Onigiri, Onigiri Taste, Consumptive Culture

Distinctions in the making: A theoretical discussion of youth and cultural capital.

The aim of this paper is to address the dynamics of contemporary cultural capital by interrogating what counts for young people as valuable cultural resources. Considerable support is given in later scholarship for Bourdieu's model of the social space, as the overall volume of economic and cultural capital combined is regularly found to be the most important axis of opposition, just as in Bourdieu's work Distinction. Yet, while Bourdieu found the second axis to be structured by an opposition between those with cultural rather than economic capital, and vice versa, many later studies instead find oppositions between the young and the old to structure the second axis. Up till now, this finding has not been adequately addressed. In this paper, we hold that considering age-related inequalities offers a powerful way of interpreting recent developments in order to understand the changing stakes of cultural capital, and also their interaction with the intensification of inequalities in economic capital. After a theoretical clarification of the relationship between cultural capital and youth, we will synthesise research on young people and explore the significance of youthful cultural consumption. We will pragmatically focus on the 15-30years old and put a particular accent on Norwegian studies in our review, as they are the most sophisticated in this genre. Four areas are explored: the restricted role of classical culture; the appeal of popular culture; digital distinctions, and moral-political positions as markers of distinction.

Reading Thoreau in the 21st Century

This essay offers a critical re-assessment of Henry David Thoreau’s life and legacy in the context of contemporary critiques of the mainstream environmental tradition. It takes seriously concerns raised about Thoreau’s status as a privileged white male, but calls for more nuance. In particular, the essay challenges those portraits of Thoreau that emphasize Thoreau’s status as a devotee of American nature religion to the exclusion of Thoreau’s significant contributions as an abolitionist and as a prescient critic of an emergent culture of consumption that relied on slavery for its success. The essay assesses the ambivalent legacies that Thoreau left in his wake, demonstrating those moments when Thoreau’s public life as a social critic chafed against his most deeply held spiritual orientations and practices. This essay also argues for the necessity of reading and teaching Thoreau side-by-side with the work of Black writers whose renderings of human-nature relationships both resonate with and depart from Thoreau’s Transcendentalist vision.

ASSESSMENT OF EXISTING APPROACHES TO ECOLOGICAL MARKETING FOR ORGANIC PRODUCTION UNDER CONDITIONS OF MILITARY CONFLICT

The question of the functioning of ecological marketing as an integral system for achieving the appropriate level of food security and the formation of a global ecologically oriented consumption culture is considered. The focus of consideration of this issue is aimed at small and medium-sized business entities in the context of the social responsibility of business to society. The inefficiency and inability of agricultural holdings to ensure the appropriate level of social responsibility from the standpoint of meeting environmental needs is emphasized. An overview of the general indicators of the market situation of the organic products market in Ukraine was carried out. An analysis of the international and domestic legal framework of environmental and organic legislation was carried out and, based on the analysis, modern legal problems were identified and ways to solve them were outlined, taking into account the European integration factor. Particular attention is paid to the issue of Ukraine’s capabilities to actually implement the provisions of the European Green Agreement. The impossibility at the current stage to ensure the necessary rate of cultivation of organic food products, including due to legislative and procedural problems of the domestic organic sector, was emphasized. In addition, the impact of full-scale armed aggression by Russia on the current state of export-import operations on the market of organic products was considered and ways to overcome this problem were determined.

Excessive Food Buying in Saudi Arabia Amid COVID-19: Examining the Effects of Perceived Severity, Religiosity, Consumption Culture and Attitude toward Behavior.

The current study builds on both the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) and Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) to examine why consumers in Saudi Arabia engage in excessive food-buying behavior amid COVID-19. The study tests the direct impact of food consumption culture, perceived severity of COVID-19, and religiosity on excessive food-buying intentions and the indirect effect through attitudes toward excessive food buying. The results of the inner model using SmartPLS4 showed that the perceived severity of COVID-19 has a direct significant positive effect on attitudes toward excessive food buying and excessive food-buying intention. Despite food consumption culture being found to have no direct significant effect on excessive food-buying intention during the pandemic, it has a direct effect on attitudes toward excessive food buying. Surprisingly, religiosity was found to have a positive effect on consumers' attitudes and excessive food-buying intentions. The results confirm that consumers misunderstood Islamic religious principles regarding food consumption, which does not accept excessive buying or food waste. Attitudes toward excessive food buying were found to mediate the relationship between food consumption culture, perceived severity of COVID-19, religiosity, and excessive food-buying intention. The results of the study are discussed and implications are highlighted for academics and policymakers.

‘Seeing is experiencing’: impact of showcasing fashion merchandise on digital platforms

Purpose The principal purpose of this study is to analyze the consumer emotions on virtual merchandising in the context of social consumption ecosystem driven by value and lifestyle across the big middle consumer segment. Design/methodology/approach The qualitative information has been collected from 114 respondents selected through snowballing technique within the metropolitan area of Mexico City. A semi-structured research instrument was used to conduct the in-depth interviews online. Findings The results of the study indicate that technology-led virtual merchandising stimulates arousal and merriment among consumers, which converges the self-image congruence and appearance similarity. The subjects of the study have endorsed that visual stimulus leading to self-image and body image congruence develop consistent arousal and merriment, which lead to positive purchase intentions and buying decisions and inculcate the perception as seeing is experiencing. Research limitations/implications The samples drawn for this study may also limit the possibilities of generalization of the study results and map the consumer behavior in a predetermined pattern. Practical implications This study is founded on the theoretical maxims of theory of visual perceptions, cognitive theory of reasoning, theory of appearance and reality and Heider’s balance theory and contributes to these theories by explaining the relationship between the social self-concept and self-image congruence. Social implications Firms retailing online fashion apparel should also be engaged in developing user-generated contents through communications on social media encouraging experiential videos, slogans and reviews. Originality/value This paper significantly contributes to theoretical and practical implications on virtual shopping, emotions and beliefs and consumption culture.

Identification of a virulent phage infecting species of Nitrosomonas.

In the first and limiting step of nitrification, ammonia (NH3) is oxidised to nitrite (NO2-) by the action of some prokaryotes, including bacteria of the Nitrosomonas genus. A potential approach to nitrification inhibition would be through the application of phages, but until now this method has been unexplored and no virulent phages that infect nitrifying bacteria have been described. In this study, we report the isolation of the first phage infecting some Nitrosomonas species. This polyvalent virulent phage (named ΦNF-1) infected Nitrosomonas europaea, Nitrosomonas communis, and Nitrosomonas nitrosa. Phage ΦNF-1 has the morphology of the Podoviridae family, a dsDNA genome of 41,596 bp and a 45.1 % GC content, with 50 predicted open reading frames. Phage ΦNF-1 was found to inhibit bacterial growth and reduce NH4+ consumption in the phage-treated cultures. The application of phages as biocontrol agents could be a useful strategy for nitrification inhibition without the restrictions associated with chemical inhibitors.

Consumption of pop culture and tourism demand: Through the lens of herding behaviour

Herding is a social phenomenon where individuals act collectively as part of a group and make decisions based on the behaviour and choices of others. In this study, we conceptualise herding behaviour on social media via a two-step flow communication model and measured through Google and YouTube search volume. The estimated herding behaviour is used to develop a novel index to measure the online consumption of Korean cultural products. Monthly data between 2013 and 2019 were used to analyse tourist arrivals from 10 countries. Findings confirm that Korean wave, captured by the index, is statistically significant in predicting tourist arrivals. The study provides a generalised proxy of cultural consumption, applicable to other destinations.