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Ethical marketing generally results in a more socially responsible and culturally sensitive business community. The establishment of marketing ethics has the potential to benefit society as a whole, both in the short- and long-term. As such, ethical marketing should be part of business ethics in the sense that marketing forms a significant part ...
Social responsibility in marketing is often discussed with ethics. The difference between the two is that what is considered ethical in terms of business, society and individually may not be the same thing––nor do all business actions necessarily have to be socially responsible in order to be considered ethical.
Marketing ethics is known to have similarities with business ethics. Marketing ethics, however, can be divided into two categories: Positive marketing ethics. Normative marketing ethics. Positive marketing ethics looks at the statement "what is" when it comes to examining marketing practices, an example would be to research fraudulent ...
The social study of marketing is an interdisciplinary area of social science. It combines perspectives from anthropology, economic sociology, science and technology studies, and cultural studies to study consumption. Work in the area emphasizes the social and cultural dimensions of marketing practices but focuses also on technical and ...
Although he never used the words "collective action problem", Thomas Hobbes was an early philosopher on the topic of human cooperation. Hobbes believed that people act purely out of self-interest, writing in Leviathan in 1651 that "if any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies."
Marketing ethics came of age only as late as the 1990s. [103] Marketing ethics was approached from ethical perspectives of virtue or virtue ethics, deontology, consequentialism, pragmatism and relativism. [104] [105] Ethics in marketing deals with the principles, values and/or ideas by which marketers (and marketing institutions) ought to act ...
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Internet ethics; Information ethics; Social ethics – ethics among nations and as one global unit. Population ethics; Sexual ethics; Bridge ethics – codes of ethics applied during play of the card game known as contract bridge. Environmental ethics – concerned with issues such as the duties of humans towards landscapes and species.