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Consumer education is the preparation of an individual to be capable of making informed decisions when it comes to purchasing products [1] in a consumer culture. It generally covers various consumer goods and services, prices, what the consumer can expect, standard trade practices, etc.
Buildings in Rio de Janeiro, demonstrating economic inequality. Effects of income inequality, researchers have found, include higher rates of health and social problems, and lower rates of social goods, [1] a lower population-wide satisfaction and happiness [2] [3] and even a lower level of economic growth when human capital is neglected for high-end consumption. [4]
The right to consumer education states that consumers should be able to acquire knowledge and skills needed to make informed, confident choices about goods and services while being aware of basic consumer rights and responsibilities and how to act on them.
The consumer movement is an effort to promote consumer protection through an organized social movement, which is in many places led by consumer organizations.It advocates for the rights of consumers, especially when those rights are actively breached by the actions of corporations, governments, and other organizations that provide products and services to consumers.
Consumer interests can also serve consumers, consistent with economic efficiency, but this topic is treated in competition law. Consumer protection can also be asserted via non-government organizations and individuals as consumer activism. Efforts made for the protection of consumer's rights and interests are: The right to satisfaction of basic ...
One variety of critical consumption is the political use of consumption: consumers’ choice of “producers and products with the aim of changing ethically or politically objectionable institutional or market practices.” [6] Such choices depend on different factors, such as non-economic issues that concern personal and family well-being, and issues of fairness, justice, ethical or political ...
Food safety affects food utilization, [57] and can be affected by the preparation, processing, and cooking of food in the community and household. [ 18 ] Nutritional values [ 57 ] of the household determine food choice , [ 18 ] and whether food meets cultural preferences is important to utilization in terms of psychological and social well ...
Influenced by 19th century positivism [5] and Charles Darwin's evolution, for both Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx, the idea of uncertainty and chance in social dynamics (and thus unintended consequences beyond results of perfectly defined laws) was only apparent, (if not rejected) since social actions were directed and produced by deliberate human intention.