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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 ...
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 ...
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.
Macromarketing is an interdisciplinary field that studies marketing as a provisioning technology of society. It focuses on marketing-society interactions including such topics as marketing systems, aggregate consumer behavior, market regulation, social responsibility, justice and ethics in markets, and sustainable marketing.
Societal marketing should not be confused with social marketing. Societal marketing is a philosophy or mindset that informs marketing decisions whereas social marketing is a distinct branch within the marketing discipline. Societal marketing is concerned with the consideration of the social and ethical aspects of marketing planning.
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 ...
The Potter Box is a model for making ethical decisions, developed by Ralph B. Potter, Jr., professor of social ethics emeritus at Harvard Divinity School. [1] It is commonly used by communication ethics scholars. According to this model, moral thinking should be a systematic process and how we come to decisions must be based in some reasoning.
With roots in sociology and literary criticism, it argues that social problems stem more from social structures and cultural assumptions than from individuals. [ citation needed ] Some hold it to be an ideology, [ 2 ] others argue that ideology is the principal obstacle to human liberation. [ 3 ]