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Critical consumption as civic engagement

2019

From the mid-nineties onwards, critical consumption, in its many forms but always intended as a set of actions implemented by those who pay attention, and already in the purchase decision, to the quality of the properties that make a product reliable by following the supply chain according to a logic of social, economic and environmental sustainability, has been one of the most innovative research areas in consumer sociology. Even if articulated in significant rivulets and research paths, sociological studies on critical consumption have highlighted above all their specificity as a set of activities [Leonini, Sassatelli, 2008; Forno, Graziano, 2016] that connotes a double value both civic a…