Browsing by Keywords "Consumption"
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Accounting for materialism in four cultures
(1999)Accounts for materialism are examined based on qualitative research in Romania, Turkey, the USA, and Western Europe. Various spontaneously offered accounts reconcile the discrepancy between the belief that materialism is ... -
Business cycles and workers' remittances; how do migrant workers respond to cyclical movements of GDP at home?
(International Monetary Fund, 2006)Workers' remittances are often argued to have a tendency to move countercyclically with the GDP in recipient countries since migrant workers are expected to remit more during down cycles of economic activity back home. ... -
Filiz Makarna'nın tarihi ve Türk mutfağındaki yeri
(Bilkent University, 2018)Filiz Makarna, Türk makarnacılık sektörüne girdiği 1974 yılından itibaren kurduğu fabrikası ve piyasaya sunduğu ürünleri ile talebi karşılayan en büyük markalardan biridir. ürünlerini piyasaya sunduğu süre boyunca bir ... -
A historical analysis of consumer culture in Japan: Momoyama-Genroku (1573-1703)
(Bilkent University, 1996)Development of consumer culture between Momoyama and Genroku (1573-1703) in the Japanese history is discussed. During this period, there is a rising merchant class, urbanization, eroticism, increase in leisure activities, ... -
Housing wealth, stock wealth and consumption
(Bilkent University, 2017-02)The growth of the stock market in 1990s and the enormous increase in house market during the last decades have reawakened the wealth impacts on the consumption. The main goal of this study is to determine the differential ... -
Internet censorship in Turkey
(Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, 2015)This study aims to explore Turkish citizen-consumers' understanding of and reactions to censorship of websites in Turkey by using in-depth interviews and online ethnography. In an environment where sites such as YouTube ... -
Islamic encounters in consumption and marketing
(SAGE, 2013-12)In recent years, Islam has become highly visible in media, politics, and the marketplace. The increasing popular and academic attention to Islam is partly driven by the events of 9/11 and the related imperative to ‘‘better’’ ... -
Negotiating tradition, modernity and identity in consumer space : a study of a shopping mall and revived coffeehouse
(Bilkent University, 2001)This thesis explores the meanings consumers give to consuming two social, commercial, and cultural spaces that have predecessors in the Ottomans and that recently have become very popular among young urban modern consumers: ... -
The rise of the shopping mall in Turkey: the use and appeal of a mall in Ankara
(Elsevier, 2005-03)The shopping mall as the site of contemporary consumption has long been attracting the attention of various researchers analyzing socio-spatial dynamics in different cultures. It is the focus of this study of recent ... -
Where religion, community and consumption meet : a qualitative inquiry into the consumption practices of a religious community
(Bilkent University, 2011)It is well established in the consumption literature that consumption is a way that symbolically constructs and reflects the multiple identities consumers have. A part of individuals' identities has a communal nature, ...
