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Research on Consumer Protection Issues: The Perspective of the “Human Sciences”
Author(s) -
Friedman Monroe
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.618
H-Index - 122
eISSN - 1540-4560
pISSN - 0022-4537
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4560.1991.tb01808.x
Subject(s) - consumer protection , typology , context (archaeology) , perspective (graphical) , consumer behaviour , consumer research , consumer bill of rights , business , marketing , engineering ethics , public relations , political science , sociology , law and economics , engineering , computer science , paleontology , artificial intelligence , anthropology , biology
This article gives an overview of consumer protection issues and the body of scholarly research in the human sciences that addresses these issues. A consumer rights approach is adopted for defining consumer protection issues, and the various articles in this journal issue are briefly described in the context of this approach. Next, overviews are presented of consumer protection issues in the consumer movement, and of consumer protection research relating to consumer behavior and to the societal contexts in which this behavior occurs. Finally, a typology of consumer protection research areas is proposed, based on the human effects of consumer policy initiatives.