Open AccessOffensiveness of controversial products for students of three different fields of study in Brazil
Author(s) -
João Lucas Hana Frade,
Jorge Henrique Caldeira de Oliveira,
Janaína de Moura Engracia Giraldi
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
revista de administração da ufsm
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1983-4659
DOI - 10.5902/1983465955122
Subject(s) - offensive , originality , product (mathematics) , psychology , value (mathematics) , field (mathematics) , social science , social psychology , sociology , mathematics , statistics , operations research , geometry , creativity , pure mathematics
Purpose: investigate the offensiveness of controversial products in Brazil, especially the influence of the field of study.Design/methodology/approach: a questionnaire with 11 controversial products was conventionally answered by a sample of 368 college students from the three most popular fields of study in Brazil (i.e. Human Sciences, Biological and Health Sciences, and Exact and Technological Sciences). The offensiveness of each controversial product was measured and compared across those fields of study through t-tests.Findings: Controversial products did not easily offend respondents being guns, weight-loss medicine, and female underwear the most offensive ones. In general, students of Human Sciences are the most easily offended and those of Exact and Technological Sciences the least offended. In addition, results showed differences and similarities between people from each field of study.Originality/value: Improvement of our knowledge about controversial products in Brazil, especially about the influence of the field of study in the offensiveness of controversial products.