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In 1979 a network of 28 schools was established in the member countries of the EEC in order to develop models of consumer education. This pilot‐project shows that consumer education should be both cross‐curricular and multi‐disciplinary. Even if consumer education has both cognitive, skill‐ and attitude‐orientated goals, it has been the fundamental belief of most participants in the pilot‐project that consumer education should primarily be activity‐based, skill‐orientated, problem‐, and decision‐based as well as orientated against the real‐life situations of the pupils. Most teaching activities have been integrated in some project‐work technique, where the methods used typically have been tools in an empirical field strategy which aims at giving pupils a greater understanding of their own situation as consumers. A teachers' manual based on the research results will be published in all official EEC‐languages and in all

ISSN:0309-3891    

DOI:10.1111/j.1470-6431.1985.tb00436.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

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Two questions formed the structure for examining the formal communication among researchers using the Journal of Consumer Studies and Home Economics (JCSHE) The first question pertained to the interrelationship between the literature published and cited in JCSHE. The second asked what impact the literature published in JCSHE had on authors publishing in other journals. By performing Bradford analysis using the 1,160 journal references cited by authors of 210 articles in the first seven volumes of JCSHE, 26 core journals were identified. JCSHE was ranked second because it was cited 54 times in 37 articles by 29 authors. Through citation analysis 17 citing articles published in 12 journals other than JCSHE were found. Seven of these 17 citing articles were published in other home economics journals.

ISSN:0309-3891    

DOI:10.1111/j.1470-6431.1985.tb00437.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

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The role of the consumer in the history of economic theory is reviewed to derive a number of hypotheses regarding the conditions which might foster a sustained consumer movement. A survey of the consumer advocacy literature and consumer protection legislation of the 20th century supports the hypothesis that a sustained consumer movement did not manifest itself in the United States until the 1960s. Although the continued sustenance of this movement is open to debate, this article cites a number of attributes of the current state of the movement which suggest that it shall endure and flourish.

ISSN:0309-3891    

DOI:10.1111/j.1470-6431.1985.tb00438.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

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This paper outlines distance education systems in New Zealand with particular reference to the teaching of home economics to school students and to home economics teachers. Explanatory tables regarding organizational levels in New Zealand's schools are given.

ISSN:0309-3891    

DOI:10.1111/j.1470-6431.1985.tb00439.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

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The objectives of this paper are: (1) to contrast social and economic exchange assumptions, philosophies, reciprocities, valuation processes and problem‐solving behaviours for purposes of clarification of social and economic decision situations and as a step toward theoretical integration; (2) to present the position that exchange theory would be more useful in family research if economic and social exchange theories were more successfully integrated; (3) to request the continued co‐operation of family theorists in creating a theory which is useful in the interdependent social and economic domains of family life such as management; (4) to clarify the importance of this theoretical integration for more effective teaching and research in family resource managem

ISSN:0309-3891    

DOI:10.1111/j.1470-6431.1985.tb00440.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

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This study was designed to compare responses of fabric sales personnel to three types of product knowledge measures. These measures were: (1) written test items on a questionnaire; (2) oral items administered by a researcher posing as a consumer; and (3) projective items that require estimation of other clerks' knowledge. Fifty‐four clerks participated in the consumer interviews and 100 completed a questionnaire containing the written test and projective items. Forty clerks completed all three measures. In contrast to some of the findings regarding the measurement of attitudes, estimation of other people's knowledge was not found to be a useful indicator of the estimator's own knowledge. Furthermore, the consumer interview and written test methods were found to produce similar, but not completely interchangeable, results. A major implication of these findings is that one should consider the objectives of the measurement process in selecting a method for measuring product knowledg

ISSN:0309-3891    

DOI:10.1111/j.1470-6431.1985.tb00441.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

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Samples of cotton, polyester and nylon fabrics were soiled by application of synthetic sebum and clay and then laundered at various combinations of hot, warm and cold wash and rinse water temperatures. The temperature of the rinse water did not affect the amount of soil removed from the fabrics. More soil was generally removed with hot wash water than with warm or cold water. The soil was more readily removed from the nylon than from the cotton or polyester fabrics. All wash/rinse treatments removed soil to a level that would probably be acceptable to most consumers.

ISSN:0309-3891    

DOI:10.1111/j.1470-6431.1985.tb00442.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

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The attribution concept ‘locus of control’, that is who has control over a situation, has been used in experimental studies. However, this concept seems appropriate to include in survey research. This paper focusses on the effect that locus of control had on the responses of university students (n = 273) and campus recruiters (n = 269) in the United States to Likert statements regarding career appearance. The two questions addressed in this paper are: (1) Did locus of control affect the pattern of responses of the two groups? and (2) Did their response patterns differ according to selected demographic characteristics? Significant differences totally supported the idea that locus of control influenced responses of the two groups. The pattern of responses also differed according to selected background characteristics of age, familial social class and current occupational focus (i.e. student and recruiter). However, two significant differences in student and recruiter response patterns occurred when age and social class subsamples of the two groups were drawn. Perhaps, in sample selection, researchers should consider either social roles, situations in which roles transpire, or b

ISSN:0309-3891    

DOI:10.1111/j.1470-6431.1985.tb00443.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

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This exploratory study investigated the status of textile marketing in the United States by (a) examining the textile industry's use of effective marketing techniques, and (b) identifying common problems and needed improvements in textile marketing. The procedure followed these steps: (a) effective marketing techniques were identified, (b) interviews were conducted with nine textile executives and four individuals representing the United States textile industry at large, and (c) the respondents' statements about textile marketing practices were analysed for evidence of effective marketing techniques, common textile marketing problems and needed inprovements in textile marketing.The results indicated that only five of the thirteen respondents described textile firms that were using effective marketing techniques, but some textile firms were using effective marketing techniques and this should be an incentive for other textile firms. Several common problems and needed improvements in textile marketing were also identified. Because of the small sample size, the open‐ended questions, and the subjective analysis of the respondents' statements, this study must be regarded as exploratory. However, representative statements from the respondents are presented and these statements are informative about textile marketing practice

ISSN:0309-3891    

DOI:10.1111/j.1470-6431.1985.tb00444.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0309-3891    

DOI:10.1111/j.1470-6431.1985.tb00445.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1985

数据来源: WILEY