Friday, April 17, 2009
Junior Theme
I have my question which is Why does the media manipulate Americans into over consuming? I think that this is pretty much my final question. I have the person that I am interviewing, which is Dr. Brian Winsink. He is a professor at Cornell and is the author of Mindless Eating and he also teaches courses on Consumer behavior and has lots of other great achievements in his lifetime. I am excited to interview him. I am still working on my thesis and Intro paragraph. I am not quite sure what my answer to my question is, and I think that it is throwing me off that I know that it might change while writing this paper. If anyone has any ideas for how to go about writing my thesis please help.
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1)Don't worry about your thesis statement changing. That is often a good thing.
2)Next, get all of your research sources into Noodle Tools and annotate them. That will help you sort out reasons for over consumption in America.
3) That will naturally lead to a mapping of ideas.
4) That will naturally lead to construction of a preliminary thesis.
5) Try these articles found in ProQuest:
Taste: The Indulgence Police --- You are prosperous and you buy stuff you want; How dare you
By Daniel Akst. Wall Street Journal Oct 29, 1999. p. W.17
"We want what we cannot afford"
Juliet Schor. Boston Globe. Boston, Mass.: May 17, 1998
more historical perspectives:
The Anxieties of Affluence: Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939-1979
Michael Kammen. History. Washington: Spring 2004. Vol. 32, Iss. 3; p. 93
for more recent items:
The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Great Britain since 1950;
Joy Parr. The Journal of Economic History. Atlanta: Dec 2007. Vol. 67, Iss. 4; p. 1085
Also, how do credit cards figure into consumer behavior?
Also, look into Expanded Academic Index. Do an advanced search for
keyword --consumer behavior
publication title --Journal of Advertising Research
see me if you need help with this!
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