The Early 1990s ‘Postmodernist’ Melodrama: Female Virtue in the Consumer Age

2007 ◽  
pp. 54-91
Author(s):  
Roberta Garrett
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Age

Interpreting Seventeenth-Century Probate Documents: John Carter, Master Carpenter in St Albans

2011 ◽  
pp. 66-83
Author(s):  
Jane Harris ◽  
Pat Howe
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Social Standing ◽  
Close Proximity ◽  
Market Town ◽  
Consumer Age

This is a study of a successful seventeenth-century carpenter in St Albans, John Carter, using probate and other documents, assisted by a large-scale computer database of St Albans residents of the period. Sections of the article cover his family, his work and his house and its contents, which have been reconstructed from his probate inventory and from knowledge of the structure of other local houses of the period. Carter's social standing is discussed, both in its local context and in relation to previous probate inventory analyses. This micro-study sheds unusual light upon aspects of the life of a 'middling sort' of person, living in a thriving market town in close proximity to London, at the beginning of the consumer age.

Consumer age role norms, then and now

2000 ◽  
Vol 17 (10) ◽  
pp. 891-909 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela L. Alreck
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Age ◽  
Role Norms

scholarly journals Factores determinantes del aumento en el consumo de hortalizas frescas por habitantes de la región Caribe de Colombia

2019 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
María Martínez Reina
Keyword(s):  
Inverse Relationship ◽  
Econometric Model ◽  
Vegetable Consumption ◽  
Contingent Valuation Method ◽  
Caribbean Region ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Valuation Method ◽  
Fresh Vegetables ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Consumer Age

The aim of this study was to establish elements to understand the consumers reasons to increase the quantities of fresh vegetables consumed in the Caribbean Region of Colombia. With information from 308 surveys applied randomly in seven cities of the Caribbean Region and using a structured survey that included variables such as age, family composition, prices, income, a Logit econometric model was formulated. Furthermore, with the contingent valuation method, parameters were estimated using maximum likelihood; moreover, the reasons that explain the possibility that families increase vegetable consumption were identified. Results allow us to appreciate first that 53 % of the surveyed respondents would be willing to increase consumption. The variable that explains mostly an increase in consumption is scholarship with a positive value of 0.7667 with a direct relationship, with a significance of 0.005, i.e. with a higher the level of education, the probability of increasing consumption is also higher, presumably because the consumer has more information about the properties and advantages that vegetables have for health. These decisions are also influenced by vegetable prices and consumer age, but in an inverse relationship, i.e. at a higher price and age, less possibility of increasing consumption was observed. On the other hand, variables such as number of family members have a direct influence on decisions to increase vegetable consumption.

scholarly journals Sensory Consumer and Descriptive Analysis of Steaks from Beef Animals Selected from Tough and Tender Animal Genotypes: Genetic Meat Quality Traits Can Be Detected by Consumers

Foods ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 1911
Author(s):  
Maurice G. O’Sullivan ◽  
Ciara M. O’Neill ◽  
Stephen Conroy ◽  
Michelle J. Judge ◽  
Emily C. Crofton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Meat Tenderness ◽  
Genetic Merit ◽  
Age Cohorts ◽  
Overall Acceptability ◽  
Consumer Study ◽  
Age Cohort ◽  
Affective Analysis ◽  
Consumer Age ◽  
Sensory Acuity

The objective of the present study was to determine if animals who were genetically divergent in the predicted tenderness of their meat actually produced more tender meat, as well as what the implications were for other organoleptic properties of the meat. The parental average genetic merit for meat tenderness was used to locate 20 “Tough genotype” heifers and 17 “Tender genotype” heifers; M. longissimus thoracis steaks from all heifers were subjected to sensory affective analysis (140 consumers) and sensory profiling using two trained sensory panels. All sample steaks were treated identically regarding pre- and post-mortem handling, storage, cooking and presentation (i.e., randomised, blind coded). For the affective consumer study, eight steaks were sectioned from the same location of the striploin muscles from each of the heifers. In total, 108 steaks from the Tender genotype and 118 from the Tough genotype were tested in the consumer study to determine the preference or liking of these steaks for appearance, aroma, flavour, tenderness, juiciness and overall acceptability. The consumer study found that the Tender genotype scored higher (p < 0.0001) for liking of tenderness, juiciness, flavour and overall acceptability compared to the Tough genotype. Similar results were generally found for the separate consumer age cohorts (18–64 years) with lower sensory acuity in the 65+ age cohort. For the descriptive analysis, the Tender genotype scored numerically more tender, juicy and flavoursome, although the differences were only significant for one of the panels. The critical outcome from this study is that parental average genetic merit can be used to pre-select groups of animals for tenderness, which, in turn, can be detected by consumers.

Britain Since the Seventies: Politics and Society in the Consumer Age

2006 ◽  
Vol CXXI (493) ◽  
pp. 1196-1197
Author(s):  
W. D. Rubinstein
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Age
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