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  • Understanding socially responsible consumer decisions 
    Simpson, Marla (San Francisco State University, 1999)
    Socially responsible consumer decision-making is examined within the framework of an interdisciplinary model of decision-making. The disparity between preferences reflected in survey responses and consumer actions ...
  • The commodification of dating : how technology formed a relationship with single American adults 
    Oberhauser, Katrina Maria (San Francisco State University, 2012)
    As a result of technological advances, romantic dating is increasingly becoming a commodity, where the promise of true love and marriage is bought and sold through online dating websites. This commodification allows ...
  • Building reuse and the land ethic 
    Strobel, Hillary Ann (San Francisco State University, 2011)
    This thesis is about applying the land ethic, which was developed by ecologist Aldo Leopold, to the practice of reusing buildings, in order to determine if this practice is social, environmentally, and economically ...
  • The state of zero waste 
    Schidlowski, Robin A. (San Francisco State University, 2011)
    This thesis describes San Francisco as a case study city shifting from a paradigm of Municipal Solid Waste Management to one of Zero Waste and Resource Management. It reviews the body of professional and academic literature ...
  • A comparative political economy of capitalist profit theory 
    Chang, Robin Koren (San Francisco State University, 2010)
    Three U.S. profit performance accounts covering World War II to the 1990s are examined to ascertain how each narrative -- Brenner's 2003 The Boom and the Bubble, Glyn's 2007 Capitalism Unleashed, and Harvey's 2005 New ...