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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- References -- Chapter 1 -- A Layer Framework for a Precise, Consistent and Contributive Autoethnography -- Abstract -- Introduction -- My Own Autoethnography through the Layers -- Story of Self: Into the Scene (Ellis et al. 2011) -- Membership -- Other Data -- Reflexive Analytics -- Theory Lens -- Writing Autoethnography Using this Layered Approach -- Starting Out with Initial Data Collection -- Writing My First Concept Published Paper -- Writing My Second Paper -- Writing My Third Paper -- Summary, Conclusion and Recommendations -- An Autoethnographic Work Cycle -- A Layer Framework for Development of Precision, Consistency and Contribution -- References -- Chapter 2 -- Close Relatives and Autoethnography: An Intimate but Problematic Relationship -- Abstract -- Introduction -- On Autoethnography -- Issues Dealt with in Autoethnographies Involving Relatives -- Autoethnographers' Aims -- Personal Benefits -- Qualms Associated with Writing about Relatives -- Ways of Dealing with Relatives' Stories -- My Own Secrecy -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 3 -- Collaborative Autoethnography as a Pedagogical Method: Women Family Therapists Storying Their Latin American Heritages -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Autoethnographic Pedagogy -- Cultural Identity -- Collaborative Autoethnography -- Participant Researchers -- Recruitment -- Course Design and Procedures -- Evocative Autoethnographies and Their Meta-Revisions -- Trustworthiness -- Ethics -- Cultural Identity: Storying Our Latin American Heritages -- In the Hyphen by Kristen -- Ser Bilingue/Being Bilingual/the English Language Invasion by Anna -- Love by Susie -- My Inked Skin by Adriana -- A Woman's Daring Dreams by Eleany -- Becoming an Immigrant by Marcela -- Revising Our Pedagogical Autoethnography

Offering a novel view on morality in consumption, this book creatively examines how the seven deadly sins - pride, greed, lust, gluttony, envy, wrath, and sloth - are embodied in contemporary consumer society. Each of the seven chapters summarizes previous literature of the sins across disciplinary boundaries, and explores how consumption is likely to change in the future

Purpose
– This paper aims to show how social needs – the need for integration and need for distinctiveness – guide Finnish young adults' mundane consumption behaviors.


Design/methodology/approach
– The study draws on literature on the fundamental importance of social needs for people's social well-being and the healthy development of the young. The research uses qualitative methods, leaning on an interpretive approach that regards social needs as subjectively experienced and socially constructed phenomena. The empirical data were sourced from 56 Finnish university students' narratives on their daily consumption behaviors.


Findings
– The findings present five categories: "Socializing through consumption", "Consuming to affiliate", "Uniqueness through consumption", "Consuming to show off" and "Obedient consumption", which are further linked to social needs.


Social implications
– The study opens up the ways social needs are connected to consumption behaviors, for example showing how quotidian consumption objects, such as branded clothes, may be used to satisfy social needs in a way that enables young adults to make independent and distinctive consumption choices. On the other hand, in regard to young consumers' psychological and social well-being, the study finds that striving to satisfy social needs could also lead to destructive behaviors, such as alcohol consumption.


Originality/value
– The current research highlights the unavoidable importance of social needs in young adults' mundane consumption and how they strive to satisfy them. Thereby, it yields implications for social well-being by shedding light on the pressures and possibilities faced by young adults in their everyday life.

AbstractIn this paper, we revise the concept of neolocalism by showing how companies that sex up rural places update and add novel nuances to neolocalist marketing. As the positive aspects drawn from tradition, stories and history are at the center of neolocalism, we aim to highlight how the usually negatively perceived images of the rural may be turned into something positive, trendy, desirable, and eventually sexy in the marketing of rural areas and businesses. The data of this study consists of nine company interviews and four consumer focus groups (n = 17). Our findings show how three features—namely, the hybridization of rural and urban, generational experience of millennials, and minimalist visualization—combined construct ideas for new image creation for rural areas. The concept of sexing up places ushers in new possibilities for rural actors and regions by reducing the distinction between rural and urban via visual imagery that is a particularly good match for the generational experience of the millennials. In this way, the study offers a novel way to tackle the challenges faced by rural areas, such as depopulation and image loss.