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Sustainable consumption & solidary economy: some concepts and contributions of Psychology

The article explores briefly the alienating, sustainable and solidarity consumption and give visibility to the proposed renewal of economic relations established in society, represented by the solidarity economy enterprises. Through the understanding of some authors and researchers verified that the contributions of psychology to the issue made based on the inquiry of consumption practices and their significant differences between social classes, the questioning of new models of economy and labor organizations in the perspective of the relations that take place between them and the emergence of interventions that help to make autonomous subjects who play these new proposals.

sustainable consumption; solidary economy; consumption and Psychology


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