Consumerism Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 1. placement: Putting products into TV shows and movies where they will be seen
- 5. calling: Transfer good feelings, looks or ideas to the person for whom the product is intended
- 7. of living: Measures the equality and availability of necessities and comforts in society
- 11. Issues: Issues related to the way that humans damage the environment
- 12. Obsolescence: Marketing strategy in which manufacturers purposely design goods to wear out sooner
- 16. A movement advocating greater protection of the interests of consumers
- 17. appeal: Persuades through scientific benefits
- 19. An act of giving ones public approval or support to someone or something
- 20. development: Economic development that is conducted without depletion of natural resources
- 24. An act where people refuse to buy or participate in something as a form of protest
- 25. appeal: An attempt to move people to buying something by playing on their feelings
- 27. controls: Legislation that determines the minimum that can be paid for wages
- 28. obsolescence: Designing products to become less desirable in the near future.
Down
- 1. controls: Legal restrictions on how high or low a market may go
- 2. Identity: The common characteristics and values used to define a group
- 3. and Figures: Numbers, tables and graphs are used to support a claim
- 4. The process of developing, promoting and distributing products, or goods and services
- 6. The public promotion of a product or service
- 8. Uses people of authority or important to get people to buy their products
- 9. voting: Consumers are essentially voting for the goods and services that they want with dollars
- 10. folks appeal: Implies ordinary people to agree with that viewpoint or side
- 11. The action or fact of treating someone unfairly in order to benefit from their work
- 13. The study of how people seek to satisfy their needs and wants by making choices
- 14. wealth, success
- 15. Controls: Taxes or outright bans on cross-border capital movements
- 18. identity: The physical and psychological characteristics that distinguish you
- 21. Words of phrase, often an item of jargon
- 22. words: Using a more dramatic version of a word to make something sound better or worse
- 23. A system of moral principles
- 26. Forms of communication that provide news and entertainment