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Promoting Democracy in Algeria

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These psychological triggers are the motivators potentials which allow the individual to make decisions, all on the basis of previously submitted. Below are major triggers involved in the thought to decision-making processes, which leads to an action. Cultural, determined by the socio-cultural environment of the consumer. Status, determined by socioeconomic status; consumption is growing in general, to the extent that socioeconomic status rises. Affective, determined by the degree of acceptance or rejection of social or group by having or not a good.

Need, determined by the actual need for the conventional life of a product. Standardization or mass, as a product is owned by most of the people rises pressure so that even do not buy it. EFFECTS OF CONSUMERISM Global: Consumerism is damaging to the entire ecological balance that currently there are many problems related to the excessive consumption of natural resources becomes worldwide as well as that mostly production processes generate pollution. Regional: The preference of unnecessary or easily substitutable products of a population that are produced in another region helps to unbalance the balance of trade between the regions. Social: Often helps the poor distribution of wealth, since consumers are generally of a lower socio-economic level that the owners of the generating companies of products objects of consumerism. Family: drop into the consumerism we increase our expenses unnecessarily buying things that we could avoid or reduce as products whose advertising promises miracles, low-life products or substitute other natural products.

Staff: Various consumerist options are less healthy to those that are not. For example, make a juice of Orange at home instead of buying one packaging that besides contain preservative, comes with bottles that end up in the inorganic trash. Cultural: Cultural expressions as transmitters of sense and values are modified so that today the young man of the generation that is being formed, is prepared to consume and not to be a critical and independent person.