Category Archives: Business ethics

A Tale of Two (Ad) Campaigns

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For a while, the mega-global corporation, Unilever — owner of Dove beauty products — spoke thoughtfully to the world’s women. The 13-year-long “Real Beauty” campaign that began in the early ’90s aimed to “change the conversation” about gender by presenting women of many colors, sizes, and body shapes in its ads

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Social Change: One Petition at a Time?

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As a high school student, I remember the excitement of going door-to-door to solicit signatures on petitions of various sorts. Adding one’s name to a list of other names on a single piece of paper may not seem consequential.  But when that sheet joins hundreds or thousands of others, suddenly

Amazon, Boycotts, Business ethics, Current Issues, Feminism, Gay marriage, Language politics, Latino/as, Linguistic Anthropology, Naming, Online petitions, Politics of representation, Sexism, Social justice Read more