Jered Chapman
Prof Riley
MG-101 Chap 3&4 assignment
9/10/13

Bad Consumer Habits, Who’s really to Blame?

While researching for this paper I ran across a great quote that simplifies the personal responsibility part of the equation.
“Personal responsibility is the willingness to both accept the importance of standards that society establishes for individual behavior and to make strenuous personal efforts to live by those standards. But personal responsibility also means that when individuals fail to meet expected standards, they do not look around for some factor outside themselves to blame. The demise of personal responsibility occurs when individuals blame their family, their peers, their economic circumstances, or their society for their own failure to meet standards. The three areas of personal decision making in which the nation’s youth and young adults most need to learn and practice personal responsibility are education, sexual behavior and marriage, and work.” (Haskins)
After researching different publications on the web, I’ve come realize that there’s a whole lot more to consumer behavior than I previously thought or even expected. First of all your companies product has to pass regulation boards put in place by our government to make sure that the products that are being sold aren’t harmful to the human being, or planet. The agency is called the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA. “The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It consists of the Office of the Commissioner and four directorates overseeing the core functions of the agency: Medical Products and Tobacco, Foods and Veterinary Medicine, Global Regulatory Operations and Policy, and Operations.” (FDA.gov) There’s psychologist hired specifically by corporations and companies to figure out what influence consumers to buy