Konsument wobec wyzwań współczesnych megatrendów
Consumer in the Face of Challenges of the Contemporary Megatrends

Summary/Abstract: An aim of considerations is to present the contemporary economic, socio-cultural and technological megatrends in the perspective of changes which they cause in consumption. A particular attention is paid to the process of consumption servicisation, homebanking, globalisation, information revolution and virtualisation of consumption as well as the changes in the system of postmodernist values affecting behaviours in the area of consumption. Exemplification of the considerations will be surveys carried out under direction of the author concerning consumers’ behaviours influenced by the contemporary megatrends, implemented by the method of diagnostic survey with the use of a questionnaire among students of Wroclaw taken by quotas from the University of Wroclaw, the Wroclaw University of Technology and the University of Physical Education in 2013 as well as among consumers from the Lower Silesia in 2014 in various age intervals. The surveys were aimed at description of the impact of phenomena taking place with the definite megatrends on consumers’ behaviours as well as description of the consumers’ attitude towards the contemporary megatrends as the determinants of social transformations. The article is of the research nature.

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