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Publication date: 9 April 2020

Gergely Szolnoki and Katharina Hauck

This study investigates organic wine consumption and analysed the motives, preferences and basic characteristics of German consumers of organic and non-organic wines.

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Purpose

This study investigates organic wine consumption and analysed the motives, preferences and basic characteristics of German consumers of organic and non-organic wines.

Design/methodology/approach

The comparative study is based on data from a representative survey conducted with 2,000 consumers in Germany. Two segments of wine drinkers were created according to their consumption of organic wine. Consumers of organic and non-organic wine were compared by analysing the differences in wine-related behavioural factors and socio-demographic variables.

Findings

The study reveals that consumers of organic wine differ significantly from those who do not drink organic wines. Socio-demographic factors (e.g. age and social class) and behavioural attributes (e.g. frequency of wine consumption and involvement with and preference for other organic products) demonstrate the differences between the two consumer groups.

Originality/value

To our knowledge, no findings exist to date regarding differences between consumers of organic wine and consumers of non-organic wine. Therefore, these results fill a research gap and provide valuable inputs both to the wine industry as well as to the scientific community dealing with organic food preferences.

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British Food Journal, vol. 122 no. 7
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0007-070X

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Publication date: 11 December 2007

Armin Nassehi, Irmhild Saake and Katharina Mayr

Before starting research in the field of ethics, a few common assumptions need to be cleared up. The first is so common that it needs very little space at all: Ethics is a

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Before starting research in the field of ethics, a few common assumptions need to be cleared up. The first is so common that it needs very little space at all: Ethics is a scientific discipline. This accurately describes its location and the problems it covers in a modern, functionally differentiated society. As a branch of philosophy and a normative science, its frame of reference is initially located in a world of possible competing reasons. The basic problem is that of trying to explain good reasons – and the horizon is the sayability of ethical sentences which, even when they reflect an ethical practice, open up a scientific horizon. Ethics is therefore a science – and like every science it can only solve scientific problems (see Luhmann, 2002, pp. 79–93). Practical problems are also the scientific problems of ethics – and that is not a deficiency, but rather a consequence of the basic structures of modern society. A modern society cut loose from political, economic, legal, scientific, artistic, educational and medical problems, on the one hand, allows these disconnected spheres to relate radically to each other, while on the other hand making them logically incompatible. A modern society could not exist any other way (see Luhmann, 1998, pp. 1–21; Nassehi, 2005a). This should first be understood before venturing into research on ethics.

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Bioethical Issues, Sociological Perspectives
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ISBN: 978-0-7623-1438-6

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