SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE CONSUMER BEHAVIOR IN THE STATE OF QATAR

Abstract

Every single consumption choice that consumers make has an impact on the society and on the environment. By choosing products that have a limited impact on the environment and the society consumers can help saving the environment and help in having a sustainable resources, thus bring the changes they want in the marketplace. The purpose of this research paper is to identify what people in Qatar include in the concept of responsible consumption, with regard to many choices, and which are the responsibilities they think they have as responsible consumers. A questioner was developed and distributed to different category of the society to measure their social responsible consumer behavior. A total of 129 respond has been collected. The paper has concluded that there is no relation between different consumer groups and their social consumer behavior. The consumers in Qatar do not have much awareness in that filed due to many reasons. Society wealth, lack of awareness from the government and the social responsible culture might be some of reasons for that problem.