ABSTRACT

Social Marketing shows how marketing techniques can be used to social ends and tackle the immense challenges humankind faces. Social inequalities have driven popular revolts, from Black Lives Matter to Brexit, the climate is in crisis, and COVID-19 has highlighted power imbalances across the globe. In these turbulent times, this fourth edition will arm you with:

  • Fresh content on climate breakdown, inequality and diversity, public health and poverty
  • The critical capacity to analyse the origins, workings and future of our economic system
  • Contemporary case studies from around the world demonstrating how change happens
  • Reflective questions and critical thinking tasks to aid understanding

This popular introductory textbook has been fully updated to enable you to challenge the bad, champion the good and enact meaningful change. If you already have marketing know-how, then it will help you apply this in a health, social and ecological context. If you come from a social science, public health or ecological background, and have little knowledge of marketing, it will introduce you to its key principles and give you the chance to apply these ideas in familiar settings.

chapter Chapter 1|16 pages

Delivering global change

How social marketing can make a difference

chapter Chapter 3|19 pages

The shoulders of giants

Why theory matters

chapter Chapter 4|16 pages

Strategic planning

The social marketer's roadmap

chapter Chapter 5|19 pages

Research

The social marketer's satnav

chapter Chapter 6|17 pages

How social marketers communicate

The search for compelling content

chapter Chapter 7|18 pages

Critical marketing

Addressing the commercial determinants of ill-health and planetary harm

chapter Chapter 8|16 pages

Alternatives

In search of new wisdom

part |164 pages

Social marketing case studies from around the world

chapter Case study 3|9 pages

Acting on the climate crisis through the arts and culture

A social innovation journey at the city of Águeda

chapter Case study 5|6 pages

“What could masculinity be?”

Using participatory co-design to define and support healthier masculinities

chapter Case study 6|7 pages

“Standing Strong Together”

A culturally appropriate adaptation for a social and emotional well-being intervention in an Australian First Nations community

chapter Case study 9|9 pages

Evaluating real change in the real world

Creativity, connection and the unseen as felt evidence in aspiring communities

chapter Case study 10|17 pages

Leaf collective

Piloting a social marketing approach to remove eucalypt leaves from stormwater drains

chapter Case study 14|6 pages

The Baby Killer revisited

Regulating the marketing of breast milk substitutes

chapter Case study 15|9 pages

Healthy breakfasts in Armenia

chapter Case study 17|9 pages

Autism

Change your reactions