International Journal of Social and Educational Innovation

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Authors: Madalina Iuga

There are many factors influencing a food product selection, even if the most known is health benefits. This study describes the effect size of nine factors such as health, mood, convenience, sensory quality, ingredients, price, energetic value, familiarity and ethical aspects. The most important aspect of each factor was also determinated. A questionnaire was applied on a sample of 95 persons aged between 16 and more than 60 years. The summary statistics and the correlation (r>0,2) were applied using Data Analysis pacgake. The results showed that health benefits and the ingredients have the greatest influence, while the convenience and the energetic value were considered as beeing less important in food choice. The well-being, the taste, the natural ingredients, the good price ratio, the low fat content, the eco-friendly package, the fact that the food product can be bought from shops near their house and people ate it before have a strong contribution in food selection. So, it is important to take all these factors into account when we talk about food education and food practices.

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Authors: Elena-Maria Emandi

Both society as a whole and each of its members have to be prepared for the changes caused by continuous evolvement of knowledge. Alongside with the traditional forms of education, distance education represents the chance people of all ages have to learn in order to have a better chance to adapt to the ever-changing society.

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Authors: Alexandru Trifu

The problem of the customers’ satisfaction is very usual in Economics literature, mainly in the Marketing field of analysis. In this paper we used a very common marketing tool: the questionnaire, in order to see and to conclude about the satisfaction of the clients of a tourism location, such as a hotel. We also try to introduce some Philosophical aspects, especially from Immanuel Kant’s ideas, regarding the knowledge and the possibilities of understanding the reality, passed through the mind’s filter, adding customers’ perceptions, a priori beliefs and other subjective traits. On the other hand, the use of the questionnaire is very sensitive, also from the Philosophical point of view, because we don’t know exactly how accurate are the answers, or if we questioned a significant sample of customers. At sum, including economic and philosophic aspects, the satisfaction of customers is obviously illustrated in the study.