Download or read book The Semiotics of Consumption written by Morris B. Holbrook and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-01-02 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Semiotics of Consumption: Interpreting Symbolic Consumer Behavior in Popular Culture and Works of Art (Approaches to Semiotics).

Download or read book Symbolic consumer behavior proceedings of the Conference on Consumer Esthetics and Symbolic Consumption written by Elizabeth C. Hirschman and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Symbolic Consumer Behavior written by Elizabeth Hirschman and published by Assn for Consumer Research. This book was released on 1980 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Symbolic use of brands written by Florian Meisel and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008-10-07 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Business economics - Offline Marketing and Online Marketing, grade: 2, University of Vienna (Marketing ), course: Special Topics in Fashion and Brand Marketing, language: English, abstract: Increasingly, brands are seen as important in creating individual identity, a sense of achievement and individuality for consumers. It is clear that positioning a brand trough a clear and consistent image building campaign is a cornerstone of brand marketing. It is also evident that certain brand dimensions and associations lead to increased marketplace recognition and economic success for brand owners, as a result the value consumers place on them. Marketers spend millions of dollars each year to identify well defined, strong brand images and to support them. A company’s economic superiority is frequently implied by the strength of its brand name giving it the ability to differentiate itself and improve its competitiveness. (Nykiel, 1997) Park, Jaworski and MacInnis (1986) noted that consumer needs could be classified in functional or symbolic needs. The functional needs are related to specific and practical consumption problems, whereas symbolic needs are related to self image and social identification. (Subodh Bhat, 1998) Therefore they mentioned that all brand should have a “brand concept”, which is an overall abstract meaning that identifies a brand. Also, there are different types of motivations among each individual, and these motivations drives their needs either to be functional or symbolic in nature. Thus, functional needs of consumers could be exploited with a functional brand, one positioned with a functional brand concept. A brand could be also positioned as a “symbolic” brand for consumers who whish to enhance their self image or their social image. (Park, 1991)

Download or read book Culture and Consumption written by Grant David McCracken and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1990-11-22 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book compiles and integrates highly innovative work aimed at bridging the fields of anthropology and consumer behavior." —Journal of Consumer Affairs " . . . fascinating . . . ambitious and interesting . . . " —Canadian Advertising Foundation Newsletter " . . . an anthropological dig into consumerism brimming with original thought . . . " —The Globe and Mail "Grant McCracken has written a provocative book that puts consumerism in its place in Western society—at the centre." —Report on Business Magazine " . . . a stimulating addition to knowledge and theory about the interrelationship of culture and consumption." —Choice "[McCracken's] synthesis of anthropological and consumer studies material will give historians new ideas and methods to integrate into their thinking." —Maryland Historian "The book offers a fresh and much needed cultural interpretation of consumption." —Journal of Consumer Policy "The volume will help balance the prevailing cognitive and social psychological cast of consumer research and should stimulate more comprehensive investigation into consumer behavior." —Journal of Marketing Research " . . . broad scope, enthusiasm and imagination . . . a significant contribution to the literature on consumption history, consumer behavior, and American material culture." —Winterhur Portfolio "For this is a superb book, a definitive exploration of its subject that makes use of the full range of available literature." —American Journal of Sociology "McCracken's book is a fine synthesis of a new current of thought that strives to create an interdisciplinary social science of consumption behaviors, a current to which folklorists have much to contribute." —Journal of American Folklore This provocative book takes a refreshing new view of the culture of consumption. McCracken examines the interplay of culture and consumer behavior from the anthropologist's point of view and provides new insights into the way we view ourselves and our society.

Download or read book Brands Consumers Symbols and Research written by Sidney J. Levy and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 1999-08-11 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 54 collected works in this volume provide an opportunity for the reader to determine whether Sidney′s work, individually and/or collectively, qualify as a masterpiece. For me, Sidney has created more individual pieces of his work that merit this status than any other marketing scholar I know. Collectively, the work in this volume is a masterpiece of insight into the social enterprise that is marketing. Again, I don′t know anyone whose career-long program of thought is so extraordinarily rich in imagination and practical value. He challenges, provokes, excites, soothes, and supports us with one or another of his writings. —from the foreword by Gerald Zaltman, Harvard Business School For the first time, the writings of marketing legend Sidney J. are available in this comprehensive collection of significant scholarly essays and studies in the field of marketing. And what a compendium this is! Dennis Rook, a former student of Sidney J. Levy, has compiled the work of this prolific, internationally-recognized and award-winning writer whose ideas began to influence marketing executives in the late 1940s. His ideas continue to impact how we think about marketing′s role in management, how managers develop products and brands, how they understand their consumers, and how corporate and academic researchers investigate marketplace concerns. Brands, Consumers, Symbols, and Research is an exciting and definitive volume that should have a place on the bookshelves of every marketing professional, educator, and student around the globe!

Download or read book Qualitative Methods Part II Symbolic Consumer Behavior Or Consumption Symbolism written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Consumer Behavior written by Delbert I. Hawkins and published by . This book was released on 1995-02-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Symbolic Consumption in China written by Giana Mancuso Eckhardt and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Symbolic Interaction Theory and Its Application in Consumer Behavior written by Suvodip Sen and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Herbert Mead's work is the foundation of symbolic interaction theory. In contrast to the inherent meaning of objects or substances, themes and assumptions of symbolic meaning are produced by human interaction. The symbolic interaction theory and marketing-related features of consumer behavior are connected in this article. Cultural values give products meaning. We categories' them according to their gender, age, socioeconomic status, and ethnicity. In this essay, we examine the symbolic import of consumer products and consumption as a whole. We also show how some consumption patterns might develop significant significance. The culture in which something is used gives it a symbolic meaning. People who utilize products also give them a personal significance. This writing also examines the interaction between these two dimensions to produce the symbolic properties of icon, role-acquiring, connected, and expressive.

Download or read book Symbolic Consumer Behaviour written by Elizabeth C. Hirschman and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Handbook of Culture and Consumer Behavior written by Sharon Ng and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research on the influence of culture on consumer decision-making and consumption behavior has witnessed tremendous growth in the last decade. With increasing globalization, managers are becoming increasingly aware that operating in multiple markets is crucial for firms' survival and growth. As the world's growth engine shifts from Europe and North America to Asia and Latin America, it has become apparent that an inward-looking and domestic focus strategy will not be sustainable in the long run. And success in foreign markets requires marketers to understand not just what consumers in these markets need but also how they think, behave, consume, and purchase. Numerous studies have documented cultural differences in values and beliefs, motivational orientations, emotions, self-regulation, and information-processing styles, and the effects of these cultural variations on consumer behavior such as brand evaluation, materialism, and impulsive consumption. In this volume, experts from a variety of disciplines and perspectives trace the historical development of culture research in consumer psychology and examine the theoretical underpinnings that account for these findings and the current state of the field. Collectively, the chapters provide a forum for researchers to engage in thoughtful debates and stimulating conversations and offer directions for future research.

Download or read book Contemporary Marketing and Consumer Behavior written by John F. Sherry and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 1995-05-02 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholarly and extensively footnoted, the book is meant to be used as a sourcebook for anthropological research. . . . The book′s primary audience should be marketing and anthropology researchers, and graduate students, faculty, and researchers. --P. G. Kishel in Choice "As a business person responsible for the development of advertising strategies and advertising campaigns, I was impressed with the contributors′ willingness and desire to apply anthropological principles to real world problems. John Sherry Jr.′s comment sums it up nicely, ′Anthropology is a practical discipline, anchoring the blue sky thinking it encourages firmly to the local ground it inhabits.′ We need to encourage blue sky thinking so we don′t repeatedly get the same answers to our inquiries. Anthropologists can help us with these issues. . . "This book gives me enormous hope that applied anthropology will help restore the tremendous value that can be gained through qualitative research techniques. Today in marketing and advertising, focus groups are grossly overused, misused, and underanalyzed. I was encouraged and excited about the authors′ discussions of good ethnographies and focus groups that, for example, instead of simply asking respondents whether or not EMF causes cancer, a far more creative and insightful exercise was performed with consumers, and then was intensely analyzed by anthropologists. All too often today, qualitative research is carelessly and quickly administered and the analysis consists of a 30-minute debriefing at the end of the last focus group. . . "In the last few years, the need for cross-cultural consumer understanding has grown rapidly. This phenomenon makes it imperative that not only must we fully understand the meanings of brands and products to our domestic consumers, but we must know which meanings are ′transportable′ to consumers in other cultures. John Sherry Jr.′s book suggests that anthropologists could and should have a major role in cross-cultural consumer understanding." --Patricia A. Cafferata, President and Chief Executive Officer, Young & Rubicam Chicago "John Sherry Jr. and his contributors bring ′marketplace anthropology′ out of the shadows and into the dazzling piazza of contemporary social thought. Wide-ranging, lively, and often witty, the sourcebook raises many intriguing questions about the trajectory of anthropology and social science in general for the 21st century. Though readers might not always agree with the approaches used, these chapters are pointed reminders of vast fields of anthropological neglect on subjects of huge importance for today′s world, yet inspirations for the work reach back to the foundations of modern anthropology, from Malinowski to W. Lloyd Warner. . . "This book makes a convincing case for the role of marketplace anthropology in basic research on humankind. While many anthropologists might approach this collection with some apprehensiveness, the editor does not shrink from the ethical issues of business anthropology. Applied anthropologists in many fields can benefit from the insights and ideas presented here. This book goes a long way toward replacing the pop-anthropology so rampant in corporate circles these days with substantive anthropological materials and sets of ideas on advertising, organizational behavior, buying and selling, profit-making, consumer relations, and much more." --J. Anthony Paredes, Florida State University "Anyone concerned with understanding the consumer will find John F. Sherry Jr.′s new book invaluable. In the past decade, the most important contributions to the meaning of products, brands, and advertising in consumers′ lives have come from anthropology. Sherry and the contributors to this volume have been in the forefront of that movement. The chapters in this volume, whether on shampoo, electric utilities, or life histories of brand behavior, capture the excitement and illumination of looking at marketing and advertising through the lens of anthropology." --Myra Stark, Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising "This book is long overdue; anthropologists as consumer researchers have been a powerful underground force for the past 15 years of innovative marketing. Major companies, as well as government and private institutions, have looked to anthropologists to help when other research has failed. John Sherry Jr. has collected outstanding anthropological practitioners in this volume, and they have written cutting-edge chapters on product symbolism, consumer culture, advertising efficacy, and international marketing. The power of this collection lies in the fresh insights to each of these themes and the ability to reframe old problems to reperceive what it means to live the life of a consumer as we approach the next century." --Steve Barnett, Managing Director, Global Business Network Containing original articles and empirical substance, Contemporary Marketing and Consumer Behavior responds to a growing demand for scholarship more tuned to the empirical and practical realities of consumer culture. Written by leading anthropologists who specialize in marketing and consumer research, it is intended as a sourcebook for readers interested in consumption and its managerial consequences. The topics and their treatments run a gamut of concerns including elements of the marketing mix (such as goods and services), advertising and promotion, relationship management, managerial intervention and development, class-and-gender-linked consumer behaviors, and the production of consumption. Anthropological perspectives and methods employed by the authors range from materialistic to semiotic and both qualitative and quantitative methods are employed. Contributors range across time, space, and topics in pursuit of understanding. The result is a multifaceted perspective of marketing and consumer behavior. Also, the remarks of eminent senior Fellows of the Association for Consumer Research, who have drawn upon anthropology to make their own seminal contributions to a number of disciplines, punctuate this exceptional volume. A remarkable and extraordinary text, Contemporary Marketing and Consumer Behavior is ideal for scholars, students and professionals in marketing, cultural studies, gender studies, psychology, sociology, anthropology, and communication.

Download or read book Symbolic Behavior written by Ana Paula Celso de Miranda and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Objects of consumption and their meanings diverge amongst societies according to the social context. Thus, the meanings expressed by consumers reflect their cultural point of view. The consumption behavior can be explained by the need of expressing these meanings, by the ownership of products that communicate to society how the individual is self-perceived while a member of its social group. This paper tries to establish the symbolic meaning, in the social context, of self-concept and consumption behavior. The symbolic consumption is seen as form of mediating self-concept and consumption behavior. Symbols impels the purchase attitude for a product, according to expressed social meanings, where the individual interacts and how he/she self-perceives, or even wants to be perceived. Research questions for futures studies are discussed with base in the theoretical background presented for the proposed theme.

Download or read book Cross cultural Consumer Behavior in Regard to Symbolic Product Value written by Wenjing Zhang and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Symbolic Dimension of Consumer Attitudes written by Simon Thériault and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: