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The story of the statue not looking right demonstrates the difference between
explicit and implicit attitudes
refers to the ability of our unconscious to find patterns in situations and behavior based on very narrow slices of experience
"thin-slicing"
The more paradigms we use...
the more complete our understanding
Having 3 paradigms encompassed in the real world is a(n)
triangulation
Paradigms help...
understand consumer behavior
Understanding consumer behavior enables people to
create marketing strategies and solve real world problems
3 paradigms
Ethnography, CCT, Socialization
What does the Consumer Culture Theory involve?
Social Control, Norms, Cultural Values
The reason we occupy more niches-from tundra to the tropics, the forest to the desert, the mountains to the plains-than any other species
Culture
How do we know how to survive in each climate?
We pass on behaviors and artifacts that help us adapt
Anthropologists identify four aspects of culture
1.culture is manifested in behaviors-customs-that are patterned and shared.
2. cultural behaviors are learned from society
3. cultural behaviors are arranged into a complex whole or a web of signification
4. culture consists of shared ideas
2 things that are reflections of shared ideas in cultures
behaviors and artifacts
Who wrote The Interpretation of Cultures?
Clifford Geertz
Said "We are the product of our product" and believed in dialectical, semantic, and coolhunting
Jean-Paul Sartre
In order to help us better understand the multiple ways that culture is important for marketing and consumer research, we study:
1. Cultural Myths
2. Cultural Icons
3. Cultural rituals
4. Cultural values
stories containing symbolic elements that express shared emotions and cultural values
Myths
Sam Walton, Harley Davidson, Christmas and the Chinese Moon Cake tradition are all examples of:
Myths
What important functions in culture do myths serve?
They emphasize how things are interconnected;
Maintain social order by authorizing a social code;
Provide psychological models for individual behavior and identity
exemplary symbols that people accept as a shorthand to represent important ideas.
Icons
When the brand story resonates w/cultural values over a long period of time, the brand may become...
iconic
Levi jeans, Harley Davidson, Hershey's chocolate, Coke, James Dean, and Mustang are examples of
Icons
results from good story telling
Brand Meaning
What makes a brand more apt to become successful?
When the story resonates w/the mood of the culture
Brand managers should study...
the culture that they are operating in
Consist of behaviors that occur in a relatively fixed sequence and that tend to be repeated periodically
Cultural Rituals
Types of rituals related to consumption (examples)
Thanksgiving - America
Day of the Dead - Mexico
Airwalk is an example of:
Possession Rituals
Shaving is an example of:
Grooming Rituals
Recycling is an example of
Divestment Rituals
Gift-giving is an example of:
Exchange Rituals
shared ideas that a group of people believe are good and desired
cultural values
Cultural values are deeply historical, passed on from generation to generation, and ultimately are linked to...
survival/adaptation
shared beliefs about how people should behavior (e.g. hardworking)
Instrumental values
shared desirable end states or life goals (e.g., happiness)
Terminal Values
In shoes, padding and support & weight yield:
feeling stronger
In shoes, aesthetic design yields:
social integration (sign value)
value-expressive consumption
sign value
Feeling stronger and yield...
.an active lifestyle and stress management
social integration can yield...
developing social networks
active lifestyle, stress management, and developing social networks eventually yield:
positive self-esteem, confidence, achievement, and happiness
Anthropologists begin with the _______ and then....
Object
Work toward constructing the culture
Consumer researchers may begin with ________ and then....
Values
Work toward the object
Promotional strategies should talk about ______, not _____
Values
Attributes
a shared expectation of behavior that connotes what is considered culturally desirable and appropriate
norm
norms are similar to rules in being prescriptive, although often they are...
taken for granted or unreflected (presupporitional)
actual behavior may differ from what is considered normative and therefore is labeled
deviant
If the actual behavior is "deviant," it means that the concept is:
ultimately tied up in issues of social control, creativity, and social order
3 types of norms
Folkways
Mores
Taboos
informal rules (key for consumer behavior and marketing)
Folkways
more formal laws
Mores
unthinkable behavior
taboos
Society is a historical product that developed by
trial and error
individuals continually adjusted their behavior to
better adapt to the environment
way of behaving become...
repeated and produce habits (in individuals) and customs (in groups)
Habits that become commonly accepted ways of doing things
folkways
informal rules that are so taken for granted it is difficult to discover all of them
informal rules
folkways tend to be...
unreflected and prediscursive
folkways take on _______ or work together to produce codes
meaning in systems
Who did social distance research?
E.T. Hall
a perspective in which one learns how to "fit in" or how to participate in the flow of life which is less related to knowledge and more related to being socialized to and enacting the appropriate...
Code
Learning folkways is not learning in a cognitive perspective but from ______
experience
______ to folkways may be used for social integration
Conformity
_____ may be used for distinction thus become the fuel for fashion innovations...
deviations
in the last two decades, codes have ______ creating a wide diversity of roles and new social movements
Fragmented
the two sides of the fragmentation of codes:
1. has created new opportunities by expanding what one can be

2. has made identity more difficult
In the past, identity was closely linked to...
occupation, family background, and social class
Identity is now linked to...
affiliations, leisure activity, cultural heritage, sexual orientation, fashion, body adornment, use of brands, smart phones, Facebook, MySpace, blog, music, and so on.
Identity is increasingly
cosmopolitan
Consumer segments have
Fragmented
How do we discover codes?
Ethnography
participant observation
enthnography
ethnography assumes that...
experience is more persuasive than knowledge
Only after participating in the field and letting the socialization process grip us can we begin to gain
empathy
"Walk a Mile in my Shoes" written by...explains ethnography
Elvis Presley
Whether we are studying tattoos, soccer fans or country dancing, the key is
empathy
the process of internalizing the values and normas of a particular culture
Socialization
Socialization allows us to develop ____ or _____ but it is also a form of control.
"self" or "identity"
Socialization is...
learning how to fit in when you don't realize that you are learning.
When one is young, socialization is called
primary
Later in life, socialization is more cognitive and called
secondary
social institutions or roles that contribute to the socialization process
agents of socialization
Examples of Agents of Socialization
individuals, organizations, or ideas (parents, religion, school, political systems, peer/reference groups, the workplace, and marketing)
Since the 1950s, the ______ has become a very important agent
Mass Media
Mass media examples
TV, facebook, myspace, www, video games
help to define chapters in socialization
rites of passage
represented and supported, in part, with...
products and brands
we all "anticipate" role changes and begin to prepare before we actually assume the role--this is known as
anticipatory socialization
if a role change is expected, the social actor will begin to anticipate the _____ associated w/that new role
duties and expectations
helps to decrease the stress involved with significant role changes such as rites of passage
Anticipatory Socialization
Famous for the "looking-glass self"
C.H. Cooley
Cooley assumed that people...
will select behavior resulting in a positive self-feeling, over time, the individual will conform, contributing to social order
Who was interested in how we learn to take the role of the other?
G. H. Mead
Meade believed that...
taking the role of the other (i.e. empathy) was developmental
Stages of taking the role of the other:
preparatory stage
play stage
game stage
Mead often discussed this process as the development of
"self"
Suggested that society is fragmented, demanding that individuals develop many "selves"
I. Goffman
Goffman believed that...
people learn how to manage their appearance and present the most appropriate self given the social context
Famous for "impression management" and "dramaturgy"
Goffman
Cooley, Mead, and Goffman are all trying to explain...
intersubjectivity (social order)
If we understand social order, we understand
social control
informal, close-knit
small, face-to-face
value-expressive
influence inner-directed consumption
feel emancipating
cooley and mead
Primary Groups
formal, more superficial
large, bureaucratic,
express affiliation;
influence outer-directed consumption
groups may feel constraining
goffman
Secondary Groups
Member(s) of Primary Groups
Cooley and Mead
Member(s) of Secondary Groups
Goffman
examples of inner-directed consumption
products and brands that represent values such as a tattoo
examples of influence out-directed consumption
dresscode at work or appropriate hairstyle
essentially means a well disciplined way of looking at and evaluating others
"Gaze"
The "Gaze" is a popular concept in
Sociology
How do we "read" another person?
on the basis of products, brands, and their use
We needed to recognize subtle difference in tribal marks to
survive
Clothes and fashion show us...
nerd versus chic
Right or wrong, we make intferences about people on the basis of
their consumer behavior
Buttons first appeared in
Germany
Button became widespread with the rise of...
snug-fitting garments throughout Europe
Why do men have buttons on the right?
So they can unbutton their coats while drawing their swords?
Women have button on the left so...
it is easier for their maids to dress them.
Who were forbidden to use buttons in the 14th century?
Rising merchant class and peasants
Sumptuary Laws are an example of
Social Control
Men having buttons on the right and women on the left, and only upperclass can wear buttons are an example of:
Norms
Strict divisions between aristocracy and peasants are n ecessary to maintain social order is an example of
Cultural Values
the process of dividing a market into groups of similar consumers
Market Segmentation
Market Segmentation helps to answer the question:
Who is our customer?
Market Segmentation enables the firm to
select the most appropriate group or groups to serve
demo means
"people"
psyche means
"mind" or "spirit"
these variables are useful when describing populations; e.g. age, sex, ethnicity, socoioeconomic status, percent urban, etc.
Demographic variables
these variables are useful when describing the psychological structure of individuals; e.g., activities, interests, opinions, values, attitudes, life-style, etc.
Psychographic variables
Traditional Approaches to Segmentation
VALS
PRIZM NE
Brand Loyalty and degree of use
a long-standing traditional example of psychographic segmentation that follows a post hoc model
VALS
system in which consumers are asked a variety of questions about their lifestyles and then are grouped on the basis of the similarity of their responses
VALS
VALS stands for:
"Values and Lifestyles"
is a product of SRI Consulting Business Intelligence
VALS
Although developed in the 1970s, it has been redone and updated to enhance its ability to predict consumer behavior
VALS
The VALS Framework group consumers ______ by 3 _____ and _____ by ___________.
horizontally
primary motivations
vertically
high or low resources
Marketers can purchase VALS groups. How is this info used?
To select a consumer target for advertising or promotion
classifies every US neighborhood into one of 15 groups. Each of these groups is further divided into 3 to 6 segments, with a total of ___ distinct segments in the system
PRIZM NE
PRIZM NE stands for
Potential Rankings Index of Zip Markets - New Evolution
Based on the assumption that consumers that live in the same neighborhood will have similar lifestyles
PRIZM NE
PRIZM NE's goal is to create classifications of _____, ____, ____ _______ where consumers live and shop.
actual
addressable
mappable neighborhoods
Each group and segment in PRIZM NE is based on
zip codes, demographic info from the US Census, and info on product use, media use, and lifestyle preferences
a collection of young, mobile urbanites; respresents the nation's most liberal lifestyles. Quick to check out the latest movie, nightclub, laptop and microbrews
Bohemian Mix
Affordable housing, entry-level jobs and thiving singles scene...young, single and working-class, pursue active lifestyles amid sprawling apartment complexes, bars, convenience stores and laundromats
Boomtown Singles
To find brand loyalty and degree of use, one must telescope-in on the
core consumer
4 questions one must ask to find brand loyalty
Who purchases the product class?
Who purchases the brand?
Who is brand loyal?
Who is the heavy user?
A marketing rule of thumb that 20% of purchasers account for 80% of sales
80/20 Rule
Core is like a
magnet, attracting other consumers
Core consumers are
the most involved consumers
Core consumers may be sensitive to
changes in product design or marketing strategy
a single strategy designed for one segment of consumers
concentrated
a different strategy for each consumer segment
Differentiated
In the case of Ariwalk, the core rider was exposed to
strategies designed for other segments, believed brand was selling out, so they switched to Vans
Segments were used to build
clusters
Retail occurs
geographically
No store's customer base is comprised entirely of
a single segment
How were clustered consumers, in terms of segments, brought to life?
In store observations
In store interviews
Customer focus groups
Projective deep interviews
In-home studies of consumption lifestyles
play an important role in the marketing paradigm
Perceptions
important to both the way that theorists articulate the marketing paradigm and the practice of marketing
framing
Segmentation, again, involves a process of
grouping
Be careful when...
the product (cigarettes) or service (on-line dating) could be dangerous to the consumer; and
the segment of consumers targeted is vulnerable (in the sense that they may lack resources or have not yet developed critical capacities)
Example of an "unethical" marketing plan
Dakota Cigarettes
Consumers are becoming more
complex
The complexity of consumers is leading to the ______ of markets
fragmentation
Segmentation, due to complexity, is becoming
more difficult
shared ideas that a group of people believe are good and desired
cultural values
shared beliefs about how people should behave
instrumental values
shared desirable end states or life goals
terminal values
3 theorists of socialization
Cooley, Mead, and Goffman
3 theories of socialization
Reference group influence, social sanctions, the gaze
an idea or concept
segmentation
Why do we use multiple paradigms to study consumer behavior?
Because the more paradigms we use, the more complete our understanding and b/c consumer behavior is multifaceted
Which paradigm focuses on what the consumer is thinking?
cognitive
Which paradigm focus on empathetic understanding through participant observation?
behavioral
The tipping point is the biography of an idea and that idea is
ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do
every paradigm consists of
theories, aims, and methods
What does Gladwell mean by the concept of Contagiousness?
this is an unexpected property of all kinds of things from flu to fashion to yawning
What links cognitive systems to the environment?
attention
The behaviorist argues that
researchers should not use cognition for scientific explanations
the quality of "stickiness" essentially means
is the message so memorable it can spur someone to action
The behavioral paradigm emphasizes all of the following except which one?
attitude measurement should be used to predict consumer behavior
Who is the father of operant conditioning?
Skinner
Who is the father of operant conditioning?
Skinner
Which is the best definition of ecological psychology?
the place, or situation, encodes proper behavior
What is the tipping point?
When something changes from additive to geometric
According to the behavioral paradigm, if we want to understand consumer behavior, we must study
the interplay between the environment and behavior and consumers in their place of consumption
What does the power of context (part II) emphasize?
Social groups, peer pressure, social norms
This is shared knowledge a bout the world that we are living in
Semantic
Which group has the power to persuade us when we are unconvinced of what we are hearing?
Salesmen
Seasame Street and Blue's Clues were used as examples of
the stickiness factor
memory consists of two key categories
types and structures
identity consists of
semantic and episodic meanings, social integration and distinction
Which paradigm focuses on what the consumer is thinking?
cognitive
Which paradigm focus on empathetic understanding through participant observation?
behavioral
The tipping point is the biography of an idea and that idea is
ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do
every paradigm consists of
theories, aims, and methods
What does Gladwell mean by the concept of Contagiousness?
this is an unexpected property of all kinds of things from flu to fashion to yawning
What links cognitive systems to the environment?
attention
The behaviorist argues that
researchers should not use cognition for scientific explanations
the quality of "stickiness" essentially means
is the message so memorable it can spur someone to action
The behavioral paradigm emphasizes all of the following except which one?
attitude measurement should be used to predict consumer behavior
Who is the father of operant conditioning?
Skinner