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Softgood Consumer Behavior
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Undergraduate 2
02/16/2011

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Style
Definition
A particular combination of attributes from others in its category
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Fashion Process
Definition
Social diffusion by which a new style is adopted by a group or groups of consumers
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Fashion
Definition
Style that is accepted by a large group of people at a given time
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Trend
Definition
A general direction or movement as a style is beginning to be accepted
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Fad
Definition
A short-lived fashion that becomes popular quickly and disappears just as fast
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Classic
Definition
Acceptable in good taste anytime, anyplace
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Taste
Definition
Refers to what is attractive or appropriate for any given occasion or person
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Good Taste
Definition
Being sensitive to aesthetically pleaseing and appropriate for situation and individual
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National Brand
Definition

Manufacturer and designer names that are well advertised

EX: Levi, Nike, Addias, Coach, Nine West

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Privete Brand
Definition

Those sold by only one store

EX: Tommy Hilfiger, Martha Stewart, Gianni, INC, Kouture by Kimora

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Store Brand
Definition

Sold only in one store that carry the store name

EX: Chico's, Old Navy

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Culture
Definition
the accumulation of shared meanings, rituals, norms, traditions
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Consumer's Culture
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Determines the priorities the consumers attaches to activities and products
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Material Culture
Definition

Help us understand how people live and examine ideas and beliefs

EX: clothing, furnture,dress, tools

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Nonmaterial Culture
Definition
Patterns of thoughts, feelings, behaviors, religious beliefs and values
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Power Distance
Definition

how do interpersonal relationships form when there are differences in power?

EX: student/teacher, Boss/employee

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Uncertainty Avoidance
Definition

How much do people feel threatened by ambiguous situations and thereforehave institutions to help avoid uncertainty

EX: Organized religion, rules, laws, regulations, routines

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Masculinity
Definition
Assertiveness, accumulation of wealth and materalism, self-centered and Individual success
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Femininity
Definition
Quality of life, relationships and family
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Individualism
Definition
To what extent is the welfare of the group vs. individual valued?
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Collectivist
Definition
Subordinate personal goals for the welfare of the group
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Individualist Cultures
Definition
Personal goals are more import
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Values
Definition
General standards of what is good and bad
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Norms
Definition
Rules dictating what is right and wrong
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Enacted Norms
Definition

Explicity decided on

EX: Green=Go,"No shoes, Not Shirt, No Service"

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Crescive Norms
Definition
Customs, Morals, Conventions
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Custom
Definition

Practice handed down from the past that is slow to change

EX: white wedding dress

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Mores
Definition

A custom with a strong moral overtone

EX: length of skirts, amount of cleavage

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Convention
Definition
Norms regarding the conduct of everyday life
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Myth
Definition
A story containing symbolic elements that represent the shared emotions and ideals of a culture
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Monomyth
Definition

A myth that is common to many cultures

EX: Superheros

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Ritual
Definition
A set of multiple, symbolic behavior that occur in a fixed sequence and that tend to be repeated periodically
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Ritual Artifacts
Definition
Items needed to perform rituals, such as wedding rice, birthday candles, diplomas, specialized food and beverages, trophies and plaques, greeting cards
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Grooming Rituals
Definition
sequences of behaviors that aid in the transition from the private self to the public self or back again
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Gift-Giving Rituals
Definition
Consumers procure the perfect object, meticulously remove the price tag and carefully wrap it, and deliver it ot the recipient
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Economic Exchange
Definition
The giver transfers an item of value to a recipient, who in turn is somehow obligated to reciprocate
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Symbolic Exchange
Definition
When a giver wants to acknowledge intangible support and companionship
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Ritual Artifacts
Definition
Tollhouse cookies, Nestle Cookies, Shampoo
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Fortress Brand
Definition
Brands that we closely link to our rituals, Unlikely to switch
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Holiday Rituals
Definition
People perform rituals related to the special occasion, marketers encourage people to give gifts, sell artifacts, and holidays are full of myths and rituals
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Rites of Passage
Definition

Special times marked by a change in social status

EX: Debutante Balls

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Separation
Definition
Individual is detached from status
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Liminality
Definition
In-between statues
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Aggregation
Definition
Person re-enters society
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Sacred
Definition
Objects and events that are set apart from normal activities
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Profane
Definition
Ordinay objects
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Scared Places
Definition
Bethlehem, Mecca, Stonehenge, Ground Zero
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Scared People
Definition

Idolized and set apart from masses

EX: souvenirs, memorabilia, mundane items touched by scared people have special meaings

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Scared Events
Definition
Sporting events, tourism-souvenir
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Desacralization
Definition

A scared item is removed from its special place or duplicated in mass quantities

EX: American Flag, Mona Lisa, Christmas

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Global Culture
Definition
Adopting a standardized strategy
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Etic perspective
Definition

Commonalities across all cutlure

EX: Starbunks, Gap

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Emic perspective
Definition
Adopting a localized strategy, each country has a national character
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Global Consumers
Definition
Global marketing works when people share the same worldview- young people and affluient global citizens
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Global Citizens
Definition
Global success signals quality, has social concerns
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Global Dreamers
Definition
Global success signals quality
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Antiglobals
Definition
Dont's trust global companies
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Global Angnostics
Definition
Evaluate all products by same criteria
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Creolization
Definition

Process that occurs when foreign influences are absorbed and integrated with local meanings

EX: Indipop

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Globalized consumption ethic
Definition

Material lifestyle with well-known brands

Shopping is a leisure activity

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Coopertation
Definition

Process by which outsiders transform the meanings of cultural products

 

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Instruments of Movement
Definition

Advertising and Fashion Systems

Consumption Rituals

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Destinations of Movement
Definition

Cultural values and symbols

Consumer goods

Individual consumer

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Cultural Selection
Definition
Process by which many possibilities compete for adoption and these are steadily winned out as they make their way down the path from conception to consumption
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Culture Production System

(CPS)

Definition
The set of individuals and organizations responsible for creating and marketing a cultural product
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Creative Subsystems
Definition

Generate new symbols/products

E.G. Black Eyed Peas

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Managerial Subsystem
Definition

Mass producing, managing distribution

E.G. Interscope

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Communications Subsystems
Definition

Giving meaning to the product

E.G. Ad and PR agencies

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Cultural Gatekeepers
Definition
Responsible for filtering the overflow of information and materals intended for consumers
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High Culture and Popular Culture
Definition
Mass culture makes products for a mass market
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Reality Engineering
Definition
Occur as marketers appropriate elements of popular culture and convert them for use a promotional vehicles
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Product Placement
Definition

Type of reality engineering

Refers to the insertion of specific product and the use of brand names in movies, TV shows, games and plays

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