Symbolic consumption occurs when a consumer purchases or uses a product as a result of emotional driving factors as opposed to functional driving factors.
The term is used to describe the phenomenon whereby people consume to reflect their sense of self identity. A common example is clothing from premium brands - people consume these products not because of their high quality or the material that they are made from but for the effect the items have on the individuals public self image (See the Johari Window - http://seerhearttarotreadings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/johari-window.jpg).
This concept is strongly linked to the theory of processions. For more information see Belk's 1988 paper on the Extended Self.
if they are used for personal consumption.
the role of middleman in distribution is to get porduct to consumption unit.
increasing awareness of environmental issues.
Consumer consumption was encouraged by the extensive use of advertising and the use of __________ - a practice that allowed a product to be purchased using credit provided by the retailer.
1) Feel their pain 2) Do all you can do to resolve the problem 3) Offer "symbolic atonement"
some ways to apply basic consumption of the symbolic interactionist perspective to shopping and consumption
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Symbolic logic or algebra.
The Symbolic Species was created in 1997.
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