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Craig J Thompson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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discursivity difference and disruption genealogical reflections on the Consumer Culture theory heteroglossia
Social Science Research Network, 2013Co-Authors: Craig J Thompson, Eric J Arnould, Markus GieslerAbstract:We offer a genealogical perspective on the reflexive critique that Consumer Culture theory (CCT) has institutionalized a hyperindividualizing, overly agentic, and sociologically impoverished mode of analysis that impedes systematic investigations into the historical, ideological, and sociological shaping of marketing, markets, and consumption systems. Our analysis shows that the CCT pioneers embraced the humanistic/experientialist discourse to carve out a disciplinary niche in a largely antagonistic marketing field. However, this original epistemological orientation has long given way to a multilayered CCT heteroglossia that features a broad range of theorizations integrating structural and agentic levels of analysis. We close with a discussion of how reflexive debates over CCT's supposed biases toward the agentic reproduce symbolic distinctions between North American and European scholarship styles and thus primarily reflect the institutional interests of those positioned in the Northern hemisphere. By destabilizing the north-south and center-periphery relations of power that have long-framed metropole social science constructions of the marginalized cultural "other" as an object of study — rather than as a producer of legitimate knowledge and theory — the CCT heteroglossia can be further diversified and enriched through a blending of historical, material, critical, and experiential perspectives.
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discursivity difference and disruption genealogical reflections on the Consumer Culture theory heteroglossia
Marketing Theory, 2013Co-Authors: Craig J Thompson, Eric J Arnould, Markus GieslerAbstract:We offer a genealogical perspective on the reflexive critique that Consumer Culture theory (CCT) has institutionalized a hyperindividualizing, overly agentic, and sociologically impoverished mode o...
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Consumer Culture theory cct twenty years of research
Journal of Consumer Research, 2005Co-Authors: Eric J Arnould, Craig J ThompsonAbstract:This article provides a synthesizing overview of the past 20 yr. of Consumer research addressing the sociocultural, experiential, symbolic, and ideological aspects of consumption. Our aim is to provide a viable disciplinary brand for this research tradition that we call Consumer Culture theory (CCT). We propose that CCT has fulfilled recurrent calls for developing a distinctive body of theoretical knowledge about consumption and marketplace behaviors. In developing this argument, we redress three enduring misconceptions about the nature and analytic orientation of CCT. We then assess how CCT has contributed to Consumer research by illuminating the cultural dimensions of the consumption cycle and by developing novel theorizations concerning four thematic domains of research interest.
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speaking of fashion Consumers uses of fashion discourses and the appropriation of countervailing cultural meanings
Journal of Consumer Research, 1997Co-Authors: Craig J Thompson, Diana L HaytkoAbstract:This article explores the ways that Consumers use fashion discourse to inscribe their consumption behaviors in a complex ideological system of folk theories about the nature of self and society. Verbatim texts of 20 phenomenological interviews concerning Consumers' perceptions and experiences of fashion are interpreted through a hermeneutic process with specific consideration given to gender issues. Whereas critics of Consumer Culture frequently argue that fashion discourses enshroud Consumer perceptions in a common hegemonic outlook, our analysis suggests that this ideological system offers a myriad of countervailing interpretive standpoints that Consumers combine, adapt, and juxtapose to fit the conditions of their everyday lives. By appropriating fashion discourse, Consumers generate personalized fashion narratives and metaphoric and metonymic references that negotiate key existential tensions and that often express resistance to dominant fashion norms in their social milieu or Consumer Culture at large. A theoretical model is derived that portrays a dialogical relationship between Consumers and this cultural system of countervailing fashion meanings. The implications of this model for future research on the meaning transfer process and the sociocognitive dimensions of Consumer beliefs are discussed.
Eric J Arnould - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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discursivity difference and disruption genealogical reflections on the Consumer Culture theory heteroglossia
Social Science Research Network, 2013Co-Authors: Craig J Thompson, Eric J Arnould, Markus GieslerAbstract:We offer a genealogical perspective on the reflexive critique that Consumer Culture theory (CCT) has institutionalized a hyperindividualizing, overly agentic, and sociologically impoverished mode of analysis that impedes systematic investigations into the historical, ideological, and sociological shaping of marketing, markets, and consumption systems. Our analysis shows that the CCT pioneers embraced the humanistic/experientialist discourse to carve out a disciplinary niche in a largely antagonistic marketing field. However, this original epistemological orientation has long given way to a multilayered CCT heteroglossia that features a broad range of theorizations integrating structural and agentic levels of analysis. We close with a discussion of how reflexive debates over CCT's supposed biases toward the agentic reproduce symbolic distinctions between North American and European scholarship styles and thus primarily reflect the institutional interests of those positioned in the Northern hemisphere. By destabilizing the north-south and center-periphery relations of power that have long-framed metropole social science constructions of the marginalized cultural "other" as an object of study — rather than as a producer of legitimate knowledge and theory — the CCT heteroglossia can be further diversified and enriched through a blending of historical, material, critical, and experiential perspectives.
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discursivity difference and disruption genealogical reflections on the Consumer Culture theory heteroglossia
Marketing Theory, 2013Co-Authors: Craig J Thompson, Eric J Arnould, Markus GieslerAbstract:We offer a genealogical perspective on the reflexive critique that Consumer Culture theory (CCT) has institutionalized a hyperindividualizing, overly agentic, and sociologically impoverished mode o...
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society Culture and global Consumer Culture
Wiley International Encyclopedia of Marketing, 2010Co-Authors: Eric J ArnouldAbstract:Consumer Culture is a social system in which consumption is dominated by the consumption of commercial products. In Consumer Culture, the transmission of cultural values, norms, and customary ways of doing things between generations is largely carried out through the exercise of private, personal choice. Just as the Consumer was theorized into existence by the economic philosophers of the eighteenth century, and turned into the linchpin of twentieth-century economies by economic policy makers and Madison Avenue advertisers, so the Consumer continues to be recreated on the global stage. Even as international marketing capitalizes on the proliferation of “cultural difference,” it also demands that cultural difference be rendered manageable within globally reproducible forms and genres. This has led to the identification of what have been called global structures of common difference in global Consumer Culture such as market segments of Consumer themselves, fast-food outlets, soap operas, beauty pageants, comics, and popular music. The spread of global Consumer Culture provokes backlash and resistance. Some antiglobal activists call for deconsumption; some dispute specific elements of global value chains such as brands, GMOs (genetically modified organisms), and sweatshop labor; some promote ethical consumption; and some promote local brands that are ideologically positioned as explicit competitors to their multinational counterparts. Keywords: Consumer Culture; global Consumer Culture; structures of common difference; brands; Consumers; resistance
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service dominant logic and Consumer Culture theory natural allies in an emerging paradigm
2007Co-Authors: Eric J ArnouldAbstract:The aim of this paper is to suggest some potential linkages between Consumer Culture Theory (CCT hereafter) and the evolving Service-Dominant logic (S-D hereafter) propounded by Vargo and Lusch in a series of publications (Vargo & Lusch, 2004, 2006a, 2006b). I begin by discussing why this alliance makes sense. To do this, I review the CCT roots of several foundational propositions for the S-D logic Vargo and Lusch (2004) offer. Then I offer a suggestion for rethinking the notion of Consumer itself. And finally, I discuss some potential changes in preferred constructs that I believe are necessary to fulfill the theoretical promise of the CCT perspective, and follow on from embracing a CCT/S-D perspective.
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Consumer Culture theory cct twenty years of research
Journal of Consumer Research, 2005Co-Authors: Eric J Arnould, Craig J ThompsonAbstract:This article provides a synthesizing overview of the past 20 yr. of Consumer research addressing the sociocultural, experiential, symbolic, and ideological aspects of consumption. Our aim is to provide a viable disciplinary brand for this research tradition that we call Consumer Culture theory (CCT). We propose that CCT has fulfilled recurrent calls for developing a distinctive body of theoretical knowledge about consumption and marketplace behaviors. In developing this argument, we redress three enduring misconceptions about the nature and analytic orientation of CCT. We then assess how CCT has contributed to Consumer research by illuminating the cultural dimensions of the consumption cycle and by developing novel theorizations concerning four thematic domains of research interest.
Markus Giesler - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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discursivity difference and disruption genealogical reflections on the Consumer Culture theory heteroglossia
Social Science Research Network, 2013Co-Authors: Craig J Thompson, Eric J Arnould, Markus GieslerAbstract:We offer a genealogical perspective on the reflexive critique that Consumer Culture theory (CCT) has institutionalized a hyperindividualizing, overly agentic, and sociologically impoverished mode of analysis that impedes systematic investigations into the historical, ideological, and sociological shaping of marketing, markets, and consumption systems. Our analysis shows that the CCT pioneers embraced the humanistic/experientialist discourse to carve out a disciplinary niche in a largely antagonistic marketing field. However, this original epistemological orientation has long given way to a multilayered CCT heteroglossia that features a broad range of theorizations integrating structural and agentic levels of analysis. We close with a discussion of how reflexive debates over CCT's supposed biases toward the agentic reproduce symbolic distinctions between North American and European scholarship styles and thus primarily reflect the institutional interests of those positioned in the Northern hemisphere. By destabilizing the north-south and center-periphery relations of power that have long-framed metropole social science constructions of the marginalized cultural "other" as an object of study — rather than as a producer of legitimate knowledge and theory — the CCT heteroglossia can be further diversified and enriched through a blending of historical, material, critical, and experiential perspectives.
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discursivity difference and disruption genealogical reflections on the Consumer Culture theory heteroglossia
Marketing Theory, 2013Co-Authors: Craig J Thompson, Eric J Arnould, Markus GieslerAbstract:We offer a genealogical perspective on the reflexive critique that Consumer Culture theory (CCT) has institutionalized a hyperindividualizing, overly agentic, and sociologically impoverished mode o...
Janbenedict E M Steenkamp - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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global versus local Consumer Culture theory measurement and future research directions
Journal of International Marketing, 2019Co-Authors: Janbenedict E M SteenkampAbstract:The last few decades have seen the emergence of global Consumer Culture (GCC) as an important force in the marketplace. Yet, in recent years, powerful political and economic forces suggest that glo...
Susan P Douglas - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Consumer world mindedness and attitudes toward product positioning in advertising an examination of global versus foreign versus local positioning
Journal of International Marketing, 2011Co-Authors: Edwin J Nijssen, Susan P DouglasAbstract:Abstract In recent years, increasing interest has emerged in examining global Consumer Culture and its impact on Consumer product preferences and choices, lifestyles, and exposure to mass media from other countries. In turn, this has sparked interest in concepts such as Consumer world-mindedness and its impact on attitudes and behavior. The current research examines differences in Consumer response to advertisements reflecting a global Consumer Culture positioning (GCCP) versus a foreign Consumer Culture positioning (FCCP) or a local Consumer Culture positioning (LCCP) and the relationship with Consumer world-mindedness. In Studies 1 and 2, the authors examine the impact of world-mindedness, while controlling for ethnocentric attitudes. In Study 3, they examine the interactions of world-mindedness, international travel, and preference for authenticity. The authors develop several hypotheses and examine them using two surveys of 90 (Study 1) and 100 Consumers (Studies 2 and 3) in the Netherlands. The resul...