- "Consumerism is a social and economic order in which the goals of many individuals include the acquisition of goods and services beyond those that are necessary for survival or for traditional displays of status."
Consumerism has a significant psychological impact on individuals, including the development of consumer culture, branding, and the creation of perceived needs or wants.
Motivation and Needs: This topic covers the different psychological factors that drive consumer behavior, including Maslow's hierarchy of needs, social and emotional needs, and self-esteem.
Attitudes and Beliefs: This topic focuses on how attitudes and beliefs influence consumer behavior. This includes the impact of social and cultural factors, cognitive dissonance, and belief systems.
Perception: This area studies how consumer's perceive products and brands, including sensory perception, perceptual biases, and brand perception.
Learning and Memory: This topic explores how learning and memory influence consumer behavior, including the role of repetition, reinforcement, and associations.
Personality and Self-concept: This topic covers the impact of consumer's personality traits on their buying behavior, including the role of self-concept and brand personality.
Consumer Decision Making: This area studies the different stages of the consumer decision-making process, including problem recognition, information search, evaluation of alternatives, and purchase behavior.
Consumerism and Social Psychology: This topic explores the role of social psychology in consumerism, including the impact of social norms, social identity and group membership, and social influence.
Emotion, Mood and Consumer Behaviour: This area studies the impact of emotions and mood on consumer behavior, including the role of emotional contagion in marketing.
Culture and Consumerism: This topic focuses on the impact of cultural factors on consumer behavior, including cross-cultural differences in consumer values, beliefs, and attitudes.
Marketing and Advertising: This topic explores the different marketing and advertising strategies used to influence consumer behavior, including the role of emotion, messaging, and pricing.
Motivation: The driving force behind consumer behavior, including both conscious and subconscious impulses to purchase goods and services.
Attitudes and Beliefs: Consumer attitudes and beliefs about products/services and brands, which can influence purchasing decisions.
Learning and Memory: The process of acquiring and retaining information about products and services, including both factual knowledge and emotional associations.
Perception: The way consumers interpret and make sense of the world around them, including the products and brands they encounter.
Personality: The individual characteristics of consumers that can influence their consumer behavior, such as extroversion, conscientiousness, and openness to new experiences.
Social Influence: The impact of social groups and social norms on consumer behavior, including the influence of family, friends, and culture.
Emotions: Consumer emotional responses to products and brands, which can impact both their immediate purchasing decisions and long-term brand loyalty.
Self-Concept: The way consumers see themselves and their sense of identity, which can influence their purchasing decisions and the brands they choose to associate with.
Lifestyle: The way that consumers choose to live and spend their time, which can impact their purchasing decisions and the types of products and brands they choose.
Demographics: The statistical characteristics of consumers based on factors such as age, gender, income, education, and geographic location, which can impact purchasing behavior and preferences.
- "Consumerism has historically existed in many societies, with modern consumerism originating in Western Europe before the Industrial Revolution and becoming widespread around 1900."
- "In 1899, a book on consumerism published by Thorstein Veblen, called The Theory of the Leisure Class, examined the widespread values and economic institutions emerging along with the widespread 'leisure time' at the beginning of the 20th century."
- "Veblen 'views the activities and spending habits of this leisure class in terms of conspicuous and vicarious consumption and waste. Both relate to the display of status and not to functionality or usefulness.'"
- "Experts often assert that consumerism has physical limits, such as growth imperative and overconsumption, which have larger impacts on the environment, including direct effects like overexploitation of natural resources or large amounts of waste from disposable goods, and larger effects like climate change."
- "Consumerism has physical limits, such as growth imperative and overconsumption, which have larger impacts on the environment, including direct effects like overexploitation of natural resources."
- "Consumerism has physical limits, such as growth imperative and overconsumption, which have larger impacts on the environment, including direct effects like [...] large amounts of waste from disposable goods."
- "Consumerism has physical limits, such as growth imperative and overconsumption, which have larger impacts on the environment, including [...] larger effects like climate change."
- "Consumerism has been widely criticized by both individuals who choose other ways of participating in the economy [...] and experts evaluating the effects of modern capitalism on the world."
- "Experts often assert that consumerism has physical limits, such as growth imperative and overconsumption, which have larger impacts on the environment."
- "Similarly, some research and criticism focuses on the sociological effects of consumerism, such as reinforcement of class barriers and creation of inequalities."
- "Veblen 'views the activities and spending habits of this leisure class in terms of conspicuous and vicarious consumption and waste."
- "In an abstract sense, it is the consideration that the free choice of consumers should strongly orient the choice by manufacturers of what is produced and how, and therefore orient the economic organization of a society."
- "Consumerism has historically existed in many societies, with modern consumerism originating in Western Europe before the Industrial Revolution and becoming widespread around 1900."
- "In 1899, a book on consumerism published by Thorstein Veblen, called The Theory of the Leisure Class, examined the widespread values and economic institutions emerging along with the widespread 'leisure time' at the beginning of the 20th century."
- "Consumerism is a social and economic order in which the goals of many individuals include the acquisition of goods and services beyond those that are necessary for survival or for traditional displays of status."
- "Similarly, some research and criticism focuses on the sociological effects of consumerism, such as reinforcement of class barriers and creation of inequalities."
- "In an abstract sense, it is the consideration that the free choice of consumers should strongly orient the choice by manufacturers of what is produced and how."
- "Veblen 'views the activities and spending habits of this leisure class in terms of conspicuous and vicarious consumption and waste."
- "Consumerism has been widely criticized by both individuals who choose other ways of participating in the economy [...] and experts evaluating the effects of modern capitalism on the world."