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4 metaphors to describe the motives for consumption
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Why do we consume?
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What do people do when they consume?
To address this question Holt produced a taxonomy of consumption practices based upon 2 concepts.
1. The purpose of consumption
2. The structure of consumption
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The purpose of consumption
Holt describes that, the purpose of consuming may involve the use of the consumption object as purely an end in itself (autotelic/ terminal actions) or alternatively as a means to achieve some other purpose (instrumental/ means to an end actions).
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The structure of consumption
Involves the consumer either directly engaging with the consumption object (object actions) or alternatively, using the object as a focus to enable interactions with others (interpersonal actions).
Crossing these two dimensions of purpose and structure, yields a 4 cell matrix.
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Experience Integration
ClassificationPlay
4 Metaphors for Symbolic Consumption
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Experience Integration
ClassificationPlay
Purpose
Structure
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Experience Integration
ClassificationPlayInteractions
Actions
Terminal Means to an end
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ExperienceEmotional or
Physical Pleasure
IntegrationAssimilate
consumption with self for a ‘richer’
experience
ClassificationDelineate
associations with others
PlayInteract with
others
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Consuming as experience
These are the felt experiences resulting from the pleasure of consuming an object.
This examines consumer’s subjective, emotional reactions to consumption objects.
These emotional experiences are enhanced by consumer learning an interpretive framework.
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Experience
Accounting
Evaluating
Appreciating
3 different ways in which consumers use this interpretive framework
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Accounting – requires using an interpretive framework to make sense of an object or to account for actions associated with its consumption.
Evaluating – practices involve the construction of value judgments about objects and actions. These judgments require reference to three types of benchmark: norms, histories and conventions
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Norms: official norms (trophies, awards) Histories : past experiences Conventions : rituals, socially accepted
behaviour
Appreciating – involves the emotional responses or feelings towards objects, actions persons or situations that involve a product consumption. (senses of sight, smell and taste)
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Consuming as an integration
Describes how consumers acquire and manipulate object meaning
Meaning making and facilitating the symbolic use of the object
Recalling prior knowledge, experience and memories
These integrating methods are facilitated through 3 processes.
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Assimilating: involves consumer developing specialized knowledge and skills that enable them to interact socially.
Producing: methods used by consumers to enhance the perceptions that they are involved directly in the production of the object.
some actively engage in production of the object but others may resort to storytelling involving prediction and bonding practices.
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Predicting – before unwrap a package you predict to show off
Bonding – celebrity
Personalizing : of clothing and the integration of individual experience in to the consumption event.
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Integration
Assimilation
Producing
Personalising
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Consuming as play
Use of consumption object as a resource to facilitate social interaction among a heterogeneous group of consumers who often have little else in common.
Sharing mutually felt experiences with each other, and making use of experiential practices to entertain each other
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Two types of playing practices
Communing : this occurs when consumers share a mutually felt experiences focusing upon a central object. Sharing one’s intimate thoughts.
Socializing : involves performative entertaining of others
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Play
Socialising
Communing
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Classification
Through
Objects & Actions
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Consuming as classification
Refers the practices consumers use to classify themselves in relation to others.
Consumers use these practices either to build affiliations with others or to enhance distinctions from others.
Two distinct methods: classification through objects and classification through actions
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Objects: classifying themselves through souvenirs, signed books, ornament collections, memberships, document given as a token of attendance to a special event and etc.
Actions: how the consumer interacts with the consumption object. (same practices used for the purpose of integration)
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Experience Integration
ClassificationPlay
4 Metaphors for Symbolic Consumption