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Society –Family
Household
Chapter 6
PART II: EXTERNAL INFLUENCES
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Learning Objectives
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The Nature of Households
The Household Influences Most Consumption Decisions
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The Nature of American Households
Household
Consists of all the people who occupy a housing unit
(a house, apartment, group of rooms, or single room
designed to be occupied as a separate living quarters).
Family Household
One having at least two members related by birth,
marriage, or adoption, one of whom is the householder
(householder owns or rents the residence).
Nonfamily Household
A householder living alone or exclusively with others
to whom he or she is not related.
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The Nature of Households
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The Nature of Households
A multigenerational family is a
family household containing
(a) At least two adult
generations, or
(b) A grandparent and at least
one other generation
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The Household Life Cycle
The Traditional view of Family Life Cycle
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A few years People married
later the female by their early
would die 20s
5. 2.
The male Couple had
would several
eventually die children
3.
4. Their children
The original grew up and
couple retired started their
own families
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The Household Life Cycle
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The Household Life Cycle
Stages of the Household Life Cycle
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The Household Life Cycle
Single I
Full Nest I
Single Parent I
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The Household Life Cycle
Middle-Aged Single
Empty Nest I
Full Nest II
Single Parent II
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The Household Life Cycle
Empty Nest II
Older Single
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Marketing Strategy Based on the Household
Life Cycle
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Marketing Strategy Based on the Household
Life Cycle
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Family Decision Making
Family decision making is the process by which decisions that
directly or indirectly involve two or more family members are
made.
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Family Decision Making
Conflict Resolution
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Family Decision Making
The Household Decision-Making Process for Children’s Products
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Family Decision Making
Determinants of Family Purchase Roles
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Family Decision Making
Decision-Making Influence and Relative Income
Husband Earns More Wife Earns More
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Family Decision Making
Conflict Resolution
One study revealed six basic approaches that individuals use to
resolve purchase conflicts1.
Approach Description
Bargaining Trying to reach a compromise.
Impression Misrepresenting the facts in order to win.
Management
Use of Authority Claiming superior expertise or role appropriateness (the
husband/wife should make such decisions).
Reasoning Using logical argument to win.
Playing on Using the silent treatment or withdrawing from the
Emotion discussion.
Additional Getting additional data or a third-party opinion.
Information
1C. Kim and H. Lee, “A taxonomy of Couples Based on Influence Strategies,” Journal of Business Research, June 1996, pp. 157-68.
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Consumer Socialization
The family provides the basic framework in which
consumer socialization occurs.
Consumer socialization is the process by which young
people acquire skills, knowledge, and attitudes relevant
to their functioning as consumers in the marketplace.
Understanding the content and the process of
consumer socialization.
Consumer socialization content refers to what children
learn with respect to consumption.
Consumer socialization process refers to how they learn it.
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Consumer Socialization
Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development
Stage Description
Stage 1 The period of sensorimotor intelligence (0-2 yrs.)
- behavior is primarily motor
- the child does not yet “think” conceptually, though
cognitive development is seen
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Consumer Socialization
The Content of Consumer Socialization
Consist of three categories:
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Consumer Socialization
The Process of Consumer Socialization
Consumer socialization occurs primarily through family, as well as
through a number of avenues including advertising and friends.
Parents socialize their children through the following:
1. Instrumental training—occurs when a parent or sibling
specifically and directly attempts to bring about certain
responses through reasoning or reinforcement.
2. Modeling—occurs when a child learns appropriate, or
inappropriate, consumption behaviors by observing others.
3. Mediation—occurs when a parent alters a child’s initial
interpretation of, or response to, a marketing or other stimulus.
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Marketing to Children
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