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1 Analyzing Consumer Markets
CH 6

2 What Influences Consumer Behavior?
Cultural Factors Social Factors Personal Factors

3 What is Culture? Culture is the fundamental determinant of a person’s wants and behaviors acquired through socialization processes with family and other key institutions.

4 Subcultures Nationalities Religions Racial groups Geographic regions

5 Upper uppers Lower uppers Upper middles Middle class Working class
Social Classes Upper uppers Lower uppers Upper middles Middle class Working class Upper lowers Lower lowers

6 Characteristics of Social Classes
Within a class, people tend to behave alike Social class conveys perceptions of inferior or superior position Class may be indicated by a cluster of variables (occupation, income, wealth) Class designation is mobile over time

7 Social Factors Reference groups Family Social roles Statuses

8 Membership groups Primary groups Secondary groups Aspirational groups
Reference Groups Membership groups Primary groups Secondary groups Aspirational groups Dissociative groups

9 What degree of status is associated with various occupational roles?
Roles and Status What degree of status is associated with various occupational roles?

10 Age Self- Life cycle concept stage Occupation Lifestyle Wealth Values
Personal Factors Age Self- concept Life cycle stage Occupation Lifestyle Wealth Values Personality

11 The Family Life Cycle

12 Sincerity Excitement Competence Sophistication Ruggedness
Brand Personality Sincerity Excitement Competence Sophistication Ruggedness

13 Lifestyle Influences Multi-tasking Time-starved Money-constrained

14 Faysal Bank of Pakistan has extended banking hours for time-pressed executives.

15 Figure 6.1 Model of Consumer Behavior

16 Key Psychological Processes
Motivation Perception Learning Memory

17 Copyright © 2009 Dorling Kindersley (India) Pvt. Ltd. 6-17
Motivation Freud’s Theory Behavior is guided by subconscious motivations Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Behavior is driven by the lowest, unmet need Herzberg’s Two-Factor Theory Behavior is guided by motivating and hygiene factors Copyright © 2009 Dorling Kindersley (India) Pvt. Ltd

18 Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

19 Herzberg’s Two-Factor Theory

20 Subliminal Perception
Selective Attention Selective Retention Selective Distortion Subliminal Perception

21 Figure 6.4 Consumer Buying Process
Problem Recognition Information Search Evaluation Purchase Decision Postpurchase Behavior

22 Sources of Information
Personal Commercial Public Experiential

23 Figure 6.6 Stages between Evaluation of Alternatives and Purchase

24 Perceived Risk Functional Physical Financial Social Psychological Time

25 Figure 6.7 How Customers Use and Dispose of Products

26 Rural Consumer Behaviour
Rural consumers are more brand loyal Restrictions on consumption Collective consumption behavior: for family rather than individual Seasonality of consumption based on seasonality of agricultural production/income Specific patterns in the five-stage buying decision process

27 Integrate smaller losses with larger gains
Mental Accounting Consumers tend to… Segregate gains Integrate losses Integrate smaller losses with larger gains Segregate small gains from large losses


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