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Sudipa Sinha 18
Kushal Gupta 42
Tanmay Agarwal - 53
CULTURE
A ND I T S
IMPACT O
N
C O N SU M E
R BEHAVIO
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Flow of Presentation
Culture and its Characteristics
Measurements of Culture
Indian Core Culture and Marketers
Changing Cultural Trends
Cultural Aspects of Emerging Markets
Cultural Values in Advertisements
IMC & Cultural Dimensions : Emerging
Markets
CULTURE
It is the sum total of learned beliefs; values and
customs that serve to direct the consumer
behavior of members of a particular society.
Characteristics of Culture
Culture is learned
Culture is unconscious
Culture is Symbolic
Culture is a way of life
Culture is Dynamic
Culture is Relative
Culture is learned
Marketing Example : Nimbu Fresh Ad
Culture Is Learned
Issues
0 Enculturation and
acculturation
0 Language and
symbols
0 Ritual
0 Sharing of culture
0 Enculturation
0 The learning of ones
own culture
0 Acculturation
0 The learning of a new
or foreign culture
0 Ex. HSBC Bank
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Culture Is Learned
Issues
0 Enculturation and
acculturation
0 Language and
symbols
0 Ritual
0 Sharing of culture
0 Without a common
language ,shared
meaning could not exist
0 Marketers must choose
appropriate symbols in
advertising
0 Marketers can use
known symbols for
associations
Symbol
Myth &
Advertising
Culture Is Learned
Issues
0 Enculturation and
acculturation
0 Language and
symbols
0 Ritual
0 Sharing of culture
0 A ritual is a type of
symbolic activity
consisting of a series of
steps
0 Rituals extend over the
human life cycle
0 Marketers realize that
rituals often involve
products (artifacts)
0 Ex TITAN Commercial
Ad.
TYPICAL ARTIFACTS
Wedding
Birthday
Graduation
Valentines Day
Culture Is Learned
Issues
0 Enculturation and
0 To be a cultural
acculturation
0 Language and
symbols
0 Ritual
0 Sharing of Culture
characteristic, a belief,
value, or practice must
be shared by a significant
portion of the society
0 Culture is transferred
through family, schools,
houses of worship, and
media
Culture is Dynamic
0 Evolves because it fills needs.
0 Certain factors change culture
0 Technology
0 Population shifts
0 Resource shortages
0 Wars
0 Changing values
0 Customs from other countries
Video: Amul Manthan
Levels of Subjective
Culture
Supranational level- Reflects different dimensions of
multiple cultures/ different society of nations
Group level- Held with in a country with various subdivisions of the society like family, reference group, &
other closely held group.
Marketers cashing in on
Culture
0 Marketers can use such knowledge to shape
Lifestyle
Lifestyle Matrix for
global youth, aged 1424
The Measurement of
Culture
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Chapter Eleven Slide
: A culture measurement
Content
Analysis
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Chapter Eleven Slide
Consumer
field work :
Based on their
Based on their
observations,
they draw
observations,
they draw
conclusions
about
the
conclusions about the
values; beliefs and
values; beliefs and customs
customs
of the society.
of the society.
Family Orientation
0 Family
for an average
Indian not only includes
ones own family, but
also the extended family
parents; siblings and
grandparents.
0 Implications for
marketers.
Saving Orientation
0 MetLife
Shopping As a Ritual
Mythology
Festivities
0 Tanishq
Food Habits
Cultural Aspects of
Emerging Markets
0 1 billion households in India are now being
Cultural values in
advertisements
0 IMCs should be designed factoring in the
Cultural
interface
values.
Customizing
the content to
each channel of
communication
Ritual setting
that will match
the chosen
values.
Combining
cultural
interface values
and ritual
settings