Inside Consumption

'This book truly challenges us to think outside the box. The editors have assembled an impressive and diverse group of well respected scholars and some of the brightest young minds in the field. These authors push our thinking toward new frontiers in existing areas of consumer research (e.g., motivation, emotion vs. cognition, and decision making) as well as new topics (e.g., consumer hope, community and culture, intergenerational influences). This book will help set the research agenda for the next generation.' - Wayne D. Hoyer, The James L. Bayless/William S. Farish Chair for Free Enterprise, University of Texas at Austin

'This volume presents a rich variety of distinct approaches to understanding consumer motivations in an affluent society. These diverse approaches range from more atomistic views of consumers exercising approach or avoidance tendencies, pursuing goals, maximizing utility, responding to advertising, or making decisions, to more molar views of consumers participating in cultural systems, enacting rituals, engaging symbolic worlds, forming communities, or questing for identities. Rather than seeing these chapters as pieces of a coherent whole, the volume may be best read as a series of arguments on behalf of alternative paradigms. It is here that the book gains its power as a provocative contest of approaches by insightful authors steeped in different cultural mythologies and social worlds.' - Russell W. Belk, N. Eldon Tanner Professor, University of Utah

'This book truly challenges us to think outside the box. The editors have assembled an impressive and diverse group of well respected scholars and some of the brightest young minds in the field. These authors push our thinking toward new frontiers in existing areas of consumer research (e.g., motivation, emotion vs. cognition, and decision making) as well as new topics (e.g., consumer hope, community and culture, intergenerational influences). This book will help set the research agenda for the next generation.' - Wayne D. Hoyer, The James L. Bayless/William S. Farish Chair for Free Enterprise, University of Texas at Austin

'This volume presents a rich variety of distinct approaches to understanding consumer motivations in an affluent society. These diverse approaches range from more atomistic views of consumers exercising approach or avoidance tendencies, pursuing goals, maximizing utility, responding to advertising, or making decisions, to more molar views of consumers participating in cultural systems, enacting rituals, engaging symbolic worlds, forming communities, or questing for identities. Rather than seeing these chapters as pieces of a coherent whole, the volume may be best read as a series of arguments on behalf of alternative paradigms. It is here that the book gains its power as a provocative contest of approaches by insightful authors steeped in different cultural mythologies and social worlds.' - Russell W. Belk, N. Eldon Tanner Professor, University of Utah