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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818508703321

Autore

Walle Alf H

Titolo

Exotic visions in marketing theory and practice / / Alf H. Walle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, Conn., : Quorum Books, 2002

ISBN

1-4294-7313-4

0-313-00469-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Disciplina

658.8

Soggetti

Marketing research

Marketing - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Beyond Science -- I. Kant, Hegel, and Marx: Three Often-Ignored Pioneers -- 2. Kant and the Tempering of Science: A Metaphor for Marketing -- 3. Friedrich Hegel: Social Structure as Overarching Monolith -- 4. Marxist Theory and Marketing/Consumer Research: An Anthropological Perspective -- 5. The Intellectual Ancestors of Modern Qualitative Thought -- II. The Structural Paradigm and Its Variants -- 6. Mental Structuralism: The Nature of the Human Mind -- 7. Classic Social Structuralism: An Overview -- 8. Social Structures and Consumer Response: The Culture at a Distance Method -- 9. Social Structures and the Consumption of Art: The Myth and Symbol Method -- 10. Social Structures and Strategic Behavior: The Face to Face Method -- 11. The Structural Perspective: A Synthesis -- III. Individualistic and Poststructural Perspectives -- 12. Alternatives to Structural Analysis: The Existential Initiative -- 13. Poststructural Leaders and Marketing/Consumer Research -- 14. Conflict Theory: Individualism within a Social Context -- 15. Individualistic Implications and Marketing Research -- 16. Conclusion: A Diversity of Methods -- Index.