Consumption patterns and lifeworlds: using the example of convenience food - Softcover

Schleicher, Florian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3954892472 ISBN 13: 9783954892471

Publisher: Anchor Academic Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

This paper offers remarkable insights into the German food market and its consumers. A solid theoretical foundation is laid by classical as well as modern authors. The works of these authors form the basis for the theoretical analysis on a social determination of taste. In the following, the field of sociology of consumption is taken into account and analysed. In the practical part, consumers are researched using lifeworlds as a tool of categorization of German households. In the market research economy, lifeworlds are widely perceived as an appropriate tool for researching present and future market developments. The analysed empirical data on purchasing behaviour was provided by the market research study Typology of Desires 2010. Results in the direction of a social determination of taste offer valuable perceptions for theorists and practitioners alike.

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About the Author

Florian Schleicher, MSc, was born in 1983 in Weingarten Germany. In August 2011, he successfully graduated as a Bachelor of Arts from the Free University of Bolzano. There he studied Economy and Social Sciences. In August 2013 he successfully graduated from the Technical University of Munich and the Wageningen University. His field of study was Consumer science. While studying the author used his theoretical knowledge to collect practical experience in market research. In this field of the economy he is also currently employed and well acknowledged.

Edition details

• Publisher: Anchor Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3954892472
• ISBN 13: 9783954892471
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 68