Steps towards transformative consumer research practice: a taxonomy of possible reflexivities

NoThe aim of ACR 2005 has been articulated by the organisers as the promotion and dissemination of consumer research `for¿ consumers. This call asks for transformative consumer research raising the issue that `Historically, the organization¿s research has been impelled by the theoretical and substantive interests of academics¿. It is on this point that this paper acts to transform arguing that a transformative ethic should be enacted though consumer research praxis. To achieve this it presents worked examples of the practice of reflexivity in consumer research developing a taxonomy of `possible reflexivities¿, and discusses their possibilities for transformation of the consumer research process

A quadripartite approach to analysing young British South Asian adults’ dual cultural identity

Adopting an acculturation perspective, this article explicates the duality of young British South Asian adults’ cultural dispositions. In so doing, it examines the complex dialectic processes that influence their acculturation strategies. By using a maximum variation sampling method, respondents from six major cities in Great Britain were interviewed for this study. The findings show that young British South Asian adults exhibit attributes of both of their ancestral and host cultures. Their dual cultural identity is constituted due to four major reasons: consonances with ancestral culture, situational constraints, contextual requirements, and conveniences. This quadripartite perspective informs a non-context specific theoretical model of acculturation. Marketing managers seeking to serve this diaspora market (and others) can utilise this theoretical framework in order to more-fully comprehend diaspora members’ religiosity, social, communal and familial bonding and other cultural dispositions and, moreover, their manifestations in their day-to-day lives

Steps towards transformative consumer research practice: a taxonomy of possible reflexivities

The aim of ACR 2005 has been articulated by the organisers as the promotion and dissemination of consumer research ‘for’ consumers. This call asks for transformative consumer research raising the issue that ‘Historically, the organization’s research has been impelled by the theoretical and substantive interests of academics’. It is on this point that this paper acts to transform arguing that a transformative ethic should be enacted though consumer research praxis. To achieve this it presents worked examples of the practice of reflexivity in consumer research developing a taxonomy of ‘possible reflexivities’, and discusses their possibilities for transformation of the consumer research proces

Working the limits of method: the possibilities of critical reflexive practice in marketing and consumer research

Developed primarily through feminist critiques of the production of knowledge, researcher reflexivity has been identified in consumer research (Wallendorf and Brucks 1993; Hirschman 1993; Thompson 2002) and in the wider social sciences (e.g. Wasserfall 1993; Mauthner and Doucet 2003) as a way to address power and control in the research encounter, to attend to the researcher/researched dynamic and to give insightful commentaries into the research process itself. Following the call for consumer and marketing researchers to "exhibit a degree of reflexivity" in order to "recognise the role of the researcher in the production of knowledge" (Tadajewski and Brownlie 2008, p. 10), this paper develops a structured approach to the possibilities of critical reflexive practice in marketing and consumer research

Doing feminist research in a masculine paradigm

This paper aims to do three things; firstly the authors will present a case for their argument that marketing can be viewed as a masculine paradigm, secondly a critical perspective of traditional research methodologies within marketing and consumer research will be developed and, finally, the authors will share their own experiences of adopting alternative approaches and engaging in research reflexivity