Class Wars
Reference Groups
Family
Parts of Culture
Vocabulary
100

Partakes in manual labor for low wages

Lower Class

100

Celebrities

Aspirational

100

consists of the couple as parents and their
children in the same household

Nuclear Family

100

Teens, Tweens, Gen Z, Gen X, Gen Alpha, etc.

Age

100

a specialized, non-geographically bound community that is underpinned by a structured set of social relationships that exists among users of a particular brand, and members have a common understanding that they have a shared identity

Brand Community

200

Owns property and controls production

Upper Class

200

Nuclear Family

Associative

200

consists of the nuclear family and some
members of its multiple generations staying together in the same house

Extended Family

200

Movies, Tv, Film, Music, Social Media, Celebrities, etc.

Pop Culture

200

individuals who offer an asymmetric peer effect by exerting a stronger influence on the consumption behavior of others

Opinion Leaders

300

Lives a healthier lifestyle compared to other classes

Middle Class

300

Protested/Boycotted Companies

Dissociative

300

parents and their children who are unmarried in the
household but with one of these children, his or her
spouse, and their children living with them

Stem Family

300

Christmas, Church, Hanukkah, Synagogue, Mosque, etc.

Religion

300

psychological association that an individual has with a brand

Self-Brand Connection

400

Benefits the most from cosmopolitanism

Upper Class

400

Opinion Leaders

Aspirational 

400

What is the first stage of the family life cycle?

Single/Bachelor/spinster

400

Region, Landscape, Monuments, Waterways, etc.

Geography

400

high in the host culture and low in their home cultures

Assimilation

500

How does consumption contribute to social exclusion?

Snobbism
Transmission of Tacit Knowledge
Achieving Information Advantage


500

Consumer Action Groups

Associative

500

What are the four influences of consumer socialization?

Peers, Mass Media, Parents, Siblings

500

Greek Gods, mermaids, Dragons, etc.

Myths & Rituals

500

learning the culture of other people

Acculturation