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Consumer behavior research paradigm conversion process
Author: Thomas samuel kuhn
Study of consumer behavior more than a hundred years the history of the formation of the two paradigms - positivism and non-empirical study of consumer behavior represents the meaning of the basic achievements. Positivist paradigm to non-positivist paradigm shift represents a shift consumer behavior research, consumer behavior research is a revolutionary change. This paradigm shift, but also makes the assumption that consumer behavior research, research methods, study, basic knowledge of related disciplines, and many borrowed position have changed dramatically. Background of this changing environment to promote the 20th century, 80 years after the world economic growth and prosperity, the industrial structure has undergone tremendous changes, purchasing power has been an unprecedented increase, the pursuit of individuality and freedom of consumers desire to e increasingly The more intense.
1 Paradigm shift in consumer behavior research review process
Research on consumer behavior, such as in Adam Smith's classical economics • theory began to take shape; Marshall and other neoclassical economics in the formation of the initial system; the 20th century, 50 to 60 years, consumer behavior to the form of an independent discipline separate from marketing. In its hundred years of development history, its research paradigm can be summarized as positivism and non-positivism two.
Moreover, each paradigm are pregnant with a large number of research perspectives. Positivism, including rational, behavior, cognition, motivation, social characteristics, attitudes and situational perspectives; rather than positivist paradigm, including the interpretation and post-modernism are two basic perspectives. Consumer behavior theory by converting non-positivism positivism's fundamental motivation is to change consumer researchers rational assumptions. Early classical economics and neo-classica