mod 8 material/ economic self

• material self - comprises belongings like the body, family, clothes, & money
• William James - believed that the body was the core, while clothes expressed one's identity
• money & family were critical parts of the material self
• financial constraints - limitations or restrictions on an individual or organization's ability to access & use financial resources
• availability of items and services - retailers ability to meet customers' demand at a given time. May provide detailed info.
• influence of family wants or needs - can have significant impact on our material self. Can shape our preferences
• income - amount of money that a person earns can greatly impact their ability to purchase
• expenses - cost of living & expenses such rent, bill & other necessities
• dept - significant amount of dept it can limit their ability to purchase
• employment status - being un/underemployed
• education - to secure higher paying jobs & advance in their career
• wants - people buy them for reasons that don't warrant necessity
• needs - important for survival, e.g. food, water, shelter
• utility - how things serve a practical purpose
• significance - assigned to the object. Also how objects become powerful symbol or icons of habit
• John Heskett - British writer & professor at institution of design at Illinois institute of technoogy
• form and decorations - reflects the personal identity
• Roland Barthes - critical theorist means truth-seeker logician and philosopher, he is a genius/nerd
• Roland Barhtes - founded the semiology
• semiology - the study of objects as signs
• 2 elements of signs

  signifier - physical form of the object

  signified - mental concept of an object
• theory of material possessions - (Dittmar 1992,2004) suggested that materials goods can fulfill a range of instrument social symbolic & affective fumctions
• social symbolic functions - for instance buying an iphone instead of other moblie phones
• categorical functions - material possession may be used to communicate
• self-expressive functions - person's unique qualities values on attitude
• economic - study of things that a person is lacking how people use things
• economic consciousness - result of socialization & professionalization of the subject that acquires a particular significance in human
• economic identity - psychological phenomenon that results social categories
• status the extent - people believe that they can derive a sense of recognition
• affective motive - environmental psychology erves as motivator
• anticipated affect - a person is expecting to feel good, quality when doing something
• positive affect - excitement, pride, happiness
• negative affect - anger, sadness,frustration