CULTURE INFLUENCE ON CONSUMER BEHAVIOR

MANAGEMENT

Culture is the collective values, customs, norms, arts, social institutions, and intellectual achievements of a particular society. The study of culture is a challenging undertaking because its primary focus is on the broadest component of social behavior – an entire society, or in comparing and contrasting the cultural differences and similarities and more than one culture. In a diversified country like India cultural factors exert the broadest and deepest influence on consumer behavior. Culture influences consumers through the norms and values established by the society in which they live. The impact of culture is automatic and almost invisible. Culture affects how consumers use or consume products. Consumer buy products to obtain function form and meaning, all of which marketers must consider since they are defined by the cultural context of consumption. This paper is to understand the culture value and how it influence consumer behavior and for a marketer it is important to know the behavior related to culture as it is one of the main cause bringing change to the market and the buying behavior of the consumer.

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