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AbstractAlthough well accepted by consumer behaviourists in general, self‐concept has received relatively little attention from tourism researchers. This is despite the potential it would appear to offer in terms of enabling an enhanced understanding of how tourists feel and what they seek from the tourism experience. The application of a model of self‐concept in this study suggests self‐concept may provide an alternative segmentation base, giving insights into how people perceive themselves in the tourist role and their consequent behaviour. Copyright © 2001 Henry Stewart Publications.

This article examines how medical advances of the past decade affect social services for people living with HIV. Data for the study were drawn from in-depth interviews with 59 social service providers in Ontario, Canada. New antiretroviral treatments help many people to live longer and healthier lives with HIV. As a result of the improved health of clients, the focus of much of the work of social service providers has changed from acute health concerns to more chronic social issues. HIV can be just one of many complex issues in the lives of clients living with HIV/AIDS, as workers increasingly confront social problems, such as poverty, inadequate housing, or unavailable drug treatment services. Workers may have little training or experience in dealing with such issues. The article describes how agencies and workers have had to adapt to new practice realities resulting from effective HIV treatments.

Consumer frugality has recently started to attract attention, with suggestions that it needs to be understood as a lifestyle. Alternative discussions of frugality posit it as either a personality trait or as a value. This research aims to further our understanding of frugality in some of these respects by examining its association with values as measured using the modified version of Schwartz' value survey. Results of an analysis of frugal and non-frugal New Zealand consumers' values indicate that, although logical significant differences in values do exist, the pattern is too unclear to indicate that frugality exists as a single value. Rather, findings appear consistent with the contention that frugality may be best viewed as a lifestyle choice.

Although a link between lifestyles and social class has long been acknowledged, marketers have more closely identified lifestyles with psychographics and therefore with psychological segmentation. We propose that the origins of lifestyle are more correctly reflected in Weber's approach to status and that it can be viewed more appropriately as the most relevant form of social stratification for a contemporary society. Evidence from an ongoing national study of consumer lifestyles is used to demonstrate how consumer lifestyle segmentation can be used to reflect structural inequalities within society. The ability of lifestyle measurements to evolve and adapt is illustrated. In this sense, lifestyle segmentation is found to be related to, but different from, class and the term psychographics is arguably redundant.

Section 1: Introduction and defining the field. -- Section 2: Community practices -- Section 3: Social development theory and practice -- Section 4: International comparative perspectives -- Section 5: Politics and policy in community practice and social development -- Section 6: Overview summary.

ABSTRACTOver the past decade, increasing attention has been paid to gender‐related consumption behaviour. However, a relative gap in our knowledge still exists when it comes to understanding the changes that occur as a result of motherhood and how this may influence their interactions in the retail environment. The purpose of this article is to explore stay‐at‐home mothers' experiences in the servicescape to gain a better understanding of how they associate with servicescapes during this transitional period, how they use retail space to suit their needs, and how they use retail space to negotiate their role as a stay‐at‐home mother. Five stay‐at‐home mothers with children younger than 5 years were provided with disposable cameras and asked to photograph servicescapes that they visited regularly. Over a 1‐year period, they were interviewed several times, and photo‐elicitation techniques were used throughout the interviewing process. The results of this study suggest that when consumers undergo role or identity changes, certain places can be used to smooth this process. Not only can the retail environment be used as a coping mechanism for stay‐at‐home mothers, it can also be viewed as a "second place" as opposed to a "third place", thus enabling isolated consumers to feel connected with the outside world. Last, this study highlights the temporal dimensions of place. Throughout one's lifetime, one will form attachments to and patronise different places, which will evolve and change as individuals, accordingly, take on different roles and identities. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Although it is widely accepted that music can be used as a tool to communicate symbolic meaning, there has been little inquiry into how music is consumed to represent the self in social interaction. This paper seeks to provide new insights into the ways in which individuals symbolically consume recorded music. Through the interpretation of phenomenological data gathered from 16 sources, a conceptual framework is developed which depicts the relationship between the consumer's self-concept, the symbolic properties of music and the consumption situation. The conceptual framework of the consumption of music as self-representation proposes that individuals can use music to represent themselves in social interaction when the meaning of that music is congruent with the image of themselves that they wish to present. This framework clearly illustrates the strength of situational influence and the role of fluid and multiple self-conceptions identities in the symbolic consumption of music.

Gaski and Eztel's (1986) index of consumer sentiment towards marketing was included together with conventional AIO (activities, interests and opinions) measures in a major survey of consumer lifestyles in New Zealand. Analysis of the AIO material produced a seven segment solution which clearly distinguished consumers on the basis of their value orientations and levels of resources (Todd, Lawson & Faris 1996). All four indices (i.e., Product, Price, Advertising, Retail) comprising the overall consumer sentiment measure were significantly associated with the lifestyle segments. Overall, those consumers who are experiencing better standards of living in material terms are much more positive in their sentiments towards marketing activities in society.