Investigating the Relationship Among Religious Group Attachement and Consumer Preferences: A Field Research Conducted in the Province of Kirikkale
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The effects of social environment in which individual exists on consumption cannot be
ignored. These effects are higher in collectivist cultures where interactions among people are
high like Turkey. But studies are too lack which investigates the relationships among religious
group and consumer preferences which is one of the important type of social set. People tend
to behave suitable with the expectancies of religious groups and group members that they
participate in or sympathize. The goal of this research is pointing out the relationships among
connection level with religious groups and consumer choices. Under this framework, extend
literature investigation is made and relationships among religious groups and consumer
choices is tried to be explained theoretically. After that, these relationships are tested with
initial data which is collected by survey method that is conducted with 452 consumers in
Kirikkale. To reach research goals, difference and correlation analyses are made. According
to research results, it is seen that religious group driven consumption behavior varies in terms
of membership condition and religious group sympathy. Moreover, it is understood that,
religious group attachment, which has individual and social dimensions, is meaningfully
related with sensitive consumption to group relations, suitable product preference to religion
and preference of firm that suitable with political view.
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Bölüm
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Yayımlanma Tarihi
27 Temmuz 2015
Gönderilme Tarihi
27 Temmuz 2015
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Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2015 Cilt: 3 Sayı: Special Issue 3