Lecture 5: Space and Place Flashcards
(22 cards)
What is the Extended Self in relation to commercial spaces?
The Extended Self is the concept that possessions are an extension of one’s identity.
Define Singularization in the context of commercial spaces.
Singularization is the process by which objects become unique and personal.
What does Appropriation mean in terms of consumer behavior?
Appropriation is how consumers adopt and personalize objects and spaces.
What is Place Attachment?
Place attachment refers to the emotional bonds formed with specific commercial locations.
Which study highlights emotional connections to restaurants and cafés?
Debenedetti, A., Oppewal, H., & Arsel, Z. (2014)
What are the main factors that create Place Attachment?
Familiarity, Security, and Authenticity
How does Familiarity contribute to Place Attachment?
Familiarity involves knowing the place/people and social interactions, such as with staff/customers.
Describe how Security contributes to Place Attachment.
Security refers to the place being a safe-haven or symbolic shelter.
How does Authenticity contribute to Place Attachment?
Authenticity involves a genuine feeling, non-commercialized atmosphere, and irreplaceability.
Give an example of how decor can create Homeyness.
Decor such as dim lights can create environmental cues that enhance homeyness.
What does ‘Creating Home in Public Spaces’ involve?
It involves transforming spaces into social hubs with personalized setups, arranging spaces for familiarity, and building communities through social interactions.
What is the significance of Domestic Practices in consumer culture?
Domestic practices shape consumer culture by influencing activities like DIY, home needs, living styles, decoration, and tidying up.
What does Symbolic Classification refer to?
Symbolic Classification, according to Mary Douglas (1971), is the assignment of things to specific places, applied in the home through decoration and organization.
Define Symbolic Pollution.
Symbolic Pollution is a transgression that violates symbolic classification/order, meaning things are out of place, which is subjective and can be negotiated.
How can consumers cope with Symbolic Pollution?
By negotiating boundaries and managing transgressions; broad classifications allow objects to mix without generating symbolic pollution.
What is the difference between Space and Place?
Space is anonymous and empty of meaning, while Place is an ‘appropriated’ space, instilled with meaning and consumed.
What are some methods to appropriate space?
Nesting, Marking, and Exploring are methods to appropriate space.
Describe Nesting as a way to appropriate space.
Nesting involves arranging physical objects around oneself to create a comfortable ‘bubble’.
What is Marking in terms of appropriating space?
Marking is leaving a trace of one’s existence, sometimes through resisting (political ideas), beautifying, or just identifying space as one’s ‘own’.
Explain the concept of Exploring in appropriating space.
Exploring involves getting familiar with a space’s boundaries, nooks, and corners.
How do consumers transform empty spaces into meaningful places?
By locating, constructing, customizing, inhabiting, tidying, cleaning, nesting, marking, or exploring.
What can foster attachment in commercial spaces?
Familiarity, authenticity, and security can foster attachment in commercial spaces.
