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This paper explores the encouragement of conspicuous consumption seen in the popular TV comedy series ‘Modern Family’ using sociological theories such as those of Thorstein Veblen and Zygmunt Bauman. By looking at consumption using Veblen’s theory as our main approach it becomes clear that “we partake in consumption that reflects our habits and taste, what we consume is an expression of our likes, dislikes and a broad range of interests and motivations,” (Reynolds, 2012). By analysing the Medias role in the encouragement of conspicuous consumption and the role it plays in Modern Family it becomes clear that this concept of consumption is a dominant part of our consumer society. Together these theorists look at this idea of consumption from their own unique point of views by looking at it from different perspectives and giving us an understanding of what consumption is and how over time, conspicuous consumption has become a dominant part of our daily lives.

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The author James B. Twitchell identifies consumerism as being the next evolution of our social behavior. “In our postmodern world we have, it seems, exchanged knowledge of history and science for knowledge of products and how such products interlock to form coherent social patterns” he asserts (Twitchell 321). The implication is that, where we used to rely on crafting items and learning skills for ourselves, we instead find that technological progress has now enhanced the means of production to be so efficient that the value we provide to one another now is not by what we can offer, but by what we decide to buy. These purchase trends are used as a means of forming social connections, and I agree. I have personally observed consumption trends lead to social connections. Certain cultures and sub-cultures have specific styles or looks associated with them. Like-minded or similar interested people can easily identify each other. If an individual is impassioned by rap music, he or she consumes certain brands and types of goods that another person, who’s enthusiastic about country music, would refrain from acquiring.

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Furthermore, Baudrillard’s sign system can be applied to explicate the process of the signification of fashion brands. The sign system leads to a new model of symbolic consumers, which is used to illustrate the interrelationship between all consumer influences. Baudrillard proposed that consumers from different backgrounds interpret fashion symbolism differently. The findings revealed that fashion brands’ marketing elements are translated based on respondents’ experience. The findings also support Grubb and Grathwohl’s (1967) model stating that the signification of fashion goods is generated by the symbolic exchange transactions of groups. Hence, internal and external influences

A ‘commodity sign’ invests symbolic meaning in products or services as a signifier with an image as signified. In recent times, consumer culture is driven by our desire for superfluous wants, causing the production and consumption of commodity signs to become more specialised according to the notion of capital. Capitalism is characterised by economies that are based on open markets and the ethos of individuality over community. French Sociologist Pierre Bourdieu (Distinction 1984) introduced the schema of subcultural capital, which ‘confers status on its owner in the eyes of the relevant beholder’ (Thorton, 2006: 100). Therefore people have the idea that they can buy subcultural capital, as it is seen as self-revealing, in order to impress people or become someone else (Frith, 1996: 5). Thus advertising was developed as a strategy in generating demand in a contemporary consumer culture. Mass marketing has split the unity of signifiers and signified into a language of appearances and images of which we realise as either visible, physical connections or indirect connotations to that which they represent.

The inner characteristics, unique to individuals - define their personality - it reflects the individual differences. Some individuals are very social, some are timid, some adventurous and some methodical. While one's personality is often interpreted by those we interact with, the person has their own vision of their personality - this influences their buying behaviour. Thus, a study of personality is very important for marketers, as it can help them differentiate and segment consumers into separate groups on the basis of their personality traits. Consumers associate they choices with their personality, physical activities, associations with others and their interests. Thus their buying behaviour is mapped to their choices with their psycographic measures (how they live, work and play).

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Consumerism and the effects of branding affect people’s lives. Branding allows consumers to easily identify which products are made by which companies. Yet, the brands create more of an influence on consumer’s lifestyles and in the end decide what kind of consumer that person is. Branding creates a blurred divide in our society. Consumers who are ore likely to purchase the branded products that are associated with better quality and higher prices are put into their own category bucket versus the consumers who choose the cheaper priced products that are made with less quality. When it comes to deciding who you are based off of the products and brands that you associate yourself with, it creates a capital divide in our society. Consumers than associate brands with personal feelings based upon whether or not they associate themselves with those brands. Lives of consumers are heavily influenced. Their lives are worse off when they feel the need to ‘keep up’ with brands in order to feel as if they are portraying themselves in the best light. In a way, this is similar to how all of branding began with livestock. Consumers want to physically brand themselves with specific brands by wearing logos and identifying with a brand. They might not be burning the brands directly onto their skin but they are burning the brands onto their clothes and burning holes in their wallets to keep up with society standards about brands.

Brand attitude has been widely used as a construct to exam consumers’ behaviours in fashion industry studies ( James, 2001). Attitude can define as a person’s psychological adaptation consists with 3 components: personal feeling, intention and beliefs (Kahle & Timmer, 1983) which regarding to a person’s knowledge, beliefs towards the product ( Sehutte, 1999) and previous experience ( O’ Cass & Choy, 2008).

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Youth consumers’ rising demands for contemporary labels are hard to miss. Nowadays, contemporary labels receive a high level of attention when it comes to the Generation Y. As contemporary labels consumers make very distinct purchase decision in this product domain that they differ from the respective mass-market consumers. They are subconsciously also forming a sort of consumer behavior that was known in society as conspicuous consumption. By linking conspicuous consumption with contemporary labels, this essay will investigate the relationship between the two elements and how did it equate together in this marketing environment. Examples of contemporary labels that China’s youth consumers like to conduct conspicuous consumption includes brands like Alexander Wang that has been successful in addressing the need for minimalism that references athleticism in its appearance (Walker, 2011:178). The rationale behind formulating this essay is aimed to define the contemporary labels and the concept of conspicuous consumption that is currently widespread and on going in China after its modernization and the rise of the “super-rich”. Furthermore, it will serve as an investigation to the extent which purchasing contemporary labels represent a form of conspicuous consumption. Consumers actively seeking products that differ from mainstream and companies regard this consumer behavior as an opportunity beyond saturated mass market.

However, although brand personality is designed to be comprehensive and easy-to-understand, it has been questioned on several major dimensions. From the conceptual level, how should brand personality be defined and conceptualized? Is there a clear definition that can indistinguish brand personality from other constructs such as brand image and brand identity? From the methodology level, how can brand personality be best measured? What kind of qualitative and quantitative methodologies can be utilized to articulate the conceptualization? From the substantive level, what