John F Sherry Jr
Biographic Data
| ID | 201128 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John F Sherry Jr |
| GIVEN NAMES | John F |
| FAMILY NAME | Sherry Jr |
| SIGNATURE | JR J F S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 521 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Ludic Agency and Retail Spectacle
Spectacular, themed environments have been theorized as places where play is limited and consumer agency is overpowered. In a multiperspectival ethnographic engagement with ESPN Zone Chicago, we find consumers resisting the rules, but only to a limited degree. Spectacular consumption possesses a do-it-yourself quality unrecognized in prior theory. Technology and screens are important to this form of play, which exhibits a transcendent character b…
Framing considerations in the prc: Creating Value in the Contemporary Chinese Art Market
This study of art galleries in the Peoples’ Republic of China (PRC) uses a political economy approach to examine the contours of the art world and the art market. A Chinese art market based on the Western and Japanese models was created in the early twentieth century, but was abolished in 1949 when the PRC, under Chairman Mao, adopted a socialist framing model on a national scale. Breaking out of this totalizing frame was difficult despite the ad…
Speaking of Art as Embodied Imagination: A Multisensory Approach to Understanding Aesthetic Experience
This article focuses on somatic experience—not just the process of thinking bodily but how the body informs the logic of thinking about art. We examine the links between embodiment, movement, and multisensory experience insofar as they help to elucidate the contours of art appreciation in a museum. We argue that embodiment can be identified at two levels: the phenomenological and the cognitive unconscious. At the first level, individuals are cons…
Disentangling the paradoxical alliances between art market and art world
The relationship between art and market can be rendered visible only by closely examining the actions of contemporary artists, art critics, and writers, and the efforts of gallery and auction house merchandisers. A market orientation is just one way of evaluating the activities of the art world. Art and market are not reducible to each other, no matter the prevailing ideology. While the market operates on a narrative that valorizes the latest tre…
A Sociocultural Analysis of a Midwestern American Flea Market
The ethnographic case study presented in this article illustrates the institutional complexity and sociocultural significance of a midwestern American flea market. A conception of market place structure and function that incorporates informal and festive dimensions of consumer behavior is advanced. The article explores the relationship of primary and secondary economic activity. Buyer and seller behavior, marketplace ambience, the social embedded…
The Sacred and the Profane in Consumer Behavior: Theodicy on the Odyssey
Two processes at work in contemporary society are the secularization of religion and the sacralization of the secular. Consumer behavior shapes and reflects these processes. For many, consumption has become a vehicle for experiencing the sacred. This article explores the ritual substratum of consumption and describes properties and manifestations of the sacred inherent in consumer behavior. Similarly, the processes by which consumers sacralize an…
A Naturalistic Inquiry into Buyer and Seller Behavior at a Swap Meet
Naturalistic inquiry as an ethnographic approach is explained and utilized for exploring emergent themes in buyer and seller behavior at a swap meet. Components of the method used include purposive sampling, triangulation across researchers, emergent theme analysis, autodriving, memoing, member checks, and auditing. Four emergent dialectical substantive themes are discussed: freedom versus rules, boundaries versus transitions, competition versus …
May Your Life Be Marvelous: English Language Labelling and the Semiotics of Japanese Promotion
A recent trend in consumer research is the broadening of the notion of consumer behavior to include activities not merely epiphenomenal to marketing. Another trend with earlier historical origins is the semiotic interpretation of consumption activities. These trends are merged in the present article, which contrasts the vehemence with which Japanese cultural uniqueness is linked with the spirit of the language (kotodama) with the Japanese readine…
Gift Giving in Anthropological Perspective
Journal Article Gift Giving in Anthropological Perspective Get access John F. Sherry, Jr. John F. Sherry, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Consumer Research, Volume 10, Issue 2, September 1983, Pages 157-168, https://doi.org/10.1086/208956 Published: 01 September 1983 Article history Received: 01 January 1983 Revision received: 01 June 1983 Published: 01 September 1983
Gift Giving in Anthropological Perspective
Journal Article Gift Giving in Anthropological Perspective Get access John F. Sherry, Jr. John F. Sherry, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Consumer Research, Volume 10, Issue 2, September 1983, Pages 157-168, https://doi.org/10.1086/208956 Published: 01 September 1983 Article history Received: 01 January 1983 Revision received: 01 June 1983 Published: 01 September 1983
The Sacred and the Profane in Consumer Behavior: Theodicy on the Odyssey
Two processes at work in contemporary society are the secularization of religion and the sacralization of the secular. Consumer behavior shapes and reflects these processes. For many, consumption has become a vehicle for experiencing the sacred. This article explores the ritual substratum of consumption and describes properties and manifestations of the sacred inherent in consumer behavior. Similarly, the processes by which consumers sacralize an…
Speaking of Art as Embodied Imagination: A Multisensory Approach to Understanding Aesthetic Experience
This article focuses on somatic experience—not just the process of thinking bodily but how the body informs the logic of thinking about art. We examine the links between embodiment, movement, and multisensory experience insofar as they help to elucidate the contours of art appreciation in a museum. We argue that embodiment can be identified at two levels: the phenomenological and the cognitive unconscious. At the first level, individuals are cons…
A Naturalistic Inquiry into Buyer and Seller Behavior at a Swap Meet
Naturalistic inquiry as an ethnographic approach is explained and utilized for exploring emergent themes in buyer and seller behavior at a swap meet. Components of the method used include purposive sampling, triangulation across researchers, emergent theme analysis, autodriving, memoing, member checks, and auditing. Four emergent dialectical substantive themes are discussed: freedom versus rules, boundaries versus transitions, competition versus …
Ludic Agency and Retail Spectacle
Spectacular, themed environments have been theorized as places where play is limited and consumer agency is overpowered. In a multiperspectival ethnographic engagement with ESPN Zone Chicago, we find consumers resisting the rules, but only to a limited degree. Spectacular consumption possesses a do-it-yourself quality unrecognized in prior theory. Technology and screens are important to this form of play, which exhibits a transcendent character b…
A Sociocultural Analysis of a Midwestern American Flea Market
The ethnographic case study presented in this article illustrates the institutional complexity and sociocultural significance of a midwestern American flea market. A conception of market place structure and function that incorporates informal and festive dimensions of consumer behavior is advanced. The article explores the relationship of primary and secondary economic activity. Buyer and seller behavior, marketplace ambience, the social embedded…
Disentangling the paradoxical alliances between art market and art world
The relationship between art and market can be rendered visible only by closely examining the actions of contemporary artists, art critics, and writers, and the efforts of gallery and auction house merchandisers. A market orientation is just one way of evaluating the activities of the art world. Art and market are not reducible to each other, no matter the prevailing ideology. While the market operates on a narrative that valorizes the latest tre…
May Your Life Be Marvelous: English Language Labelling and the Semiotics of Japanese Promotion
A recent trend in consumer research is the broadening of the notion of consumer behavior to include activities not merely epiphenomenal to marketing. Another trend with earlier historical origins is the semiotic interpretation of consumption activities. These trends are merged in the present article, which contrasts the vehemence with which Japanese cultural uniqueness is linked with the spirit of the language (kotodama) with the Japanese readine…
Framing considerations in the prc: Creating Value in the Contemporary Chinese Art Market
This study of art galleries in the Peoples’ Republic of China (PRC) uses a political economy approach to examine the contours of the art world and the art market. A Chinese art market based on the Western and Japanese models was created in the early twentieth century, but was abolished in 1949 when the PRC, under Chairman Mao, adopted a socialist framing model on a national scale. Breaking out of this totalizing frame was difficult despite the ad…
Gift Giving in Anthropological Perspective
Journal Article Gift Giving in Anthropological Perspective Get access John F. Sherry, Jr. John F. Sherry, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Consumer Research, Volume 10, Issue 2, September 1983, Pages 157-168, https://doi.org/10.1086/208956 Published: 01 September 1983 Article history Received: 01 January 1983 Revision received: 01 June 1983 Published: 01 September 1983
May Your Life Be Marvelous: English Language Labelling and the Semiotics of Japanese Promotion
A recent trend in consumer research is the broadening of the notion of consumer behavior to include activities not merely epiphenomenal to marketing. Another trend with earlier historical origins is the semiotic interpretation of consumption activities. These trends are merged in the present article, which contrasts the vehemence with which Japanese cultural uniqueness is linked with the spirit of the language (kotodama) with the Japanese readine…
A Naturalistic Inquiry into Buyer and Seller Behavior at a Swap Meet
Naturalistic inquiry as an ethnographic approach is explained and utilized for exploring emergent themes in buyer and seller behavior at a swap meet. Components of the method used include purposive sampling, triangulation across researchers, emergent theme analysis, autodriving, memoing, member checks, and auditing. Four emergent dialectical substantive themes are discussed: freedom versus rules, boundaries versus transitions, competition versus …
The Sacred and the Profane in Consumer Behavior: Theodicy on the Odyssey
Two processes at work in contemporary society are the secularization of religion and the sacralization of the secular. Consumer behavior shapes and reflects these processes. For many, consumption has become a vehicle for experiencing the sacred. This article explores the ritual substratum of consumption and describes properties and manifestations of the sacred inherent in consumer behavior. Similarly, the processes by which consumers sacralize an…
A Sociocultural Analysis of a Midwestern American Flea Market
The ethnographic case study presented in this article illustrates the institutional complexity and sociocultural significance of a midwestern American flea market. A conception of market place structure and function that incorporates informal and festive dimensions of consumer behavior is advanced. The article explores the relationship of primary and secondary economic activity. Buyer and seller behavior, marketplace ambience, the social embedded…
Speaking of Art as Embodied Imagination: A Multisensory Approach to Understanding Aesthetic Experience
This article focuses on somatic experience—not just the process of thinking bodily but how the body informs the logic of thinking about art. We examine the links between embodiment, movement, and multisensory experience insofar as they help to elucidate the contours of art appreciation in a museum. We argue that embodiment can be identified at two levels: the phenomenological and the cognitive unconscious. At the first level, individuals are cons…
Disentangling the paradoxical alliances between art market and art world
The relationship between art and market can be rendered visible only by closely examining the actions of contemporary artists, art critics, and writers, and the efforts of gallery and auction house merchandisers. A market orientation is just one way of evaluating the activities of the art world. Art and market are not reducible to each other, no matter the prevailing ideology. While the market operates on a narrative that valorizes the latest tre…
Ludic Agency and Retail Spectacle
Spectacular, themed environments have been theorized as places where play is limited and consumer agency is overpowered. In a multiperspectival ethnographic engagement with ESPN Zone Chicago, we find consumers resisting the rules, but only to a limited degree. Spectacular consumption possesses a do-it-yourself quality unrecognized in prior theory. Technology and screens are important to this form of play, which exhibits a transcendent character b…
Framing considerations in the prc: Creating Value in the Contemporary Chinese Art Market
This study of art galleries in the Peoples’ Republic of China (PRC) uses a political economy approach to examine the contours of the art world and the art market. A Chinese art market based on the Western and Japanese models was created in the early twentieth century, but was abolished in 1949 when the PRC, under Chairman Mao, adopted a socialist framing model on a national scale. Breaking out of this totalizing frame was difficult despite the ad…
Sociology (6 works) · Art (4 works) · Business (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works)