Eric J Arnould

Biographic Data

ID3618166
NAMEEric J Arnould
GIVEN NAMESEric J
FAMILY NAMEArnould
SIGNATUREARNOULD E J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Wyoming
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS45
TOTAL CITATIONS1300
AUTHOR COUNT44
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1979
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX14

  • Consumer Culture Theory

    E Arnould, Eric J Arnould et al.CHAPTEROxford Handbook of Consumption2019

    Consumer culture theory (CCT) refers to a heteroglossic assemblage of theoretical perspectives and methodological orientations that seeks to illuminate the dynamic, interactive relationships among consumer actions, marketplace systems, cultural meanings, and broader sociostructural forces, such as socialization in class and gender practices and ideologies. This chapter traces out the historical evolution of CCT and the four major domains of theor…

  • Stress, affluence and sustainable consumption

    E Arnould, Eric J ArnouldARTICLEConsumption Markets & Culture2019References: 8

  • Consumer Movements and Collective Creativity: The Case of Restaurant Day

    Open AccessHenri Weijo, Henri A Weijo et al.ARTICLEJournal of Consumer Research2018Cited by: 22References: 63

    Consumer movements are resolute and persistent efforts by organized consumer collectives to reimagine elements of consumer culture. Such movements often use creative public performances to promote their causes and to make movement participation more ludic and fun. However, collective creativity within consumer movements has rarely been an explicit focus of research. Using ethnographic methods and assemblage theory, this study elaborates how colle…

  • The new geography of capitalism: Firms, Finance and Society

    E Arnould, Eric J ArnouldARTICLEConsumption Markets & Culture2018

    This book's title concisely describes its subject matter – an economic geographer's take on recent trends in the globalization of finance and its effects on firms, economic regions, and especially

  • Ruminations on the current state of consumer ethnography

    Robert V Kozinets, E Arnould et al.CHAPTERRoutledge Handbook on Consumption2017

    This chapter shows how researchers are using new topographies, technologies, and technocultural rituals and routines in order to reconceptualize what market actors are and do, and most especially, how they should be studied. Consumers, communications and consumption are all swept up in an anthropocenic streaming and scaping of various sorts, but particularly in our current time as regards the technological. The chapter focuses on an ethnographic …

  • Living in Business Schools, Writing Consumer Culture

    E Arnould, Eric J Arnould et al.CHAPTERHandbook of Anthropology in…2016

  • Rethinking Old Thoughts

    Open AccessE Arnould, Eric J ArnouldARTICLEJournal of Business Anthropology2016

    International audience

  • Why do the Indians Wear Adidas? Or, Culture Contact and the Relations of Consumption

    Open AccessR Wilk, Richard R Wilk et al.ARTICLEJournal of Business Anthropology2016

    The study of the consumption of goods has never achieved the prominence in anthropology of either production or exchange. Yet the accelerating consumption of western goods in non-western societies is one of the most obtrusive cultural and economic trends of the last three centuries. This article addresses the general issue of why goods flow between cultural groups by re-examining the concept of consumption. It raises questions of importance to st…

  • Mise au point: Du Concept De « Partage » À La Mutualité en « Consumer Research

    E Arnould, Eric J Arnould et al.ARTICLERevue du MAUSS2014References: 26

    Le concept, récemment introduit, de partage entre les consommateurs est présenté comme une distribution non réciproque et prosociale de ressources données sans échange récent ni attente de réciprocité. La volonté d'élaborer des critères permettant de différencier le partage de l'échange marchand et du don dans le contexte de la culture des consommateurs est sans nul doute séduisante. Elle répond à une crainte envahissante, évidente chez les cherc…

  • Productive Consumption in the Class-Mediated Construction of Domestic Masculinity: Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Home Improvement in Men's Identity Work

    Risto Moisio, E Arnould et al.ARTICLEJournal of Consumer Research2013Cited by: 61References: 77

    In the context of do-it-yourself (DIY) home improvement, this article extends theorizing on productive consumption, domestic masculinity, and social class. Based on interviews with informants varying in cultural capital endowments, the findings reveal that productive consumption shapes domestic masculinity in relation to class-mediated identity conflicts and ideals. Among high-cultural-capital (HCC) informants, DIY home improvement counters the b…

  • Liquid Relationship to Possessions

    Open AccessFleura Bardhi, G M Eckhardt et al.ARTICLEJournal of Consumer Research2012Cited by: 43References: 53

    This study investigates consumers' relationship to possessions in the condition of contemporary global nomadism. Prior research argues that consumers form enduring and strong attachments to possessions because of their centrality to identity projects. This role is heightened in life transitions including cross-border movements as possessions anchor consumer's identities either to their homeland or to the host country. This study reexamines this c…

  • Gettysburg re-imagined: The Role of Narrative Imagination in Consumption Experience

    Athinodoros Chronis, E Arnould et al.ARTICLEConsumption Markets & Culture2012Cited by: 19References: 47

    We investigate the role of imagination in the consumption experience and we theorize the ways in which important collective narratives are (re)imagined at storyscapes - consumption spaces where narratives are the focal object of consumption. We ground our empirical investigation in the historical narrative of the American Civil War and we explore ethnographically the ways in which this historical episode is (re)imagined and articulated in tourism…

  • How Does Organizational Identification Form? A Consumer Behavior Perspective

    Melea Pre, Melea Press et al.ARTICLEJournal of Consumer Research2011Cited by: 9References: 41

    This article takes a consumer behavior perspective to investigate how constituents come to identify with organizations. Using longitudinal and cross-sectional interview data collected in two contexts (one consumer and one employee), the data illustrate that constituents engage with two conduits, one formal and one informal. These conduits provide opportunities for sensegiving, which features normative elements particular to an organization, and s…

  • Does Fair Trade Deliver on Its Core Value Proposition? Effects on Income, Educational Attainment, and Health in Three Countries

    Open AccessE Arnould, Eric J Arnould et al.ARTICLEJournal of Public Policy &…2009

    Alternative trade organizations (ATOs) based on philosophies of social justice and/or environmental well-being are establishing new channels of trade and marketing. Partisans promote ATOs as systems to transfer benefits from consumers in the wealthy northern hemisphere to producers in the poor southern hemisphere. The central public policy question is whether the well-being of poor agricultural producers in the southern hemisphere is actually bei…

  • How Brand Community Practices Create Value

    Open AccessHope Jensen Schau, Albert M Muniz et al.ARTICLEJournal of Marketing2009

    Using social practice theory, this article reveals the process of collective value creation within brand communities. Moving beyond a single case study, the authors examine previously published research in conjunction with data collected in nine brand communities comprising a variety of product categories, and they identify a common set of value-creating practices. Practices have an “anatomy” consisting of (1) general procedural understandings an…

  • Should Consumer Citizens Escape the Market

    Open AccessE Arnould, Eric J ArnouldARTICLEThe Annals of the American…2007Cited by: 40References: 60

    This article uses a sociological perspective to question the validity of critiques of consumer culture. First, the author examines the debate over whether consumers possess true freedom of action, reviewing problems critics find in the notion of “agency.” Second, the author proposes that anticonsumption ideology is class-based, anachronistic, and sometimes confuses consumption with materiality. Third, the author examines what it may mean to “esca…

  • Consumer Culture Theory (CCT): Twenty Years of Research

    E Arnould, Eric J Arnould et al.ARTICLEJournal of Consumer Research2005Cited by: 440References: 30

    This article provides a synthesizing overview of the past 20 yr. of consumer research addressing the sociocultural, experiential, symbolic, and ideological aspects of consumption. Our aim is to provide a viable disciplinary brand for this research tradition that we call consumer culture theory (CCT). We propose that CCT has fulfilled recurrent calls for developing a distinctive body of theoretical knowledge about consumption and marketplace behav…

  • Postassimilationist Ethnic Consumer Research: Qualifications and Extensions

    Askegaard, Soren Askegaard et al.ARTICLEJournal of Consumer Research2005Cited by: 44References: 9

    Data collected among Greenlandic immigrants in Denmark fuel a critical examination of the postassimilationist model of ethnic consumer behavior in a non–North American context. We find that Greenlandic consumer acculturation is broadly supportive of the postassimilationist model. However, acculturative processes in the Danish context lead immigrants to adopt identity positions not entirely consistent with those reported in previous postassimilati…

  • How Individuals' Cherished Possessions Become Families' Inalienable Wealth

    Carolyn Folkman Curasi, Lisa Leimar Price et al.ARTICLEJournal of Consumer Research2004Cited by: 70References: 8

    This article examines a special category of objects, things that people should not give or sell, but keep from generation to generation within the close confines of a group-inalienable wealth. Previous findings about inalienable wealth are restricted to studies of indigenous cultures by anthropologists. We explore whether and how objects pass from alienable to inalienable status across generations of middle-class North American families. Our rese…

  • Introduction to the Special Issue

    Open AccessE Arnould, Eric J ArnouldARTICLEJournal of Contemporary Ethnography2001Cited by: 1

  • Older Consumers' Disposition of Special Possessions

    Lisa Leimar Price, Linda L Price et al.ARTICLEJournal of Consumer Research2000Cited by: 60References: 50

    This article explores precipitating events, emotions, and decisions associated with older consumers' disposition of special possessions. Findings are based on analyses of semistructured interviews with 80 older consumers, complemented by depth interviews with seven informants. Cherished possessions and their disposition play a significant role in older consumers' reminiscence and life review. Concerns about disposition of special possessions invo…

  • Commercial Friendships: Service Provider-Client Relationships in Context

    Lisa Leimar Price, Linda L Price et al.ARTICLEJournal of Marketing1999

    The authors describe commercial friendships that develop between service providers and clients as one important type of marketing relationship. They report results of five studies that employ quant...

  • Cherished Possessions

    Open AccessE Arnould, Eric J Arnould et al.ARTICLEAnthropology News1999Cited by: 1

    Tell you what, I go to estate sales all the time. And when I go, every time I go, I realize that I have to do something. I must get rid of what I have. It is so sad [stresses the word sad] and there are these beautiful items that are being sold. And I think of these people; and of how they must have felt. They had all of this, and it meant so much to them. So, every time I go, I think that's not going to happen to me."-Iris (78, married

  • Making Magic Consumption: A Study of White-Water River Rafting

    Open AccessE Arnould, Eric J Arnould et al.ARTICLEJournal of Contemporary Ethnography1999Cited by: 25References: 24

    Recourse to magic is a universal strategy for trying to resolve intractable social problems. Within the context of white-water river rafting, the authors illustrate the conjunction of elements (condition of the performer, rite, and formula) that make magical experience possible in a constructed consumption setting. They show how "river magic," like all magic, concerns itself with the relationship between humans and the world, how it activates cer…

  • Writing the differences: Poststructural ist pluralism, retextualization, and the construction of reflexive ethnographic narratives in consumption and market research

    Craig J Thompson, Barbara B Stern et al.ARTICLEConsumption Markets & Culture1998Cited by: 11References: 52

    Representing social realities in a narrative form is central to the interpretive processes by which market‐oriented ethnographies are constructed. In recent years, the process of textualization has shifted from a taken‐for‐granted aspect of the ethnographic enterprise to a central focus of ethnographers’ reflexive considerations. This shift reflects the realization that textualization poses dilemmas of representation that can not be resolved thro…