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Elements of Culture
Five elements of culture:
-Values.
-Rituals.
-Symbols.
-Beliefs.
-Thought.
Marketers must design 4 Ps with due consideration of each of the five elements.
Each of the cultural elements must be evaluated in light of how they might affect a
proposed marketing program.
Cultural Change
Culture is dynamic in nature- a living process.
That cultural change is constant is paradoxical because it is conservative and
resists to change.
Cultural change:
-By war, like the change in Japan after World War II.
-By natural disaster.
-By seeking ways to solve the problems created by change in envt.
-By accident.
-By borrowing.
-By acculturation.