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A) Relevance of Market Research with

Consumer Behavior
4) Relation Btw Market Research and Consumer Behavior
What does customer buy, why he buys, when he buys, from where he
buys, how much he buy and how often he buys ( Here we see close
relation between Consumer Behavior and Market Research).
Market Research >>>> Understand and Predict Consumer Behavior
Marketing Research helps/Leads to Consumer Research

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A) Relevance of Market Research with
Consumer Behavior
5) Market Research Vs Consumer Research
1) Market Research is broad and macro and Consumer Research is
very specific and micro.
2) Objectives: Market research wants to study marketing
environment and customers who are a part of it. Consumer
Research want to study consumer as a person or groups.
3) Focus: In Market Research focus is To Identify opportunities and
treats in environment, to study market and forecast potential but,
in Consumer Research focus is on understanding Consumer
Behavior.
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B) Approaches to Consumer Behavior
Research
• We have two approaches
1. Traditional Approaches
• Positivist
• Interpretivist
2. Current/Modern/Dialectical Approaches
• Materialism
• Change
• Totality
• Contradiction

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