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    Cross cultural differences in materialism
    (Elsevier, 1996) Ger, G.; Belk, R. W.
    Materialism was explored in twelve countries using qualitative data, measures of consumer desires, measures of perceived necessities, and adapted versions of the Belk (1985) materialism scales with student samples. The use of student samples and provisionary evidence for cross-cultural reliability and validity for the scales, make the quantitative results tentative, but they produced some interesting patterns that were also supported by the qualitative data. Romanians were found to be the most materialistic, followed by the U.S.A., New Zealand, Ukraine, Germany, and Turkey. These results suggest that materialism is neither unique to the West nor directly related to affluence, contrary to what has been assumed in prior treatments of the development of consumer culture.
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    Malls and the orchestration of the shopping experience in a historical perspective
    (Association for Consumer Research, 1999) Csaba, F. F.; Askegaard, S.
    This paper discusses the founding principles and the historical development of the American mall, with a particular emphasis on the designs and writings of Victor Gruen, architect of the first mall. It does so in order to shed light upon the importance of the orchestration of shoppingexperiences, which traditionally hasbeen neglected in consumer research. Our focuson the orchestration also illuminates a discussion between postmodern theorists in consumer research accused by somecritics for lackofempirical foundation.The traditional suggestion is to engage in consumer ethnographies to examine the alleged postmodern reality of consumers. We, however, suggest that an ethnography of the orchestration efforts are of equal importance for an understanding of the present shopping and consumer environment. We conclude by advocating more emphasison macro-level institutional aspectsof the production-consumption interaction in interpretive consumer research.