Mihalcea, Raluca; Catoiu, Iacob - In: Annales Universitatis Apulensis Series Oeconomica 2 (2008) 10, pp. 50-50
In a consumer culture people no longer consume for merely functional satisfaction,but consumption becomes meaning-based, and brands are often used as symbolic resources for theconstruction and maintenance of identity. All human behavior is a symbolic action. People are notjust choosing the best,...