Market researchers observe that the culture & subculture have an affect on consumers. Subcultures are smaller groups within a culture with different views and behaviors that marketing professionals need to look out for.
Culture is a society’s “personality.” It covers a wide range of topics, including language, customs and traditions, norms and laws, religion, art and music, and so on. It also encompasses people’s hobbies, work habits, and orientations. As well as their personalities views on a variety of topics, both general and specific. Culture accurately defines a society’s dos and don’ts, as well as everything that is acceptable, and everything else isn’t. It reflects values and views broadly held by the public members of a social group. Members of a society subscribe to a variety of values, beliefs, and ideologies. The culture of a civilization gains strength as a result of these norms. This isn’t to say that civilizations aren’t diverse.
Every society is made up of smaller sub-units that are homogeneous within itself. Outside is diverse, resulting in a complicated civilization when placed together. Sub-cultures are such sub-units or sub-groups; persons within sub-cultures have separate values, beliefs, practices, and traditions, for example. A subculture’s members share values and ideas, as well as practices and traditions, that distinguish them from those from other subcultures.
Culture and subculture by themselves as well as together determine the way a certain demographic behaves. Therefore, consumer behavior is affected and to some extend formed within the boundaries of a culture (and subculture).
They are not rigid; rather, they adapt and change.
