Needs and Marketing

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Needs and Marketing Throughout the years some basic needs became so standard for us, western world consumers, that other types of needs, such as self-development, became increasingly popular. Nowadays it is a normality for young teenagers to have a mobile phone, where as when we were 13 years old most of us never even heard of a mobile phone. This was never initially a basic human need, yet nowadays mobile phones are as much part of our lives as regularly eating food. Is marketing the cause of these new needs? Can we even call them new needs, or is something else going on? In order to answer these questions we first need to know what a ‘’need’’ exactly is. If we take a social-psychological approach, we will find ourselves at the doorsteps of the Maslow pyramid. This theory states that people rank their priorities based on their psychological needs. Imagine the theory as a pyramid like shape with at the very bottom the needs such as food, shelter and clothing and at the very top we have self-actualization needs such as self-development. In order for an individual to fulfill a need, ...

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