Department of Marketing

 

Date of this Version

2016

Citation

Published in Journal of Macromarketing 36:2 (June 2016), pp 149-167. doi 10.1177/0276146715576202

Comments

Copyright © Michaela Haase, Ingrid Becker, Alexander Nill, Clifford J. Shultz II, and James W. Gentry; published by SAGE Publications. Used by permission.

Abstract

A pattern found in many marketing systems, “male breadwinning,” is contingent upon overlapping and shared ideologies, which influence the economic organization and thus the type and number of relationships in those systems. Implementing a mixed-methods research methodology, this article continues and extends previous work in macromarketing on the interplay of markets, ideology, socio-economic organization, and family. A qualitative study illuminated the main ideologies behind male breadwinning and a model was developed to advance the theoretical analysis of the phenomenon of male breadwinning. An experiment in the form of a vignette study was subsequently designed and administered. The qualitative study and the vignette study both show ideologies interact in the way individuals make sense of them or allow them to influence their decisions. The results have implications for the way families and markets are organized, such as the supply of labor of men and women and the offerings of care-related public and private services in a broader marketing system.

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