Grandtravel, a growing but under-researched aspect of family tourism, appears to be a rich site for exploring temporal and emotional dimensions of tourism. This interpretive study draws on interviews with grandparents and grandchildren in Denmark and New Zealand to explore the meanings, emotions and experiences associated with grandtravel. In both contexts, we suggest that this particular form of family holiday contributed to individual and intergenerational wellbeing. Specifically, we characterise grandtravel as offering fun time, finite time and also legacy time. Each time was associated with particular affective flows including joy; loss and acceptance; and hope and confidence. These affective flows fostered playmate, poignant and continuing bonds between grandparents and grandchildren, contributing to their wellbeing in multiple ways.
This exploratory qualitative research uses the United Kingdom as a case study to understand how past and present financial socialization agents have either enhanced or inhibited emerging adults' financial capability in order to highlight potential opportunities for future policy and practice interventions. Three primary socialization agents were identified. The family as trusted primary advisor continues well into adulthood, even where family financial capability may be low. Beyond this, emerging adults only reluctantly engage with their bank, rely on just-in-time experiential learning or selfsocialize via diving, often with false confidence, into the internet. Although there are many quantitative studies on financial socialization, this paper fills a gap by taking a deeply qualitative approach showing, for the first time, empirically highlighting the limited number of financial socialization agents through the voices of emerging adults. The findings contradict previous socialization research that suggests parental socialization reduces into adulthood.
K E Y W O R D Sconsumer socialization, emerging/young adulthood, financial capability, financial socialization, self-socialization, transitions
Business School. Following more than twenty years as a marketing practitioner, consultant and teacher, her interest in research led her to take up a full-time academic post and a PhD at Edinburgh, exploring the role of personal technologies in extended family life. Her current interests also include experiences of liminality among emerging adults and financial socialisation of children. Caroline has presented her work at international conferences and combines her academic and professional experience by writing case studies.
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PurposeAcquiring 'Likes' for a political party or candidate's Facebook pages is important for political marketers. For consumers these 'Likes' are conspicuous, making their political affiliation visible to their network. Our study examines the roles of the undesired socialself and visibility (conspicuous vs. inconspicuous) in predicting consumers' intention to 'Like' political brands. We extend knowledge on the undesired social-self, transference of theory from general marketing to a political domain and provide practical advice for political marketers engaging social network sites.
Design/methodology/approachWe gather data from two surveys run with Facebook using electorates in the run up to the UK 2015 and US 2016 elections (n = 1,205) on their intention to 'Like' political brands under different visibility conditions.
FindingsData supports the theorized relationship of the undesired social-self with social anxiety intention to 'Like' when 'Liking' is conspicuous. However also indicates that all users -irrespective of proximity to the undesired social-self -prefer to 'Like' inconspicuously.
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Research limitations/implicationThe research is limited by the generalizability of the specific context and the use of selfreport measures.
Practical implicationsPolitical marketers should reconsider promoting conspicuous consumption for that which is more inconspicuous.
OriginalityWe provide the first examination of the undesired social-self in driving behavior under different visibility conditions. Furthermore we challenge the extension of existing knowledge of the self-concept within political marketing, based on the 'norm' for consumers' to avoid disclosing political views publically.
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