Social representation of fair price among professional photographers

PLoS One. 2020 Dec 22;15(12):e0243547. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0243547. eCollection 2020.

Abstract

We investigated the social representation of fair price of French and English-speaking photographers using the free association method. In two independent studies, we performed a factorial analysis of correspondence of the words provided by the participants as well as a similitude analysis. The results indicated that "fair price" was mainly associated with time, effort and experience level of photographers. Both French- and English-speaking samples made similar associations around the concept of fair price but the order of importance varied. We observed some gender-related differences in both samples, although the relative number of male and female participants must be taken into consideration.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Commerce / ethics*
  • Commerce / trends
  • Female
  • France
  • Humans
  • Language
  • Linguistics / methods
  • Male
  • Marketing / ethics
  • Marketing / methods
  • Marketing / trends
  • Middle Aged
  • Photography / economics*
  • Professionalism / economics*
  • Professionalism / ethics
  • Surveys and Questionnaires

Grants and funding

Funded study This research was financed by Julien Jacob and Thibaud Lemonnier who own the OCS company. URL: https://www.ocus.com/en/ They also played a role in the design and in the decision of publishing the results. They did not have had any influence in the analysis, discussion or the discussion of the results. The following co-authors received grant to do this research: CF,TL, LR, CO, VC. The grant number: Erganeo-Q84. Here are the contributions and role played by each author: Ideas, formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims: TL, CF, VC, TL and JJ. Data Curation, management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later reuse: CF. Formal Analysis Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data: CF. Funding Acquisition, acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication. TL, JJ. Investigation, conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection: LR, CO and VC. Methodology Development or design of methodology; creation of models: CF. Project Administration, management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, TL. Resources, provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools: TL and VC. Software, programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components: CF. Supervision, oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team: TL. Validation, verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs. CYRILLE Visualization Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation: CF. Writing – Original Draft Preparation Creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation). CL, CO, LR. Writing – Review & Editing Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work by those from the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary or revision – including pre- or post-publication stages. CF, LR, CO, JJ, TL, TL.