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In mathematics a product is the result of multiplication, and the word stretches to a family of constructions that behave like multiplication. Two integers give a product; two sets give a Cartesian product; two groups give a direct product; two vectors give an inner product. Mac Lane, in Categories for the Working Mathematician, gives the general form: a product is an object equipped with projections that is universal among all such objects, which recovers the Cartesian and direct products as special cases. The referent is an object fixed entirely by the inputs and the rule, with no maker and no market. The inner product is a cousin that shares the name while mapping to scalars rather than forming a pair, a reminder that even inside one field the word splits.[1]
In marketing a product is anything that can be offered to a market to satisfy a want or need, one of the four elements of the marketing mix alongside price, place, and promotion. Kotler and Keller, in Marketing Management, define it broadly enough to cover goods, services, experiences, and ideas, and describe it in layers from the core benefit out to the augmented offering. The referent is a planned market offering, something a firm designs, positions, and sells, judged by whether it meets a customer want. This is not the result of an arithmetic operation and not a substance left by a reaction; it is a bundle of value assembled to be exchanged.[2]
In cultural studies a cultural product is a symbolic good that circulates as a commodity: a film, a song, or a book made and sold within an industry. Hirsch, in the American Journal of Sociology, analysed cultural industry systems as organization sets that convert creative work into marketable items, filtering many candidates down to the few that reach the public. The referent is a work treated as a commodity, valued at once for its meaning and for its exchange, and shaped by the firms that select and promote it. It overlaps the marketing meaning, since both are offered for sale, but here the emphasis falls on culture turned into merchandise rather than on an offering meeting a want.[3]
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