Ian Rees Jones
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861348821
- eISBN:
- 9781447301431
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861348821.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gerontology and Ageing
Targeted as ‘grey consumers’, people retiring now participated in the creation of the post-war consumer culture. These consumers have grown older, but have not stopped consuming. Based on extensive ...
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Targeted as ‘grey consumers’, people retiring now participated in the creation of the post-war consumer culture. These consumers have grown older, but have not stopped consuming. Based on extensive analysis over two years, this book examines the engagement of older people with consumer society in Britain since the 1960s. It charts the changes in the experience of later life in the UK over the last fifty years, the rise of the ‘individualised consumer citizen’ and what this means for health and social policies.Less
Targeted as ‘grey consumers’, people retiring now participated in the creation of the post-war consumer culture. These consumers have grown older, but have not stopped consuming. Based on extensive analysis over two years, this book examines the engagement of older people with consumer society in Britain since the 1960s. It charts the changes in the experience of later life in the UK over the last fifty years, the rise of the ‘individualised consumer citizen’ and what this means for health and social policies.
Patrick Hyder Patterson
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801450044
- eISBN:
- 9780801463631
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801450044.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter examines the mainstream Marxist critique of the contradictions of consumerism in Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia was heading toward the creation of a capitalist-style “consumer society” by the ...
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This chapter examines the mainstream Marxist critique of the contradictions of consumerism in Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia was heading toward the creation of a capitalist-style “consumer society” by the late 1960s. However, the move toward consumerism did not go unchallenged. Instead, consumer culture and the advertising and marketing that propelled it encountered, early on, staunch and ardent resistance. This chapter considers the place of Marxism in issues surrounding commercial promotion and its role in fashioning popular culture. In particular, it analyzes the arguments of Marxist social critics that consumerism and market culture were among the most important “internal enemies” of Yugoslav socialism. It also discusses Marxist criticisms of the so-called Homo consumens and critics' sustained rhetorical campaign against consumerism. It shows that Yugoslavia's distinctive consumer culture and the commercial promotion that sustained it gave rise to a different sort of egalitarianism based on participation in a new Yugoslav Dream, one rooted in consumption.Less
This chapter examines the mainstream Marxist critique of the contradictions of consumerism in Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia was heading toward the creation of a capitalist-style “consumer society” by the late 1960s. However, the move toward consumerism did not go unchallenged. Instead, consumer culture and the advertising and marketing that propelled it encountered, early on, staunch and ardent resistance. This chapter considers the place of Marxism in issues surrounding commercial promotion and its role in fashioning popular culture. In particular, it analyzes the arguments of Marxist social critics that consumerism and market culture were among the most important “internal enemies” of Yugoslav socialism. It also discusses Marxist criticisms of the so-called Homo consumens and critics' sustained rhetorical campaign against consumerism. It shows that Yugoslavia's distinctive consumer culture and the commercial promotion that sustained it gave rise to a different sort of egalitarianism based on participation in a new Yugoslav Dream, one rooted in consumption.
Michael Clarke
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847423986
- eISBN:
- 9781447301622
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847423986.003.0004
- Subject:
- Sociology, Politics, Social Movements and Social Change
This chapter provides substantive consideration of where choice in its modern ideological and institutional form comes from, and the place of choice in a consumer society. It discusses how ...
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This chapter provides substantive consideration of where choice in its modern ideological and institutional form comes from, and the place of choice in a consumer society. It discusses how industrialisation has paved the way for constant development of technology, thus producing an economy, and a society based upon it, in which change is seen as inevitable, continuous, and beneficial. It also explores the political consequences of industrialisation and the complications that arose with industrial market capitalism. It explains the two strategies that could remedy the defects in the market based industrial economy, capitalism — the socialist and the social democratic. It examines the importance of the new Right which lies in its capacity to recognise the direction of change, and to be seen to be capitalising on its advantages. It evaluates the politics of consumerist choice and describes credit as an institution central to the continued growth of consumer society.Less
This chapter provides substantive consideration of where choice in its modern ideological and institutional form comes from, and the place of choice in a consumer society. It discusses how industrialisation has paved the way for constant development of technology, thus producing an economy, and a society based upon it, in which change is seen as inevitable, continuous, and beneficial. It also explores the political consequences of industrialisation and the complications that arose with industrial market capitalism. It explains the two strategies that could remedy the defects in the market based industrial economy, capitalism — the socialist and the social democratic. It examines the importance of the new Right which lies in its capacity to recognise the direction of change, and to be seen to be capitalising on its advantages. It evaluates the politics of consumerist choice and describes credit as an institution central to the continued growth of consumer society.
William J. Ashworth
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199259212
- eISBN:
- 9780191717918
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199259212.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History, Economic History
This book traces the growth of customs and excise, and their integral role in shaping the framework of industrial England; including state power, technical advance, and the evolution of a consumer ...
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This book traces the growth of customs and excise, and their integral role in shaping the framework of industrial England; including state power, technical advance, and the evolution of a consumer society. Central to this structure was the development of two economies — one legal and one illicit. If there was a unique English pathway of industrialization, it was less a distinct entrepreneurial and techno-centric culture, than one predominantly defined within an institutional framework spearheaded by the excise and a wall of tariffs. This process reached its peak by the end of the 1770s. The structure then quickly started to crumble under the weight of the fiscal-military state, and Pitt's calculated policy of concentrating industrial policy around cotton, potteries, and iron — at the expense of other taxed industries. The breakthrough of the new political economy was the erosion of the illicit economy; the smugglers' free trade now became the state's most powerful weapon in the war against non-legal trade. If at the beginning of the period covered by this book state administration was predominantly deregulated and industry regulated, by the close the reverse was the case.Less
This book traces the growth of customs and excise, and their integral role in shaping the framework of industrial England; including state power, technical advance, and the evolution of a consumer society. Central to this structure was the development of two economies — one legal and one illicit. If there was a unique English pathway of industrialization, it was less a distinct entrepreneurial and techno-centric culture, than one predominantly defined within an institutional framework spearheaded by the excise and a wall of tariffs. This process reached its peak by the end of the 1770s. The structure then quickly started to crumble under the weight of the fiscal-military state, and Pitt's calculated policy of concentrating industrial policy around cotton, potteries, and iron — at the expense of other taxed industries. The breakthrough of the new political economy was the erosion of the illicit economy; the smugglers' free trade now became the state's most powerful weapon in the war against non-legal trade. If at the beginning of the period covered by this book state administration was predominantly deregulated and industry regulated, by the close the reverse was the case.
George Ritzer
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199873722
- eISBN:
- 9780199980000
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199873722.003.0003
- Subject:
- Law, Company and Commercial Law
This chapter addresses the role played by consumer society and consumer culture in the growth of the debt problem. The fundamental argument is based on the fact that American society, specifically ...
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This chapter addresses the role played by consumer society and consumer culture in the growth of the debt problem. The fundamental argument is based on the fact that American society, specifically its economy, underwent a change from a society dominated by production to one in which consumption rivaled, or exceeded, production in importance. This shift to consumption—or “hyper” consumption—is not fueled solely by the foibles of individual consumers themselves. Industry and government alike have manipulated consumers to the end of promoting consumption, and “cathedrals of consumption” (e.g., casinos, shopping malls, and theme parks) sprang up after World War II and lured consumers into consuming what they did not even realize they needed—because in fact they did not. Finally, the chapter explores contexts for “hyper” developments, namely, capitalism, the manipulation of time and space in contemporary capitalism, and globalization.Less
This chapter addresses the role played by consumer society and consumer culture in the growth of the debt problem. The fundamental argument is based on the fact that American society, specifically its economy, underwent a change from a society dominated by production to one in which consumption rivaled, or exceeded, production in importance. This shift to consumption—or “hyper” consumption—is not fueled solely by the foibles of individual consumers themselves. Industry and government alike have manipulated consumers to the end of promoting consumption, and “cathedrals of consumption” (e.g., casinos, shopping malls, and theme parks) sprang up after World War II and lured consumers into consuming what they did not even realize they needed—because in fact they did not. Finally, the chapter explores contexts for “hyper” developments, namely, capitalism, the manipulation of time and space in contemporary capitalism, and globalization.
Patrick Hyder Patterson
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801450044
- eISBN:
- 9780801463631
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801450044.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter explores what the movement toward consumerism meant for the making and unmaking of the Yugoslav experiment in reformist socialism and multiethnic comity. It shows how consumerism gave ...
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This chapter explores what the movement toward consumerism meant for the making and unmaking of the Yugoslav experiment in reformist socialism and multiethnic comity. It shows how consumerism gave rise to a new New Class whose membership was predicated upon participation in a modern style of mass consumption, a complex of behaviors, tastes, and attitudes that in many respects resembled those seen in the classic Western sites of contemporary consumer society. It also considers how popular consumer culture, paired with the market culture cultivated by the new business elites, became a defining feature of Yugoslav daily life. Finally, it examines the nature of the consumerist New Class and its implications for the final stage of downturn and disillusionment in Yugoslavia caused by the contradictions of consumerism and the end of the Yugoslav Dream.Less
This chapter explores what the movement toward consumerism meant for the making and unmaking of the Yugoslav experiment in reformist socialism and multiethnic comity. It shows how consumerism gave rise to a new New Class whose membership was predicated upon participation in a modern style of mass consumption, a complex of behaviors, tastes, and attitudes that in many respects resembled those seen in the classic Western sites of contemporary consumer society. It also considers how popular consumer culture, paired with the market culture cultivated by the new business elites, became a defining feature of Yugoslav daily life. Finally, it examines the nature of the consumerist New Class and its implications for the final stage of downturn and disillusionment in Yugoslavia caused by the contradictions of consumerism and the end of the Yugoslav Dream.
Patrick Hyder Patterson
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801450044
- eISBN:
- 9780801463631
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801450044.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter examines the unorthodox socialist critique of consumer culture developed by a group of revisionist Marxists skeptical of—and even openly antagonistic toward—the market-oriented premises ...
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This chapter examines the unorthodox socialist critique of consumer culture developed by a group of revisionist Marxists skeptical of—and even openly antagonistic toward—the market-oriented premises (and promises) of self-management socialism in Yugoslavia. More specifically, it considers the disapproval that issued continually from a circle of critics aligned with Praxis, a sociologically oriented journal that functioned as a major outlet for left-wing Marxist-humanist thought. The chapter first discusses the Praxis critique of capitalism, and especially consumerism and its hedonistic-utilitarian culture. It then considers the journal's position regarding the threat of consumerism to socialism, with particular emphasis on its critique of market culture and self-management. It also assesses the implications of the New Left critique of consumerism and the Praxisrevisionists' indictment of consumer society, which it argues could also be seen as a challenge to the fundamental direction of Yugoslav society and the legitimacy of those in power.Less
This chapter examines the unorthodox socialist critique of consumer culture developed by a group of revisionist Marxists skeptical of—and even openly antagonistic toward—the market-oriented premises (and promises) of self-management socialism in Yugoslavia. More specifically, it considers the disapproval that issued continually from a circle of critics aligned with Praxis, a sociologically oriented journal that functioned as a major outlet for left-wing Marxist-humanist thought. The chapter first discusses the Praxis critique of capitalism, and especially consumerism and its hedonistic-utilitarian culture. It then considers the journal's position regarding the threat of consumerism to socialism, with particular emphasis on its critique of market culture and self-management. It also assesses the implications of the New Left critique of consumerism and the Praxisrevisionists' indictment of consumer society, which it argues could also be seen as a challenge to the fundamental direction of Yugoslav society and the legitimacy of those in power.
Patrick Hyder Patterson
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801450044
- eISBN:
- 9780801463631
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801450044.003.0010
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This book examines Yugoslavia's consumer society and its consequences for both the life and the death of the country's experiment in reformist socialism and multiethnic federalism. Yugoslavia is a ...
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This book examines Yugoslavia's consumer society and its consequences for both the life and the death of the country's experiment in reformist socialism and multiethnic federalism. Yugoslavia is a country with a system of government that many once considered to be the best of all possible socialisms: a bold and noble, if flawed, experiment in tolerance and flexibility. The results were striking and the implications profound. From the mid-1950s on the political climate in Yugoslavia permitted, and later even encouraged, the acquisition of various consumer goods and services, and the consumption of experiences like holiday getaways, moviegoing, dancing and drinking in discotheques, and foreign travel. Focusing on the socialist period from 1945 to 1991, and especially the 1960s and 1970s, this book explores the varying social, cultural, and political meanings of consumption in Yugoslavia. The goal is to understand whether consumer culture mattered in Yugoslavia, with particular emphasis on the Yugoslav vision of the Good Life and the Yugoslav Dream.Less
This book examines Yugoslavia's consumer society and its consequences for both the life and the death of the country's experiment in reformist socialism and multiethnic federalism. Yugoslavia is a country with a system of government that many once considered to be the best of all possible socialisms: a bold and noble, if flawed, experiment in tolerance and flexibility. The results were striking and the implications profound. From the mid-1950s on the political climate in Yugoslavia permitted, and later even encouraged, the acquisition of various consumer goods and services, and the consumption of experiences like holiday getaways, moviegoing, dancing and drinking in discotheques, and foreign travel. Focusing on the socialist period from 1945 to 1991, and especially the 1960s and 1970s, this book explores the varying social, cultural, and political meanings of consumption in Yugoslavia. The goal is to understand whether consumer culture mattered in Yugoslavia, with particular emphasis on the Yugoslav vision of the Good Life and the Yugoslav Dream.
Patrick Hyder Patterson
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801450044
- eISBN:
- 9780801463631
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801450044.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter examines the primary factors that shaped market culture in Yugoslavia, with particular emphasis on the role played by specialists in advertising, retailing, and marketing, and by media ...
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This chapter examines the primary factors that shaped market culture in Yugoslavia, with particular emphasis on the role played by specialists in advertising, retailing, and marketing, and by media institutions such as television and the popular press. Beginning in the mid-1950s, advertising specialists gradually turned Yugoslavia into something without parallel in the world of state socialism: a place where, on a regular basis, ordinary citizens were bombarded with advertising messages. This chapter traces the rise of a domestic advertising industry amid socialist Yugoslavia's surprising and rapid transformation into a consumer society between 1950 and 1980. It also discusses the end of the Yugoslav Dream during the period 1980–1991, triggered in large part by country's economic decline.Less
This chapter examines the primary factors that shaped market culture in Yugoslavia, with particular emphasis on the role played by specialists in advertising, retailing, and marketing, and by media institutions such as television and the popular press. Beginning in the mid-1950s, advertising specialists gradually turned Yugoslavia into something without parallel in the world of state socialism: a place where, on a regular basis, ordinary citizens were bombarded with advertising messages. This chapter traces the rise of a domestic advertising industry amid socialist Yugoslavia's surprising and rapid transformation into a consumer society between 1950 and 1980. It also discusses the end of the Yugoslav Dream during the period 1980–1991, triggered in large part by country's economic decline.
Patrick Hyder Patterson
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801450044
- eISBN:
- 9780801463631
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801450044.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter examines how Josip Broz Tito and Yugoslavia's state authorities responded to the capitalist-style consumer society that emerged in the late 1960s. Socialist critics challenged the new ...
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This chapter examines how Josip Broz Tito and Yugoslavia's state authorities responded to the capitalist-style consumer society that emerged in the late 1960s. Socialist critics challenged the new Yugoslav culture of commercialism and the promotional activities that were driving it. However, the Yugoslav political-administrative establishment had produced surprisingly little in the way of official or even quasi-official rules or guidelines regarding these phenomena. This absence of concrete governmental measures to restrict market culture and check the perceived excesses of consumer culture is one of the most noticeable and distinctive features of the political history of consumption in Yugoslavia. This chapter argues that the state authorities' response to consumerism often did not match the intensity of the public debate, tending instead toward a pattern of fitful accommodation and resistance, with remarkable toleration punctuated by occasional ideological assaults for the purposes of discipline and restraint.Less
This chapter examines how Josip Broz Tito and Yugoslavia's state authorities responded to the capitalist-style consumer society that emerged in the late 1960s. Socialist critics challenged the new Yugoslav culture of commercialism and the promotional activities that were driving it. However, the Yugoslav political-administrative establishment had produced surprisingly little in the way of official or even quasi-official rules or guidelines regarding these phenomena. This absence of concrete governmental measures to restrict market culture and check the perceived excesses of consumer culture is one of the most noticeable and distinctive features of the political history of consumption in Yugoslavia. This chapter argues that the state authorities' response to consumerism often did not match the intensity of the public debate, tending instead toward a pattern of fitful accommodation and resistance, with remarkable toleration punctuated by occasional ideological assaults for the purposes of discipline and restraint.
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846314872
- eISBN:
- 9781846317156
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846317156.001
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
This book explores the socio-economic history of modern France as depicted in literary narratives from the end of the nineteenth century to the second half of the twentieth. It examines patterns of ...
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This book explores the socio-economic history of modern France as depicted in literary narratives from the end of the nineteenth century to the second half of the twentieth. It examines patterns of behaviour relating to shops and shopping, expenditure and consumption, focusing on novels that bear witness and give significance to the development of the French consumer society. It contextualises French literature within the socio-economic moment that gives rise to it and views each text as the centre where forces engaging with socio-economic realities converge.Less
This book explores the socio-economic history of modern France as depicted in literary narratives from the end of the nineteenth century to the second half of the twentieth. It examines patterns of behaviour relating to shops and shopping, expenditure and consumption, focusing on novels that bear witness and give significance to the development of the French consumer society. It contextualises French literature within the socio-economic moment that gives rise to it and views each text as the centre where forces engaging with socio-economic realities converge.
Ian Rees Jones, Martin Hyde, Christina R. Victor, Richard D. Wiggins, Chris Gilleard, and Paul Higgs
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861348821
- eISBN:
- 9781447301431
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861348821.003.0009
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gerontology and Ageing
This concluding chapter presents an argument that the role of the UK's ageing population in consumer society has been relatively neglected. It emphasises that the trend to earlier retirement, as well ...
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This concluding chapter presents an argument that the role of the UK's ageing population in consumer society has been relatively neglected. It emphasises that the trend to earlier retirement, as well as the relative affluence of many retired people, is an important aspect of ageing in late modern societies. The cohorts of people who are now retiring are those who participated in the creation of the post-war consumer culture. Although these consumers have grown older, they have not stopped consuming. The discussion shows that their choices and behaviour are products of the collective histories of both cohort and generation.Less
This concluding chapter presents an argument that the role of the UK's ageing population in consumer society has been relatively neglected. It emphasises that the trend to earlier retirement, as well as the relative affluence of many retired people, is an important aspect of ageing in late modern societies. The cohorts of people who are now retiring are those who participated in the creation of the post-war consumer culture. Although these consumers have grown older, they have not stopped consuming. The discussion shows that their choices and behaviour are products of the collective histories of both cohort and generation.
Steven McKevitt
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- December 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780198821700
- eISBN:
- 9780191860911
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198821700.003.0002
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Marketing
Chapter 1 looks at consumption, consumerism, and the emergence of the consumer society in Britain at the end of the twentieth century. It draws out the main academic debates concerning consumption ...
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Chapter 1 looks at consumption, consumerism, and the emergence of the consumer society in Britain at the end of the twentieth century. It draws out the main academic debates concerning consumption and its evolving role in society and explores changes in work, leisure, gender roles, family life, and living standards in the UK in the twentieth century. There follows an examination of the impact of the New Right and its ideology in Britain in the 1980s and 1990s and also the renaissance in popular culture from the 1970s, which not only helped to drive the expansion of the mass media but was also fueled by it. It concludes with an analysis of arguments presented by critics of affluence from the post-war period to the early twenty-first century. There is particular emphasis on the role of persuasion within market economies.Less
Chapter 1 looks at consumption, consumerism, and the emergence of the consumer society in Britain at the end of the twentieth century. It draws out the main academic debates concerning consumption and its evolving role in society and explores changes in work, leisure, gender roles, family life, and living standards in the UK in the twentieth century. There follows an examination of the impact of the New Right and its ideology in Britain in the 1980s and 1990s and also the renaissance in popular culture from the 1970s, which not only helped to drive the expansion of the mass media but was also fueled by it. It concludes with an analysis of arguments presented by critics of affluence from the post-war period to the early twenty-first century. There is particular emphasis on the role of persuasion within market economies.
P. S. Atiyah
- Published in print:
- 1985
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198255277
- eISBN:
- 9780191681578
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198255277.003.0017
- Subject:
- Law, Law of Obligations
This chapter examines changes in the political and economic conditions in England during the period from 1870 to 1970 and the implications of these changes for freedom of contract. During this ...
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This chapter examines changes in the political and economic conditions in England during the period from 1870 to 1970 and the implications of these changes for freedom of contract. During this period, England became immeasurably richer than it had been previously and the consumer society arrived. This gave rise to a larger number of corporations, and trade unions acquired more power over individuals and the government. On the political side, central government became a vast bureaucracy and there was a great proliferation in the variety of government's manifestations in society.Less
This chapter examines changes in the political and economic conditions in England during the period from 1870 to 1970 and the implications of these changes for freedom of contract. During this period, England became immeasurably richer than it had been previously and the consumer society arrived. This gave rise to a larger number of corporations, and trade unions acquired more power over individuals and the government. On the political side, central government became a vast bureaucracy and there was a great proliferation in the variety of government's manifestations in society.
Ian Rees Jones, Martin Hyde, Christina R. Victor, Richard D. Wiggins, Chris Gilleard, and Paul Higgs
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861348821
- eISBN:
- 9781447301431
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861348821.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gerontology and Ageing
This chapter provides some background information for studying the extent to which consumption is now a part of later life. The discussion begins by looking at the problem of studying later life in ...
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This chapter provides some background information for studying the extent to which consumption is now a part of later life. The discussion begins by looking at the problem of studying later life in the context of fast social change. It then charts the rise of mass consumer society in the United Kingdom and how this has related to the ideas of ‘generational change’. It uses recent developments in theories of high, late or second modernity in order to focus properly on the key areas of social change, as well as how these relate to the experiences of older people in society. The chapter also provides an overview of the next chapters and how they reflect and relate to the main theme of consumption.Less
This chapter provides some background information for studying the extent to which consumption is now a part of later life. The discussion begins by looking at the problem of studying later life in the context of fast social change. It then charts the rise of mass consumer society in the United Kingdom and how this has related to the ideas of ‘generational change’. It uses recent developments in theories of high, late or second modernity in order to focus properly on the key areas of social change, as well as how these relate to the experiences of older people in society. The chapter also provides an overview of the next chapters and how they reflect and relate to the main theme of consumption.
Jan L. Logemann
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226491493
- eISBN:
- 9780226491523
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226491523.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
In the years that followed World War II, both the United States and the newly formed West German republic had an opportunity to remake their economies. Since then, much has been made of the supposed ...
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In the years that followed World War II, both the United States and the newly formed West German republic had an opportunity to remake their economies. Since then, much has been made of the supposed “Americanization” of European consumer societies in Germany and elsewhere. Arguing against these foggy notions, this book takes a comparative look at the development of postwar mass consumption in West Germany and the United States and the emergence of discrete consumer modernities. It explains how the decisions made at this crucial time helped to define both of these economic superpowers in the second half of the twentieth century. While Americans splurged on private cars and bought goods on credit in suburban shopping malls, Germans rebuilt public transit and developed pedestrian shopping streets in their city centers—choices that continue to shape the quality and character of life decades later. Outlining the abundant differences in the structures of consumer society, consumer habits, and the role of public consumption in these countries, the author reveals the many subtle ways in which the spheres of government, society, and physical space define how we live.Less
In the years that followed World War II, both the United States and the newly formed West German republic had an opportunity to remake their economies. Since then, much has been made of the supposed “Americanization” of European consumer societies in Germany and elsewhere. Arguing against these foggy notions, this book takes a comparative look at the development of postwar mass consumption in West Germany and the United States and the emergence of discrete consumer modernities. It explains how the decisions made at this crucial time helped to define both of these economic superpowers in the second half of the twentieth century. While Americans splurged on private cars and bought goods on credit in suburban shopping malls, Germans rebuilt public transit and developed pedestrian shopping streets in their city centers—choices that continue to shape the quality and character of life decades later. Outlining the abundant differences in the structures of consumer society, consumer habits, and the role of public consumption in these countries, the author reveals the many subtle ways in which the spheres of government, society, and physical space define how we live.
Ian Rees Jones, Martin Hyde, Christina R. Victor, Richard D. Wiggins, Chris Gilleard, and Paul Higgs
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861348821
- eISBN:
- 9781447301431
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861348821.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gerontology and Ageing
This chapter talks about the theoretical underpinnings of the concepts of cohorts, generation, and time, while referencing the work of Mannheim and others. The analysis that is presented in this ...
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This chapter talks about the theoretical underpinnings of the concepts of cohorts, generation, and time, while referencing the work of Mannheim and others. The analysis that is presented in this chapter is based on large, standardised surveys of expenditure patterns. It is considered to be a necessary and important first step in the understanding of how later life is formed by and contributes to the formation of consumer society.Less
This chapter talks about the theoretical underpinnings of the concepts of cohorts, generation, and time, while referencing the work of Mannheim and others. The analysis that is presented in this chapter is based on large, standardised surveys of expenditure patterns. It is considered to be a necessary and important first step in the understanding of how later life is formed by and contributes to the formation of consumer society.
Patrick Hyder Patterson
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801450044
- eISBN:
- 9780801463631
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801450044.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter focuses on the spectacular transformation of Yugoslav society during the 1960s and 1970s. It considers the burgeoning culture of consumerism that began in the mid-1960s and made Yugoslav ...
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This chapter focuses on the spectacular transformation of Yugoslav society during the 1960s and 1970s. It considers the burgeoning culture of consumerism that began in the mid-1960s and made Yugoslav society quite unlike anything else in the contemporary socialist world; not much earlier, Yugoslavia's version of consumer society would have been all but unimaginable. For most of the next decade and a half Yugoslavs would enjoy a dramatic improvement in living standards and the further loosening of party control. Along with these developments came the consolidation of a vital and influential advertising and marketing industry that had emerged shortly after the reforms of the early 1950s. This chapter first provides an overview of consumption and economic policy in Yugoslavia in the years 1945–1950 before discussing the emergence of self-management socialism and the consumer shift from 1950 to 1965. It then discusses the growth of personal consumption during the period 1965–1980, along with the economic crisis that began in the late 1970s.Less
This chapter focuses on the spectacular transformation of Yugoslav society during the 1960s and 1970s. It considers the burgeoning culture of consumerism that began in the mid-1960s and made Yugoslav society quite unlike anything else in the contemporary socialist world; not much earlier, Yugoslavia's version of consumer society would have been all but unimaginable. For most of the next decade and a half Yugoslavs would enjoy a dramatic improvement in living standards and the further loosening of party control. Along with these developments came the consolidation of a vital and influential advertising and marketing industry that had emerged shortly after the reforms of the early 1950s. This chapter first provides an overview of consumption and economic policy in Yugoslavia in the years 1945–1950 before discussing the emergence of self-management socialism and the consumer shift from 1950 to 1965. It then discusses the growth of personal consumption during the period 1965–1980, along with the economic crisis that began in the late 1970s.
Peder Inge Furseth and Richard Cuthbertson
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198705116
- eISBN:
- 9780191774218
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198705116.001.0001
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Innovation
This book aims to develop innovation theory by focusing on innovation in a consumer society. In an advanced consumer society, services dominate and are provided through digital as well as physical ...
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This book aims to develop innovation theory by focusing on innovation in a consumer society. In an advanced consumer society, services dominate and are provided through digital as well as physical channels, by local, national and global firms. This book aims to identify the ways in which value can be increased for all stakeholders through incremental and disruptive innovation. When interacting with leading businesses, there is a common acceptance that we need a better understanding of how to innovate in a service economy. It is a challenge for both societies and firms that future economic growth will increasingly be based on services rather than manufacturing and products. Failing to understand innovation issues in this context as an engine for growth is somewhat alarming. This raises the question: do we know how to innovate successfully in a consumer driven society? This book develops the concept of Value-Driven Service Innovation, alongside a methodology for applying this approach in practice: the Service Innovation Triangle. It develops a better understanding of innovation based on the uniqueness of services in order to develop a framework for service innovation suitable for a consumer society.Less
This book aims to develop innovation theory by focusing on innovation in a consumer society. In an advanced consumer society, services dominate and are provided through digital as well as physical channels, by local, national and global firms. This book aims to identify the ways in which value can be increased for all stakeholders through incremental and disruptive innovation. When interacting with leading businesses, there is a common acceptance that we need a better understanding of how to innovate in a service economy. It is a challenge for both societies and firms that future economic growth will increasingly be based on services rather than manufacturing and products. Failing to understand innovation issues in this context as an engine for growth is somewhat alarming. This raises the question: do we know how to innovate successfully in a consumer driven society? This book develops the concept of Value-Driven Service Innovation, alongside a methodology for applying this approach in practice: the Service Innovation Triangle. It develops a better understanding of innovation based on the uniqueness of services in order to develop a framework for service innovation suitable for a consumer society.
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846314872
- eISBN:
- 9781846317156
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846317156.017
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
The economic growth enjoyed by France after World War II brought unprecedented levels of affluence to the whole society. Purchasing power and standards of living improved dramatically, while ...
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The economic growth enjoyed by France after World War II brought unprecedented levels of affluence to the whole society. Purchasing power and standards of living improved dramatically, while production increased along with goods and services. Elsa Triolet's 1959 novel, Roses à crédit, the first part of the trilogy L'âge de nylon, highlights the use of credit for consumer purchases and features a female protagonist who finds personal, even idiosyncratic, fulfillment in consumer goods. The emergence of consumer credit was a necessary condition of France's post-war recovery, with wide-ranging social and ideological implications. In the consumer society, the credit facility is an integral and essential part of economic development. Credit reaffirms the link between consumption and production that characterises modern economies.Less
The economic growth enjoyed by France after World War II brought unprecedented levels of affluence to the whole society. Purchasing power and standards of living improved dramatically, while production increased along with goods and services. Elsa Triolet's 1959 novel, Roses à crédit, the first part of the trilogy L'âge de nylon, highlights the use of credit for consumer purchases and features a female protagonist who finds personal, even idiosyncratic, fulfillment in consumer goods. The emergence of consumer credit was a necessary condition of France's post-war recovery, with wide-ranging social and ideological implications. In the consumer society, the credit facility is an integral and essential part of economic development. Credit reaffirms the link between consumption and production that characterises modern economies.
