Cultural consumption and the myth of life-style [Recurs electrònic] / Neil Maycroft
Online resources: In: Capital & class No. 84 (2004), p. 61-75Summary: The concept of life-style seems to have been thoroughly naturalised, both academically and in common parlance. There is little critical interrogation of what life-style involves, beyond its connection to cultural and aesthetic aspects of consumption. What are the implications of accepting this culturalised description of consumption and its shorthand designation, ‘lifestyle’? This polemical paper interrogates both the linguistic and conceptual challenges associated with the term, and argues that it acts to efface and erase important social differences of wealth, opportunity, class, gender and ethnicity, as well as obscuring global and historical inequalities. (Font: Autor)Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Introduction -- Life-style : the word itself -- Life-style : examples of use -- Work and life-style -- Life-style and consumption -- Life-style of the rich and famous -- Ethnic life-styles -- Unhealthy life-styles -- Digital life-styles -- Life-style as political and social containment -- Notes -- References
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