Sobel / Rossi Lifestyle and Social Structure

Concepts, Definitions, Analyses
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4832-6028-0
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Web PDF

Lifestyle and Social Structure: Concepts, Definitions, Analyses is devoted the relationship between lifestyle and social structure. The book begins by constructing a meaningful concept of lifestyle in order to understand and model this relationship. The general formulation of the concept hinges on the descriptive word style, defined as ''any distinctive, and therefore recognizable way in which an act is performed or an artifact made or ought to be performed and made.'' After developing the implications of the definition, lifestyle is defined, by analogy, as ''any distinctive, and therefore recognizable mode of living.'' The notion of social structure is then introduced, arguing that structural differentiation engenders lifestyle differentiation. The remainder of the work is concerned primarily with the modeling of this relationship using data from the 1972-1973 Survey of Consumer Expenditures, and with the concept of stylistic unity. Key topics discussed include the relationship between the theory of lifestyle differentiation and modern economic utility theory; psychographic notions of lifestyle; and the relationships between lifestyle and other key sociological concepts (stratification, alienation). The concept of lifestyle should be of interest to a broad range of applied and theoretical researchers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sobel, Michael E.

Rossi, Peter H.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front Cover;1
2;Lifestyle and Social Structure: Concepts, Definitions, Analyses;4
3;Copyright Page;5
4;Table of Contents;6
5;Dedication;5
6;Preface;10
7;Acknowledgments;12
8;CHAPTER 1. Introduction;14
9;CHAPTER 2. Lifestyle and Sociological Thought;20
9.1;Early Theoretical Approaches;20
9.2;The Symbolic Approach;23
9.3;Some Empirical Inquiries;24
9.4;Defining Lifestyle;28
10;CHAPTER 3. From Style to Lifestyle: An Analogy to Art History;32
10.1;Style in Ordinary Language;32
10.2;Esthetic Style;35
10.3;Idiosyncratic Style;36
10.4;Descriptive Style;37
10.5;Lifestyle;40
11;CHAPTER 4. Lifestyle, Consumption,and the American Experience: A Historical Sketch;44
11.1;The Historical Argument1;45
11.2;Consumption and Expressiveness;53
11.3;Work and Expressiveness;55
11.4;Leisure and Consumption;56
11.5;Summary;60
12;CHAPTER 5. Toward a Sociological Theory of Lifestyle Differentiation;62
12.1;Where Does Lifestyle Come From?;62
12.2;Social Structure and Referent Generators;65
12.3;Lifestyle and Alternative Lifestyles;68
12.4;Economic Work on Consumption;69
12.5;The Relationship between Economic Theories of Consumption and the Sociological Theory of Lifestyle Differentiation;71
13;CHAPTER 6. lementing the Theory: Data and Methods;74
13.1;Indexing the Causal Factors;75
13.2;Consumption;75
13.3;Engel Curve Analyses;78
13.4;The Data;80
13.5;Estimation;82
14;CHAPTER 7. Social Structure and Lifestyle: A Preliminary Analysis;88
14.1;Some Preliminary Results;89
14.2;Adding Variables to the Basic Model;92
14.3;Data Analysis;95
14.4;Interpreting the Results;107
14.5;Effects of the Socioeconomic Variables;114
14.6;Summary;128
15;CHAPTER 8. Social Structure and Stylistic Unity;130
15.1;Lifestyle or Stylistic Unity?;131
15.2;Exploratory Factor Analysis;134
15.3;A Confirmatory Analysis;141
15.4;The Socioeconomic Effects;165
15.5;Descriptive form, Spatio-Temporal Invariance, and Social Structure: A Speculative and Nontechnical Exegesis;170
16;CHAPTER 9. Lifestyle, Stratification, and Alienation: Conclusions and Speculations;178
16.1;Conclusions and Speculations;181
17;Appendix A: Creation of the Education Codes;188
18;APPENDIX B: Creation of the SEI Scores;190
19;APPENDIX C: Creation of the Dependent Variables;194
20;References;226
21;Subject Index;234
22;QUANTITATIVE STUDIES IN SOCIAL RELATIONS;240