Affluence and the Dynamics of Spending in Britain, 1961–2004
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12585671 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shinobu Majima (0000-0002-7586-0318, Royal Mail Group (United Kingdom), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 573-597 |
| Publication date | 2008-11-28 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary British History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1361-9462 • E-ISSN: 1743-7997 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13619460802439424 |
| OpenAlex | W2034579532 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 18 |
There is considerable debate among historians and sociologists over the periodisation of the social dynamics of mass consumption in the second half of the twentieth century. During the immediate period following post-war austerity, journalists and other commentators focused on greater affluence and the relative reduction in spending on ‘necessary’ items. Sociologists, however, often emphasised the continued role of class in shaping consumer preferences. In this paper, I use evidence from the Family Expenditure Survey,1 [1] The FES and the National Food Survey were merged in 2001, and became the Expenditures and Food Survey. conducted by the UK government since the 1950s, to capture relative differences in the weekly spending patterns of all households. I compare expenditure data for the year 1961 for detailed categories of consumer goods and services, with respect to differences in income, class and age, and compare these data with the results for 1971, 1981 and 2004. Using a multi-dimensional approach more conventionally used in lifestyle research and brand marketing allows us to examine how consumption is structured by inequality, though in subtly changing ways
Austerity · Consumer Expenditure Survey · Consumer spending · Consumption (sociology · Demographic economics · Development economics · Economics · Government (linguistics · Inequality · Macroeconomics · Political science · Public economics · Recession · Social science · Sociology · Survey data collection · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Wine Industry and Tourism
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| Citations per year | 0.12 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2014 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |