Lifestyle Consumption
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7076905 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Paul Strohecker (University of Maryland, College Park, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Pages | 1-5 |
| Publication date | 2020-04-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosl050.pub2 |
| OpenAlex | W4244821291 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 18 |
This entry is an examination of lifestyle consumption through the lens of postmodern social theory. Lifestyle consumption includes all the goods and services we use in an effort to both meet our material concerns as well as express who we are. Consumption, here, carries both material and symbolic claims to status or distinction; it is inherently cultural and relational. At the individual level this practice is expressive because it is all about meaning‐making – for example, the construction of personal identity. At the collective level, lifestyle consumption enables the emergence of elected communities like subcultures, scenes, or neo‐tribes, communities of affinity where taste becomes the source of social ties
Aesthetics · Art · Consumption (sociology · Identity (music · Literature · Meaning (existential · Postmodernism · Social group · Social identity theory · Social science · Sociology · Taste · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Psychology · Social Psychology
Popular culture and high culture
Lifestyle Shopping
Club cultures
From Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
The Consumer Society Reader
Fandom
The dialectic of enlightenment
Resistance Through Rituals
Consumer Culture and Postmodernism
The Consumer Society
Subcultures of Consumption
Brand Community
Fashion
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |