Lifestyle and Social Structure : Concepts, Definitions, Analyses
Michael E. Sobel
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Burlington : : Elsevier Science, , 2013.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (241 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Front Cover; Lifestyle and Social Structure: Concepts, Definitions, Analyses; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1. Introduction; CHAPTER 2. Lifestyle and Sociological Thought; Early Theoretical Approaches; The Symbolic Approach; Some Empirical Inquiries; Defining Lifestyle; CHAPTER 3. From Style to Lifestyle: An Analogy to Art History; Style in Ordinary Language; Esthetic Style; Idiosyncratic Style; Descriptive Style; Lifestyle; CHAPTER 4. Lifestyle, Consumption,and the American Experience: A Historical Sketch; The Historical Argument1. - CHAPTER 7. Social Structure and Lifestyle: A Preliminary AnalysisSome Preliminary Results; Adding Variables to the Basic Model; Data Analysis; Interpreting the Results; Effects of the Socioeconomic Variables; Summary; CHAPTER 8. Social Structure and Stylistic Unity; Lifestyle or Stylistic Unity?; Exploratory Factor Analysis; A Confirmatory Analysis; The Socioeconomic Effects; Descriptive form, Spatio-Temporal Invariance, and Social Structure: A Speculative and Nontechnical Exegesis; CHAPTER 9. Lifestyle, Stratification, and Alienation: Conclusions and Speculations. - Conclusions and SpeculationsAppendix A: Creation of the Education Codes; APPENDIX B: Creation of the SEI Scores; APPENDIX C: Creation of the Dependent Variables; References; Subject Index; QUANTITATIVE STUDIES IN SOCIAL RELATIONS. - Consumption and ExpressivenessWork and Expressiveness; Leisure and Consumption; Summary; CHAPTER 5. Toward a Sociological Theory of Lifestyle Differentiation; Where Does Lifestyle Come From?; Social Structure and Referent Generators; Lifestyle and Alternative Lifestyles; Economic Work on Consumption; The Relationship between Economic Theories of Consumption and the Sociological Theory of Lifestyle Differentiation; CHAPTER 6. lementing the Theory: Data and Methods; Indexing the Causal Factors; Consumption; Engel Curve Analyses; The Data; Estimation. - 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 theref
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| ISBN | 0126542805
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