Consumption and Class Divisions and Change
An edited collection exploring divisions and changes within and between the spheres of consumption and production. Topics include: the relationship between consumption and production; the social construction of consumers; housing and social class mobility
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Consumption and Class Divisions and Change
Edited by Roger Burrows Principal Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy Teesside Polytechnic
and
Catherine Marsh Lecturer in Economic and Social Studies University of Manchester
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 978-1-349-21727-4 ISBN 978-1-349-21725-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-21725-0
© British Sociological Association, 1992 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1992 978-0-333-56536-0 All rights reserved. For information, write: Scholarly and Reference Division, St. Martin's Press, Inc., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 First published in the United States of America in 1992 ISBN 978-0-312-06867-7 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Consumption and class: divisions and change/edited by Roger Burrows and Catherine Marsh. p. em. Based on presentations at the British Sociological Association annual conference held at the University of Surrey, Apr. 1990. Includes index. ISBN 978-0-312-06867-7 I. Social classes-Great Britain-Congresses. 2. Consumers-Great Britain-Attitudes-Congresses. 3. Social mobility-Great Britain-Congresses. 4. Public health-Great ·Britain-Congresses. I. Burrows, Roger, 1962II. Marsh, Catherine. III. British Sociological Association. HN400.S6C665 1992 305.5'0941--dc20 91-22442 CIP
Contents List of Tables
vii
List of Figures
IX
Preface
X
xi
Notes on the Contributors
1 Consumption, Class and Contemporary Sociology
1
Roger BurroH's and Catherine Marsh
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Notes on the Relationship between Production and Consumption Alan Warde Constructing Consumers and Consumer Protection: the Case of the Life Insurance Industry in the United Kingdom Glenn Morgan and David Knights
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Social Class, Consumption Divisions and Housing Mobility Mike Savage. Paul Watt and Sara Arber
52
Medicine and Markets: Power, Choice and the Consumption of Private Medical Care Joan Busfield
71
Principles and Practice: the Case of Private Health Insurance Michael Calnan and Sarah Cant
89
Managed Markets: Consumers and Producers in the National Health Service Rob Flynn
122
Patterns of Social Consciousness amongst the Middle Classes Rosemary Crompton
140
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Contents
VI
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thirtysomething and Contemporary Consumer Culture: Distinctiveness and Distinction Frances Bonner and Paul du Gay
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Class Differences in Access to Higher Education Catherine Marsh and Robert M. Blackburn
II
Competing Views of Contemporary Social Mobility and Social Divisions Geoff Payne
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Bibliogruphy
241
Author Index
256
Subject Index
260
List of Tables 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 8.1 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4
10.5
11.1 11.2
Housing tenure of children of Guildford Borough Council tenants who have left parental home, 1988, and of population of Guildford, 1981 Mobility between first tenure after leaving parental home and current tenure of children of council tenants Different measures of social class of children of council tenants who have left parental home Children in social classes in owner-occupation an
