Class, cohort, and consumption: The British experience of the third age
Class, cohort, and consumption: The British experience of the third age
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DOI：
10.1093/geronb/60.6.s305
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发表时间：
2005-11-01
影响因子：
6.2
通讯作者：
Blane, D
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作者：
Gilleard, C;Higgs, P;Blane, D
目标.本研究探讨了历史和社会阶层的位置对参与消费主义在两个不同队列的退休人员在英国的相对影响。利用全国代表性调查的退休人员自我报告的数据，构建了一个消费指数。内部的可靠性进行了分析和方差分析，以检查的影响，类的起源，队列，并在出口类的自我报告的“消费主义”的水平。“结果。该指数表现出足够的内部可靠性，提供了一个操作的测量“消费主义”在这退休人口。方差分析证实，类出口和队列，但不是类的原产地的消费水平的变化作出了显着贡献。这些影响并不是由健康的队列差异介导的。退休前的职业地位与退休后的“消费主义”有关。这并不奇怪。结果还表明，出生队列对晚年生活中的当前消费产生了比阶级背景更强的历史影响（即，社会阶级）。这支持了我们的论点，即在世纪早期出生和长大的连续一代人有限但越来越多地沉浸在大众消费社会中，这继续反映在退休后的“消费主义”水平上。
Objectives. This study examines the relative effect of historical and social class location on engagement in consumerism within two different cohorts of retired people in the United Kingdom.Methods. With use of self-reported data from the retired members of a nationally representative survey, an index of consumption was constructed. Its internal reliability was analysed and analyses of variance performed to examine the impact of class of origin, cohort, and class at exit on levels of self-reported "consumerism."Results. The index demonstrated sufficient internal reliability to provide an operational measurement of "consumerism" within this retired population. Analyses of variance confirmed that class at exit and cohort but not class of origin contributed significantly to variation in levels of consumerism. These effects were not mediated by cohort differences in health.Discussion. Occupational standing immediately before retirement was associated with "consumerism" after retirement. This is unsurprising. The results also show that birth cohort exercised a stronger historical influence on current consumption in later life than did class background (i.e., paternal social class). This supports our thesis that the limited but increasing immersion in mass consumer society of successive cohorts who were born and grew up earlier in the 20th century continues to be reflected in levels of "consumerism" in retirement.