Consumption and Class

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Consumption, Class and Contemporary Sociology

   • Roger Burrows, Catherine Marsh

   Pages 1-14

3. Notes on the Relationship between Production and Consumption

   • Alan Warde

   Pages 15-31

4. Constructing Consumers and Consumer Protection: the Case of the Life Insurance Industry in the United Kingdom

   • Glenn Morgan, David Knights

   Pages 32-51

5. Social Class, Consumption Divisions and Housing Mobility

   • Mike Savage, Paul Watt, Sara Arber

   Pages 52-70

6. Medicine and Markets: Power, Choice and the Consumption of Private Medical Care

   • Joan Busfield

   Pages 71-88

7. Principles and Practice: the Case of Private Health Insurance

   • Michael Calnan, Sarah Cant

   Pages 89-121

8. Managed Markets: Consumers and Producers in the National Health Service

   • Rob Flynn

   Pages 122-139

9. Patterns of Social Consciousness amongst the Middle Classes

   • Rosemary Crompton

   Pages 140-165

10. thirtysomething and Contemporary Consumer Culture: Distinctiveness and Distinction

    • Frances Bonner, Paul du Gay

    Pages 166-183

11. Class Differences in Access to Higher Education in Britain

    • Catherine Marsh, Robert M. Blackburn

    Pages 184-211

12. Competing Views of Contemporary Social Mobility and Social Divisions

    • Geoff Payne

    Pages 212-240

13. Back Matter

    Pages 241-263

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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; health provision; the role of the 'service class'; and access to higher education. Peter Saunders' work provides the initial stimulus for many of the papers, but all go beyond his narrow conception of a sociology of consumption and his liberal analysis of patterns of social inequality.

• education
• mobility
• Nation
• service
• social inequality
• sociology

• Teesside Polytechnic, UK

  Roger Burrows

• University of Manchester, UK

  Catherine Marsh

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