Production and consumption
- Created by: Rachellowe
- Created on: 13-05-18 17:43
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- Production and consumption
- Work and leisure
- People are increasingly relying on the work and services of other people to survive
- More people are defining themselves on what they consume not on what they produce
- The identities people can build are more varied
- Willis - work is now less satisfying because it often requires little skill
- People use their leisure time to gain satisfaction and build there identity.
- Rojek - work and leisure are often combined in postmodern society
- People are now turning their hobbies into paid work
- Social class
- Parker - the link between work and leisure
- The extension pattern - leisure and work are actively linked
- The neutrality pattern - the relationship between work and leisure is not planned
- The opposition pattern - leisure and work are deliberately separate
- Women who work in the home dont have boundaries between work and leisure
- Parker - the link between work and leisure
- Postmodernist
- People are now much more likely to build their identities based on symbolic consumption
- The 'new man' - caring, sensitive and does the housework
- Individuals use leisure time and products from culture industries to build identities for themselves
- Lury - shopping is becoming a more common way to spend leisure time
- What you buy is part of your identity
- Pluralism
- Cultural industries make choices about what to produce based on what society chooses to consume
- 'repressed consumers' - those who are unable to use consumerism to express who they are.
- Bauman - consumer society gives you the illusion that your identity is flexible.
- Clarke and Critcher - leisure is controlled by companies who want to make a profit
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- Work and leisure
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