The Lifestyle Discourse in Consumer Capitalism

• Autorzy: Burkhard Bierhoff
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

This paper presents some dimensions of the lifestyle discourse which have become relevant in recent years in science and public. The discourse that had initially focused on the limits of growth increasingly showed the destructive consequences of the materialistic consumer way of life and discussed sustainable lifestyles. The commodification and infantilization of the consumers who are involved in the commodity structure of consumerist lifestyle have been criticized. For some time an increasing emphasis is found for problems that extend beyond one's own life. With increasing empathy the personal lifestyle is widely based on relationships and contexts outside the immediate sphere of life. Accordingly, a lifestyle of voluntary simplicity is propagated. The consistent postmaterialistic orientation, which means a renunciation of the consumer capitalism, is regarded as its central feature.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Lifestyle Lifestyle discourse Capitalism Consumer capitalism Economism Consumerism Overconsumption Commodification Prosperity Poverty Voluntary simplicity Sustainability Empathic civilization

• Wydawca: Sciendo
• Czasopismo: Social Change Review
• Rocznik: 2013
• Tom: 11
• Numer: 1
• Strony: 85-101

Daty

wydano

2013-07-01

online

2013-08-15

Twórcy

autor

Burkhard Bierhoff

• Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU CS), Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, Musikpädagogik, 47 Lipezker Str., 03048 Cottbus, Germany,

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Identyfikatory

DOI

10.2478/scr-2013-0007