Consumption and Dignified Life: A Socio-Historic Restatement

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Sociology Lens Pub Date : 2023-10-11 DOI:10.1111/johs.12435
Mauricio Casanova Brito
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This article provides an examination of the concept of consumption within the fields of sociology and economic historiography. Two theoretical approaches towards this phenomenon exist in the literature: the consumer society as a characteristic element of late capitalism in the 20th century and the society of consumption as a fundamental aspect in the historical origins of modern society between the 17th and 19th centuries. The article challenges one of the central premises of the first approach, which suggests that mass consumption contaminates a previously given society. Instead, I argue that the expansion of a consumer society during the early phase of capitalism created the conditions for the emergence of an emancipatory ideal of dignified life associated with a basic standard of consumption. This concept served as a historical precursor to the contemporary notion of absolute poverty.

消费与有尊严的生活:社会历史重述
本文探讨了社会学和经济史学领域的消费概念。文献中有两种针对这一现象的理论方法:作为 20 世纪晚期资本主义特征要素的消费社会,以及作为 17 至 19 世纪现代社会历史起源基本方面的消费社会。文章质疑了第一种方法的核心前提之一,即大众消费污染了先前既定的社会。相反,我认为,在资本主义早期阶段,消费社会的扩张为与基本消费标准相关的有尊严生活的解放性理想的出现创造了条件。这一概念是当代绝对贫困概念的历史先驱。
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