社会分层和社会流动框架下的消费

Consumption within the Framework of Social Stratification and Social Mobility

社会分层和社会流动是社会学领域最传统、最成熟的研究领域之一。主流学者往往侧重从生产、职业、工作等生产主义的角度来展开对分层和流动的研究,消费视角的研究相对薄弱。尽管如此,依然有一些学者展开了对消费与分层和流动关系的研究。但是,学者在消费与分层和流动的因果关系上的观点存在分歧和冲突,分别提出了“消费被决定论”“互构论”和“消费形塑论”。文章梳理了这些研究成果,并对这些观点进行了整合。在此基础上,文章提出了值得拓展的研究领域,即团体消费与分层和流动的关系研究。

Social stratification and social mobility are among the most traditional and mature research fields in sociology.Mainstream scholars often focus on the study of stratification and mobility from the perspective of production,occupation,and work.Research from the perspective of consumption is relatively weak.Nevertheless,some scholars have conducted research on the relationship between consumption and stratification and mobility.However,there are differences and conflicts among scholars in the causal relationship between consumption and stratification and mobility,and they have proposed the different viewpoints such as“consumption being determined by stratification and mobility”,“mutual construction”and“consumption shaping stratification and mobility”respectively.This article reviews these research findings and integrates the different viewpoints.Based on this,the article proposes a new research area worth exploring,namely,the relationship between group consumption and stratification and mobility.