消费、消费不足与超消费

今年以来，由于受东南亚经济危机的影响以及国内市场情况的变化，使我国经济面临新的考验，出现了投资下降、消费品滞销、下岗人员增多等问题。有观点认为，要摆脱这一现状的有效办法就是刺激消费，以消费带动生产的发展。那么，这种观点正确与否，该如何全面认识消费与生...

“类情绪安全阀”:城市商超消费中的青年俘获与转型迎合

商超作为人类消费活动不可或缺的空间载体,直观折射出不同世代社会中各生活性要素的真实境况。新中国成立至今,城市商超内部业态不断进化之时,也一并持续丰富我国居民消费体验。研究基于虚拟民族志方法对H市12位青年调查发现,近年实体商超虽面临着“赛博冲击”下的主客观生存困局,但其通过全新包装弥散出集人间烟火、美学萦绕、即刻拥有、情境交汇等属性于一体的“类情绪安全阀”功能,正在年轻群体中造就一种“魅力俘获”。抓此契机为促成更多青年消费者复归线下,现代商超可沿循数字迎合、格调迎合、休闲迎合和价格迎合等路径安排“自救式转型”,以期重拾消费优势,助力实体经济振兴。

超消费景观，不可回避的景观

“超消费景观”展2002年11月17日在广州Vilaitrill Grealive Space举行，这个展览由胡昉策划，参展艺术家有颜磊、洪浩、邢丹文、施勇、陈邵雄、郑国谷、罗斌华。

新闻媒体沦为消费工具的社会学思考

新闻媒体是社会的公器,是公共利益的代言人,必须客观、真实、全面和公正地报道新闻。然而,有些媒体在经济新闻报道中却沦为消费工具,不仅把自己推向商业广告代言人的前台,而且直接参与超消费和炫耀性消费的策划。因此,本文提出必须建立客观、公正的新闻报道机制,让新闻媒体真正成为公共利益的维护者和实践者。

“假精致”不是“心理病”是“社会病”

“假精致”反映的是人们对美好生活的向往,尽管这是一种扭曲的、错位的反映。归根结底,“假精致”不是一些年轻人心理出了问题,而是他们的身份认同出了状况。治理“假精致”,一方面应提倡“踮起脚尖”的身份认同,另一方面应改变“符号消费”的标签建构。

Triggering Body Dissatisfaction： The Role of Familiarity on Subsequent Evaluations of the Self

Past research examining the content of media programming has demonstrated that women in the media tend to have to conform to certain beauty and body standards in order to succeed. Because this thin ideal is so weU-documented, there has been an interest in examining the effects of those portrayals on media consumers. Results from experimental studies suggest that the media can play an important role in causing body dissatisfaction among women. This research looks to build upon prior studies by exploring the role of familiarity with the mediated image in causing body dissatisfaction. Results suggest that in line with prior research, unfamiliar images of skinny women and moderately overweight women influenced women so that they felt worse about themselves. A similar result was obtained with familiar images of skinny celebrities. Familiar images of overweight celebrities, though, did not cause body dissatisfaction. Implications from these results are discussed.