The Role of Middle Class in Forming of Consumption Habits of Market Institutions among Kazakh Households in Transition Period
Market institutions extension within transit societies
contributes to constituting the new type of middle class and
households livelihood strategies. The middle class households as an
example of prosperity in many cases encourage the ordinary ones to
do the same economic actions. Therefore, practices of using market
institutions by middle class households in transit societies, which are
mostly characterized by huge influence of traditional attitudes, can
carry habitual features for the whole society. Market institutions
consumption habit of the middle class households makes them
trendsetters of economic habits of other households while adapting to
the market economy. Moreover different social-economic positions
of households lead them to different consuming results such as
worsening or improving household economy due to indebtedness.
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[2] J.S. Coleman, "Social capital in the creation of human capital”, American journal of sociology Vol. 94, Supplement: Organizations and Institutions: Sociological and Economic approaches to the analysis of social structure, 95-120 pp., 1988
[3] M.Savage, J. Barlow, P. Dickens, T. Fielding, "Property, Bureaucracy and Culture: Middle class Formation in Contemporary Britain”, London : Routledge, 1992. – Т. 5., 1992
[4] M. Liechty, "Suitably Modern: Making Middle Class Culture in a New Consumer Society”, Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003. – p. 11
[5] D. Southerton, "Consuming Kitchens: Taste, Context and Identity Formation”, Journal of Consumer Culture Vol. 1 (2), 2001.- pp. 179–204
[6] "Zhinzn’ v dolg” (Life in debt) Training book of Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan for regulation of development of the regional financial center Almaty city, Almaty, 2009. – pp. 7-15
[7] J. Baudrillard, "The consumer society: Myths and structures”, Vol. 53, Sage, 1998
[8] M. Featherstone, "Consumer Culture and Postmodernism”, London: Sage, 1991
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[14] J.R. Goldthorpe, "Class Conflict and Class Structure”, American Journal of Sociology Vol. 6(105), 2000
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[18] C. Denizer, H. Wolf, Y. Ying, "Household Savings in the Transition”, Journal of Comparative Economics Vol. 30, 2002. – pp. 463-475
[19] O. Serrat, "The Sustainable Livelihoods Approach”, Knowledge Solutions, November, Asian Development Bank, Manila, 2008 - 15p.
[20] C. Rakodi, "A Livelihoods Approach – Conceptual Issues and Definitions”, Urban livelihoods: A people centered approach to Reducing poverty. Earthscan publishing limited. London, Sterling, VA – 2002, pp. 3-6
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[22] P. Bourdieu, "The forms of capital”, Handbook of Theory and Research for the Sociology of Education, in: John G. Richardson (ed.), New York: Greenwood Press, 1986.- pp. 241-258
[23] Aristotle, "Politica” (Policy), Moscow: ACT, 2002
[24] P. Bourdieu, "Algeria 1960. The disenchantment of the world”, Cambridge University Press, 1979. – p. 168
[25] A. Smith, "An Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations” (ed. by E.Canaan), Chicago: University of Chicago press, 1976
[26] G. Akerlof and R. Shiller, «Spiritus animalis, or how human psychology drives the economy and why it matters for Global Capitalism" translated from English by D. Priyatkina, under the scientific supervision of A. Suvorov; welcoming remarks by S. Guriev - Moscow: OOO "United Press", 2010. – pp. 150-151.
[1] S.N. Eisenstadt, "Tradition, change, and modernity”, A Wiley-Interscience Publication, 1973
[2] J.S. Coleman, "Social capital in the creation of human capital”, American journal of sociology Vol. 94, Supplement: Organizations and Institutions: Sociological and Economic approaches to the analysis of social structure, 95-120 pp., 1988
[3] M.Savage, J. Barlow, P. Dickens, T. Fielding, "Property, Bureaucracy and Culture: Middle class Formation in Contemporary Britain”, London : Routledge, 1992. – Т. 5., 1992
[4] M. Liechty, "Suitably Modern: Making Middle Class Culture in a New Consumer Society”, Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003. – p. 11
[5] D. Southerton, "Consuming Kitchens: Taste, Context and Identity Formation”, Journal of Consumer Culture Vol. 1 (2), 2001.- pp. 179–204
[6] "Zhinzn’ v dolg” (Life in debt) Training book of Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan for regulation of development of the regional financial center Almaty city, Almaty, 2009. – pp. 7-15
[7] J. Baudrillard, "The consumer society: Myths and structures”, Vol. 53, Sage, 1998
[8] M. Featherstone, "Consumer Culture and Postmodernism”, London: Sage, 1991
[9] Z. Bauman, "Work Consumerism and the New Poor”, Buckingham: Open UP, 1998
[10] Website of Kazakhstani mortgage company http://kmc.kz/about/ retrieved on July 7th, 2013
[11] The comparative analysis of credit programs of 2nd tier banks in Kazakhstan on the website of Banking service www.prodengi.kz retrieved on August 14th, 2013
[12] J. Scott, G. Marshall, "A Dictionary of Sociology”, Oxford University Press, 2009. – p.816
[13] D. Jerry, "Bol’shoi tolkovyi sociologicheskii slovar” (The big dictionary on Sociology) (Collins) Vol.2, Moscow, Вече, АСТ, 2001. – p. 528
[14] J.R. Goldthorpe, "Class Conflict and Class Structure”, American Journal of Sociology Vol. 6(105), 2000
[15] R.A. Wallace, A. Wolf, "Contemporary Sociological Theory:Expanding the Classical Tradition.”, London: Pearson, 2006
[16] D. Ashley, D.M. Orenstein, "Sociological Theory: Classical Statements”, New Jersey: Pearson, 2005
[17] J. Benson, "The Rise of Consumer Society in Britain”, London: Longman, 1994
[18] C. Denizer, H. Wolf, Y. Ying, "Household Savings in the Transition”, Journal of Comparative Economics Vol. 30, 2002. – pp. 463-475
[19] O. Serrat, "The Sustainable Livelihoods Approach”, Knowledge Solutions, November, Asian Development Bank, Manila, 2008 - 15p.
[20] C. Rakodi, "A Livelihoods Approach – Conceptual Issues and Definitions”, Urban livelihoods: A people centered approach to Reducing poverty. Earthscan publishing limited. London, Sterling, VA – 2002, pp. 3-6
[21] T. Wengraf, "Interviewing for life-histories, lived situations and personal experience: The Biographic-Narrative Interpretive Method (BNIM) on its own and as part of multi-method full spectrum psycho-societal methodology” Online resource http://www.citeulike.org/user/ValentinaMM/article/4222520 retrieved on August 20th, 2013
[22] P. Bourdieu, "The forms of capital”, Handbook of Theory and Research for the Sociology of Education, in: John G. Richardson (ed.), New York: Greenwood Press, 1986.- pp. 241-258
[23] Aristotle, "Politica” (Policy), Moscow: ACT, 2002
[24] P. Bourdieu, "Algeria 1960. The disenchantment of the world”, Cambridge University Press, 1979. – p. 168
[25] A. Smith, "An Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations” (ed. by E.Canaan), Chicago: University of Chicago press, 1976
[26] G. Akerlof and R. Shiller, «Spiritus animalis, or how human psychology drives the economy and why it matters for Global Capitalism" translated from English by D. Priyatkina, under the scientific supervision of A. Suvorov; welcoming remarks by S. Guriev - Moscow: OOO "United Press", 2010. – pp. 150-151.
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contributes to constituting the new type of middle class and
households livelihood strategies. The middle class households as an
example of prosperity in many cases encourage the ordinary ones to
do the same economic actions. Therefore, practices of using market
institutions by middle class households in transit societies, which are
mostly characterized by huge influence of traditional attitudes, can
carry habitual features for the whole society. Market institutions
consumption habit of the middle class households makes them
trendsetters of economic habits of other households while adapting to
the market economy. Moreover different social-economic positions
of households lead them to different consuming results such as
worsening or improving household economy due to indebtedness.
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