The post-revolutionary consumer generation: mainstream youth and the paradox of choice in the Czech Republic

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2010.487519" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2010.487519</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2010.487519" target="_blank" >10.1080/13676261.2010.487519</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The post-revolutionary consumer generation: mainstream youth and the paradox of choice in the Czech Republic

Original language description

Since the collapse of the communist regime in the former Czechoslovakia in 1989, there has been an increasing recognition that the experience of young people in the Czech Republic offers a useful indicator of changing social, cultural and political trends. However, young people's experience of consumption as a response to social transformation has not been given sufficient attention. Any conception of young consumers in the Czech Republic tends to dismiss them as a materialistic, hedonistic, egocentricand conformist generation. This article challenges these stereotypes arguing that an empirically informed understanding of young people's relationship to consumption provides a means of understanding the social and cultural implications of post-socialisttransitions. The notion of the mainstream provides a particularly useful means of understanding the conflicting nature of young people's choices in a risk society, while providing an alternative perspective on youth's consumption.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50401 - Sociology

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2010

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Youth Studies

ISSN

1367-6261

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

13

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

17

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000281065200002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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