Discourses of Thrift and Consumer Reasonability in Czech State-Socialist Society

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.13060/00380288.2017.53.6.376" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.13060/00380288.2017.53.6.376</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.13060/00380288.2017.53.6.376" target="_blank" >10.13060/00380288.2017.53.6.376</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Discourses of Thrift and Consumer Reasonability in Czech State-Socialist Society

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The article examines how notions of thrift, saving, and frugality were present and active in the state-socialist discourses of economic behaviour and what meaning these notions carried. The research is based on three kinds of data: the official state-socialist public discourse of economic behaviour as presented in transcripts of parliamentary speeches, household guides and manuals, and eyewitness accounts of the state-socialist era recollected in oral history interviews. Such a multi-faceted corpus of discourse data made it possible to examine factual and normative aspects of thrift in state-socialist discourses and compare them with the accounts of everyday practices and tactics that may well contradict the official discourse. The analysis reveals that (a) notions of thrift and saving were strongly present throughout the period in all discourses examined, (b) both terms underwent a semantic shift from a productive to a restrictive meaning over time, and (c) both notions were eventually publicly sidelined by the emphasis on raising revenue. Despite fading from public discourse in the late 1980s, the notion of thrift had by then become instilled in the subjective understanding of the &apos;reasonable consumer&apos;, a concept that can therefore be considered a precursor of the contemporary concept of consumer responsibilisation.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Discourses of Thrift and Consumer Reasonability in Czech State-Socialist Society

Popis výsledku anglicky

The article examines how notions of thrift, saving, and frugality were present and active in the state-socialist discourses of economic behaviour and what meaning these notions carried. The research is based on three kinds of data: the official state-socialist public discourse of economic behaviour as presented in transcripts of parliamentary speeches, household guides and manuals, and eyewitness accounts of the state-socialist era recollected in oral history interviews. Such a multi-faceted corpus of discourse data made it possible to examine factual and normative aspects of thrift in state-socialist discourses and compare them with the accounts of everyday practices and tactics that may well contradict the official discourse. The analysis reveals that (a) notions of thrift and saving were strongly present throughout the period in all discourses examined, (b) both terms underwent a semantic shift from a productive to a restrictive meaning over time, and (c) both notions were eventually publicly sidelined by the emphasis on raising revenue. Despite fading from public discourse in the late 1980s, the notion of thrift had by then become instilled in the subjective understanding of the &apos;reasonable consumer&apos;, a concept that can therefore be considered a precursor of the contemporary concept of consumer responsibilisation.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50401 - Sociology

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA15-04863S" target="_blank" >GA15-04863S: Šetrnost a hospodárnost v časech krize: ekonomické chování v rodinném a veřejném diskurzu v dnešní české společnosti</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2017

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review

ISSN

0038-0288

e-ISSN

—

Svazek periodika

53

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

6

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

27

Strana od-do

805-831

Kód UT WoS článku

000423274800002

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85041347170