The Authority of the Consumer

Keat, Russell; Whiteley, Nigel; Abercrombie, Nicholas

doi:10.4324/9780203392867

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“…The austerity of the immediate postwar years and into the fifties begins, certainly by the 1960s, to give way to a more affluent consumer culture and a diversity of expression and display focused around objects of consumption. Although not to be accounted for by consumption itself, the period sees a move to enjoyment and away from the kind of hardship that had previously provided solidarity to working-class experience and sharpness to its politics (Abercrombie, Keat, and Whiteley 1994;Micheletti, Follestal, and Stolle 2004).…”

Section: The Sixties: a Cultural Watershedmentioning

confidence: 97%

Cultural and Moral Authority: The Presumption of Television

Morrison

2009

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Scie

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This article shows how British television has lost cultural authority due to social shifts in British society whereby no single moral voice can expect to find an audience. The author argues that there is no longer a moral language by which to address moral issues nor any common agreement about the rightful constitution of the cultural and moral universe. The central point is that technological development leading to increase in television channel proliferation did not fragment the audience, as is often assumed, but that it was the fragmentation of the audience that allowed the uptake of the varied and various channels.

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Section: The Sixties: a Cultural Watershedmentioning

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Cultural and Moral Authority: The Presumption of Television

Morrison

2009

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“…The idea of the ‘consumer society’ is not a new one, and, depending the particular definition used of the term, can refer to Victorian Britain (Flanders, 2007), with its explosion of department stores and the availability of non-essential goods, or more recently can be tied in with the ‘Fordist’ expansion of mass-produced goods (and welfare) in the post-Second World War period (Jessop, 2002). Despite the extension of public services, especially at the local level, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, and the significant growth in the public provision of welfare from 1945 onwards, the idea of consumerism in public services is a much more recent phenomenon, becoming more visible from the 1960s onwards (Abercrombie, 1994).…”

Section: Consumerismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Choice and Voice – A Review

Greener¹

2008

Social Policy & Society

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‘Choice’ and ‘voice’ are two of the most significant means through which the public are able to participate in public services. Choice agendas position public service users as consumers, driving improvements by choosing good providers over bad, which then thrive through greater allocations of funds as money follows their selections (Le Grand, 2007). Choice-driven reforms tend to be about trying to make public services more locally responsive (Ferlie, Freeman, McDonnell, Petsoulas and Rundle-Smith, 2006). Voice-driven reforms, on the other hand, tend to position public service users as citizens, suggesting an emphasis on accountability mechanisms to drive service improvements through elections, with the possible removal of low regarded officials, or a greater involvement of local people in the running of services (Jenkins, 2006). Voice implies that citizens hold the right to participate in public services either through the political process, or through their direct involvement in the running or delivery of the services themselves. Of course, it is also possible to combine choice and voice mechanisms to try and achieve greater service responsiveness and accountability. In this review, choice reforms will be treated as those which are based upon consumer literature, and voice reforms those based upon attempting to achieve greater citizenship.Citizenship and consumption are two areas with significant literatures in their own right, but whereas the citizenship literature is widely cited in the social policy literature, the consumption literature appears rather more selectively. This review examines each area in turn in terms of its application to social policy, and then presents a synthesis of commonalties in the two literatures, which represent particularly promising avenues for exploring the relationship between public services and their users.

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“…This`authority of the self' typifies not only New Age and other new forms of spirituality, 20 but also many other arenas. The authority of the modern consumer takes over, in theory at least, from the authority of the expert; 21 the globally growing charismatic movement privileges personal experience of the Holy Spirit over the authority of traditional Catholic or evangelical teaching; 22 palliative care is driven, in principle at least, by the elicited wants of the patient rather than by doctor's orders. 23 3) One reason that institutional authority in religion has been undermined is that its ability to provide coherent and mutually consistent answers to the questions`Where have we come from?…”

Section: Organizations and Individualsmentioning

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Spirituality in palliative care: opportunity or burden?

2002

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The article questions an assumption in palliative care literature, namely that all patients have a spiritual dimension and that all staff can offer spiritual care. The article identifies spirituality as a particular kind of discourse. In late-modern Anglophone societies, this discourse arises from the experience of a particular generation and a particular segment of the population, namely those moving beyond formal religion; this segment is probably better represented among caring professionals than among dying patients. A four-fold typology of patients' approaches to religion/spirituality is developed, indicating the potential of differentiating between actual patients, rather than presuming a universal 'search for meaning'. This alternative approach may enhance opportunities for team working and reduce the likelihood of any one member of staff feeling spiritual care to be an unwelcome burden.

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The Authority of the Consumer

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Cultural and Moral Authority: The Presumption of Television

Choice and Voice – A Review

Spirituality in palliative care: opportunity or burden?

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