消费不仅扮演着经济的角色,而且还扮演着社会和文化的角色。本文简要分析了经济学理论对消费现象解释的局限性,并从消费社会学角度出发,基于传统社会、消费社会以及中国社会三个维度,论述了消费方式与社会阶层(社会地位)的关系,认为居民消费分化是社会分化的重要体现。
Consumption not only plays a role in the economy,but also played the role of society and culture.This paper analyzes the limitations of economic theory to explain consumer behavior.The relationship between consumption patterns and social class is discussed from the three dimensions of the traditional society,consumer society,and Chinese society in sociology of consumption perspective.We attain to a conclusion that consumption differentiation is an important embodiment of social differentiation.