caa a22 4500 469036893 CHVBK 20180323132758.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00286563 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00286563 Toivonen Timo Turku School of Economics, Rehtorinpellonkatu 3, Turku, Finland aut The melting away of class differences? Consumption differences between employee groups in Finland 1955-1985 [Elektronische Daten] [Timo Toivonen] In recent years there has been much debate about the impact of social class on individual behaviour, including personal consumption. The object of this study is to examine the degree of variation in consumption patterns between social classes in Finland in 1985 and to compare this with an analysis of data for 1955. The results indicate that socio-economic group was rather less significant when it came to differentiating consumption patterns in main expenditure categories, like housing, for the later point in time than it had been for the earlier one. In other words, the relative explanatory power of socio-economic group (and income group) has decreased in comparison with life-cycle variables (type of household and age of head of household). This suggest that differences in consumption expenditure patterns are no longer so heavily dependent on social class or economic resources but instead on the life cycle or way of life. However, this process is not comprehensive because, for example, the relative impact of social class on cultural consumption has increased. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992 Social Indicators Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 26/3(1992-05-01), 277-302 0303-8300 26:3<277 1992 26 11205 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00286563 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00286563 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Toivonen Timo Turku School of Economics, Rehtorinpellonkatu 3, Turku, Finland aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Indicators Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 26/3(1992-05-01), 277-302 0303-8300 26:3<277 1992 26 11205 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer