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Individual Lifestyle Consumption and Household Capitals in Four South-East European Countries in the Times of Crisis

This paper presents comparative lifestyle typologies based on cluster analysis of data on individual cultural consumption and household economic capital in four South-East European (SEE) countries (Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina). The data were obtained by nationally representative surveys carried out in 2015 within the project “Life-Strategies and Survival Strategies of Households and Individuals in South-East European Societies in the Times of Crisis” (SCOPES 152626). Central to the analysis are cultural and economic dimensions that figure prominently in Bourdieuan class theory. Cultural dimension is analyzed through individual cultural consumption (practices and preferences). The distinction between “omnivores” and “univores”, as used in the work of Peterson and his co- authors, as well as Donnat, has also proved helpful in the analysis. The economic dimension is approached at the household level because – in the researched context – this is judged to be the locus where choices, decisions and strategies relating to income are made. The analysis includes data on satisfaction with the economic status and strategies resorted to in the times of crisis. The resulting lifestyle typologies in four SEE countries bear resemblances that can in some respects be related to the socialist past and in some to the current (post-socialist or post- transitional) crisis context. Some of the divergences between the typologies seem to be attributable to longer-term trajectories of social development.

lifestyle consumption; cultural capital; South East Europe; crisis

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