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  • This paper relates to an ongoing debate on social structuration of everyday life behavior, contrasting Bourdieu's homology thesis with an individualization or decoupling thesis, as presented by Ulrich Beck. According to Bourdieu, there is a universal mechanism by which social status differentiates daily habits, especially consumption tastes and decisions. In addition to economic position, cultural resources should be significant in this process. In contrast, the individualization thesis assumes that modernization processes will resolve status homology. To provide a test of these contradictory hypotheses, a homology model has been estimated for two countries with contrasting modernization levels and pathways, namely Turkey, a traditional society with recent efforts towards transformations to liberal market economy; and Germany, a highly modernized welfare state; and Greece, a south eastern European society with modernization levels lower than Germany, but higher than Turkey, is taken as a comparison. Household Budget Survey data collected in 2003 (Germany, Turkey) and in 1998 (Greece), were used to estimate commodity specific homology models. Results support the assumption that social status, especially based on educational status, mostly effects consumption inequality in Turkey and least in Germany. Further, it was found that commodities reveal differential social status inequality. This points to socio-historical changes of commodities' distinctive power. (xsd:string)
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  • Societal Conditions of Consumptive Social Status Homology. Inequality of Household Equipment in Turkey, Greece and Germany (xsd:string)
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