Credit cards as lifestyle facilitators

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dc.contributor.authorBernthal, Matthew J.
dc.contributor.authorCrockett, David
dc.contributor.authorRose, Randall L.
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-20T18:20:08Z
dc.date.available2022-06-20T18:20:08Z
dc.date.issued2005-06
dc.description.abstractCredit cards are an increasingly essential technology, but they carry with them the paradoxical capacity to propel consumers along lifestyle trajectories of marketplace freedom or constraint. We analyze accounts provided by consumers, credit counselors, and participants in a credit counseling seminar in order to develop a differentiated theory of lifestyle facilitation through credit card practice. The skills and tastes expressed by credit card practice help distinguish between the lifestyles of those with higher cultural capital relative to those with lower cultural capital. Differences in lifestyle regulation practice are posited to originate in cultural discourses related to entitlement and frugality.en_US
dc.identifier.citationBernthal, M. J., Crockett, D., & Rose, R. L. (2005). Credit cards as lifestyle facilitators. Journal of Consumer Research, 32(1), 130-145. https://doi.org/10.1086/429605en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=shib&db=bth&AN=17149325&site=eds-live&scope=site&custid=s5615486
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11416/638
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherOxford University Pressen_US
dc.subjectCredit cardsen_US
dc.subjectConsumer behavioren_US
dc.subjectLifestylesen_US
dc.titleCredit cards as lifestyle facilitatorsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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