Consumption Space Availability And Its Formation Mechanism Under The Perspective Of Daily Life Practice

The study of consumption space availability contributes to understand the position of the different income communities in the society and power structure,to analyze their experience in the consumption space,and further provide guidance for shaping consumption spaces with highly accessibility.This paper believes that,a public space with availability should be an accessible and available place in the physical space and social space level for different groups,therefore this study advocate the "humanistic"planning of city space.This provides great practical significance and application value for changing the unequal urban space pattern,and enhancing the equity of social space.This paper selects three differentiated cases namely Shiliuxincun,Caoduxiang,Jindingwan,which on behalf of the lower income communities,middle income communities and higher income communities residential areas respectively under the Chaotiangong Subdistrict,then study the consumption space availability of the residents who live in the three cases.The random sampling questionnaire survey method is used to collect the related data in this paper,and then evaluate consumption space availability from the"material space level" and "perceptive space level".The consumption space availability evaluation in"material space" level is operated from four dimensions of consuming place grade,consuming place quantity,temporal distance from residences to consuming places,and consumption activities frequency.The consumption space availability evaluation in "perceptive space" level is operated from two dimensions of economic distance and cultural distance.the results about consumption space availability indicate that,the different social groups who live under the similar locational conditions with the same material space distance tend to use the urban spaces which are appropriate to their social identities,they cannot use the consumption space resources equally.Then considering the situational characteristics of practice,this paper holds that,the effective consumption space availability study should be placed under certain situation.Furthermore,Specific situation may magnify the availability differences.Therefore,this study use a case study of consumer activities under the significant interference(smog days),to explore the causes of differentiated consumption space availibity for the different income communitieses.The different income communitieses have differentiated consumption activity ways in struggling against the smog,because they have diffenent capacity in breaking through the restrictions.The higher income communities,that has strong economic ability and diversity of social network resources,have a greater degree of freedom,and can struggling against the harm of smog positively.The middle income communities,that has the economic income in relative enough,can struggling against the harm of smog positively,as well as pursue the consumption ways which are useful for their own development.The lower income communities,that has weak economic ability,limited social networks,has very poor capacity in struggling against bad weather,and makes passive compromises in their behavior decision-making.Finally,this paper constructs the formation mechanism of consumption practice withBourdieu’s theories of practice,to explore the potentially differentiated constitution of consumption practice relationships among different income communitieses.According to four concepts of field,habitus,capital and strategy,in the theory of practice,this paper constructs the theoretical framework of the residents’ consumption practice,from the dimensions of different income communities habitus,capital(mainly for the economic,social and cultural capital)and strategies in the daily life field.This study suggests that,the different income communitieses have differentiated needs under the subconscious function of habitus,and then they apply their own capital to different consumption activities under the transformation of strategy,eventually the differentiated consumption practice patterns in the daily life field are constituted.