• Search Research Projects
  • Search Researchers
  • How to Use
  1. Back to previous page

Industrialization and Derign

Research Project

Project/Area Number 07630066
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Economic history
Research InstitutionThe University of Tokyo

Principal Investigator

KUSAMITSU Toshio  The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 大学院・総合文化研究科, 教授 (90225136)

Project Period (FY) 1995 – 1996
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1996)
Budget Amount *help
¥1,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000)
Fiscal Year 1996: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 1995: ¥1,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000)
Keywordsconsumption / consummer society / virtue / manner / luxury / marketplace / 工業化 / デザイン / アパレル / アパレル産業
Research Abstract

In the last twenty years or so we have witnessed the publication of a large number of studies featuring consumption and market as a central theme. These are not only works by economic and social historians, but more traditional political historians, historians of political and economic thought, and cultural historians as well have all pioneered the new terrain of research by focusing on consumption as their keyword. These works can be located within some of much larger attempts at rewriting the history of modern Britain that examine the transformation from the ancien regime of traditional society to modern commercial society, from traditional virtue to modern civility. Indeed some of these authors seem to have changed the traditional understanding of history and have created a new paradigm.
Until a few decades ago economic history had more or less focused on the production side of economic activities. Economic historians were concerned with capital formation, economic growth, technological inventions and innovations, technological transfer and so on, and the main current of research had been the analysis of industrial structure.
When one takes account of the international dimension of economic development and the intercourse of material complex, however, the production/supply side history has proved itself to be insufficient in describing the dynamics of economic activities, world-system school, originated by Fernand Braudel and developed by Immanuel Wallerstein etc., has developed a theory of closely knit network of world economy that has evolved the consumption of material goods as an important driving force of economic growth.

Report

(3 results)
  • 1996 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1995 Annual Research Report

URL: 

Published: 1995-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

Information User Guide FAQ News Terms of Use Attribution of KAKENHI

Powered by NII kakenhi