Summary information

Study title

Consumption, Lifestyle and Identity: Reading the New Men's Lifestyle Magazines, 1985-1997

Creator

Stevenson, N., University of Sheffield, Department of Geography

Brooks, K., University of Sheffield, Department of Geography

Jackson, P., University of Sheffield, Department of Geography

Study number / PID

4543 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-4543-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.

This data collection comprises the interview material for the study 'Consumption, lifestyle and identity: reading the new men's lifestyle magazines', and includes focus group and individual interview transcripts. The study aimed to explore the new generation of men's lifestyle magazines, which emerged since the mid-1980s (including titles such as Loaded, FHM, GQ, Arena). The researchers sought to examine specific forms of masculinity as they varied by place, class, ethnicity and generation, and also to assess the extent to which variations in the magazines' content and the way they are read by different groups of men can be explained according to competing sociological theories of masculinity and the media. In addition to 20 focus group interviews with various groups of men and some women, five individual interviews with editors of representative magazines were also conducted.

Main Topics:

Topics covered include: readership of men's lifestyle magazines, gender, generations, age, identity, lifestyles, mass media, men, social class, consumption and identity within the focus group interviews, and career development and editorial policy in the editor interviews.

Leisure, tourism and sportGender and gender rolesMedia

AGECAREER DEVELOPMENTCONSUMPTIONEDITORSGENDERGENERATIONS (AGE)IDENTITYINTERVIEWS (DATA COLLECTION)LIFE STYLESMASS MEDIAMENPERIODICALS

Data collection period

01/01/1997

Country

England

Time dimension

Cross-sectional (one-time) study

Analysis unit

Individuals

Focus groups and individuals

National

Universe

Readers and editors of the new men's magazines

Sampling procedure

Purposive selection/case studies

Kind of data

Text

24 semi-structured interviews

Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview

focus group and individual interviews

Grant number

R000221838

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

2003

Terms of data access

The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.

Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.

Stevenson, N., Brooks, K. and Jackson, P. (2000) 'Ambivalence in men's lifestyle magazines' in F. Mort, D. Miller and M. Lowe (eds.), , Oxford: Berg Publishers, 189-212. ISBN185-9733824 | 978-1859733776
Jackson, P., Brooks, K. and Stevenson, N. (2001) Making sense of men's magazines, Cambridge: Polity Press.ISBN 074-5621767 | 978-0745621753
Brooks, K., Jackson, P. and Stevenson, N. (2003) 'Reading men's lifestyle magazines:: cultural power and the information society' in B. Benwell (ed.), , Oxford: Blackwell, 112-131. ISBN140-5114630 | 978-1405114639
Brooks, K., Stevenson, N. and Jackson, P. (2000) 'The politics of the 'new' men's lifestyle magazines', European Journal of Cultural Studies, 366-385
Jackson, P. (1991) 'Making sense of qualitative data' in M. Limb and C. Dwyer (eds.), , London: Routledge. ISBN034-0742267 | 978-0340742266
Stevenson, N., Brooks, K. and Jackson, P. (1999) 'Making sense of men's lifestyle magazines', Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 353-368
Brooks, K., Jackson, P. and Stevenson, N. (2006) 'The politics of the 'new' men's lifestyle magazines' in S. Whitehead (ed.), , London: Routledge. ISBN041-5368820 | 978-0415368827