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The Theory of the Leisure Class (Annotated)

Author : Thorstein Veblen
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book The Theory of the Leisure Class (Annotated) written by Thorstein Veblen and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-03-14 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions (1899), by Thorstein Veblen, is a treatise on economics and a detailed social critique of conspicuous consumption, based on social class and consumerism, derived from social stratification. of people and the division of labor, which are social institutions of the feudal period (9 to 15 c.) that have continued until the modern era. Veblen claims that the contemporary lords of the mansion, the entrepreneurs who own the means of production, have been employed in the economically unproductive practices of conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure, which are useless activities that contribute neither to the economy nor to production material of the useful goods and services required for the functioning of society, while it is the middle class and the working class that usefully work in the industrialized and productive occupations that support the whole of society.Conducted in the late 1800s, Veblen's socioeconomic analyzes of business cycles and the consequent pricing policy of the U.S. economy and the emerging division of labor, by technocratic specialty (scientist, engineer, technologist, etc.), proved to be predictions. precise and sociological of the economic structure of an industrial society.

Spaces of Consumption

Author : Jon Stobart
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136021183
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Spaces of Consumption written by Jon Stobart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consumption is well established as a key theme in the study of the eighteenth century. Spaces of Consumption brings a new dimension to this subject by looking at it spatially. Taking English towns as its scene, this inspiring study focuses on moments of consumption – selecting and purchasing goods, attending plays, promenading – and explores the ways in which these were related together through the spaces of the town: the shop, the theatre and the street. Using this fresh form of analysis, it has much to say about sociability, politeness and respectability in the eighteenth century.

Leisure and Consumption

Author : R. Stebbins
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230244866
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Leisure and Consumption written by R. Stebbins and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-08-28 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of consumption has never seriously examined the role of leisure. This ambitious, agenda-setting study, provides the most in-depth examination of the relationship between the two to date, drawing on the serious leisure perspective and outlining a new conceptual framework for analyzing consumption for leisure.

Improving the Measurement of Consumer Expenditures

Author : Christopher D. Carroll
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022612665X
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Improving the Measurement of Consumer Expenditures written by Christopher D. Carroll and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robust and reliable measures of consumer expenditures are essential for analyzing aggregate economic activity and for measuring differences in household circumstances. Many countries, including the United States, are embarking on ambitious projects to redesign surveys of consumer expenditures, with the goal of better capturing economic heterogeneity. This is an appropriate time to examine the way consumer expenditures are currently measured, and the challenges and opportunities that alternative approaches might present. Improving the Measurement of Consumer Expenditures begins with a comprehensive review of current methodologies for collecting consumer expenditure data. Subsequent chapters highlight the range of different objectives that expenditure surveys may satisfy, compare the data available from consumer expenditure surveys with that available from other sources, and describe how the United States’s current survey practices compare with those in other nations.

Time for Things

Author : Stephen D. Rosenberg
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674979516
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Time for Things written by Stephen D. Rosenberg and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern life is full of stuff yet bereft of time. An economic sociologist offers an ingenious explanation for why, over the past seventy-five years, Americans have come to prefer consumption to leisure. Productivity has increased steadily since the mid-twentieth century, yet Americans today work roughly as much as they did then: forty hours per week. We have witnessed, during this same period, relentless growth in consumption. This pattern represents a striking departure from the preceding century, when working hours fell precipitously. It also contradicts standard economic theory, which tells us that increasing consumption yields diminishing marginal utility, and empirical research, which shows that work is a significant source of discontent. So why do we continue to trade our time for more stuff? Time for Things offers a novel explanation for this puzzle. Stephen Rosenberg argues that, during the twentieth century, workers began to construe consumer goods as stores of potential free time to rationalize the exchange of their labor for a wage. For example, when a worker exchanges his labor for an automobile, he acquires a duration of free activity that can be held in reserve, counterbalancing the unfree activity represented by work. This understanding of commodities as repositories of hypothetical utility was made possible, Rosenberg suggests, by the advent of durable consumer goods—cars, washing machines, refrigerators—as well as warranties, brands, chain stores, and product-testing magazines, which assured workers that the goods they purchased would not be subject to rapid obsolescence. This theory clarifies perplexing aspects of behavior under industrial capitalism—the urgency to spend earnings on things, the preference to own rather than rent consumer goods—as well as a variety of historical developments, including the coincident rise of mass consumption and the legitimation of wage labor.

The Theory of the Leisure Class

Author : Thorstein Veblen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theory of the Leisure Class written by Thorstein Veblen and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS: An Economic Study of American Institutions and a Social Critique of Conspicuous Consumption

Author : Thorstein Veblen
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Book Synopsis THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS: An Economic Study of American Institutions and a Social Critique of Conspicuous Consumption by : Thorstein Veblen

Download or read book THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS: An Economic Study of American Institutions and a Social Critique of Conspicuous Consumption written by Thorstein Veblen and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2024-01-10 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thorstein Veblen's 'The Theory of the Leisure Class' is a seminal work that delves into the economic and social dynamics of American society. Written in a satirical and critical tone, Veblen dissects the concept of conspicuous consumption and the role of the leisure class in perpetuating societal inequalities. His sharp analysis of the wasteful spending and social status symbols sheds light on the underlying power structures at play in the American capitalist system. Veblen's writing style is both academic and witty, making the book both insightful and engaging for readers interested in economics and sociology. This book is a must-read for those who seek a deeper understanding of societal norms and the impact of consumer culture on modern society. Veblen's unique perspective and keen observations offer valuable insights that are still relevant today.

India’s Middle Class

Author : Christiane Brosius
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136704841
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book India’s Middle Class written by Christiane Brosius and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is one of the first ethnographic studies to examine the complexities of lifestyles of the the upwardly mobile middle classes in India in the new millennium. It reveals an original theory on cosmopolitan Indianness and urbanisation in the age of globalisation.

Serious Leisure and Nature

Author : L. Davidson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230299377
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Serious Leisure and Nature written by L. Davidson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leisure activities undertaken in nature are immensely popular. This book examines the new serious leisure concept of nature challenge activity (NCA), exploring how NCA unfolds in an aesthetically appealing natural environment with implications for consumption and environmental sustainability.

The Theory of the Leisure Class

Author : Thorstein Veblen
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 3986474412
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Theory of the Leisure Class written by Thorstein Veblen and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-10-20 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen - The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions (1899), by Thorstein Veblen, is a treatise on economics and a detailed, social critique of conspicuous consumption, as a function of social class and of consumerism, derived from the social stratification of people and the division of labour, which are social institutions of the feudal period (9th15th c.) that have continued to the modern era.Veblen asserts that the contemporary lords of the manor, the businessmen who own the means of production, have employed themselves in the economically unproductive practices of conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure, which are useless activities that contribute neither to the economy nor to the material production of the useful goods and services required for the functioning of society, while it is the middle class and the working class who are usefully employed in the industrialised, productive occupations that support the whole of society.

Theory of the Leisure Class

Author : Thorstein Veblen
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368266446
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (682 download)

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Download or read book Theory of the Leisure Class written by Thorstein Veblen and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

For Fun and Profit

Author : Richard Butsch
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780877227403
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (274 download)

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Download or read book For Fun and Profit written by Richard Butsch and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the nineteenth century, leisure industries emerged to provide recreation and entertainment to Americans of all classes. Entertainment has become a multi-billion dollar industry. The essays collected here explore the transformation this wrought in leisure and analyze its effects on class relations in American society.

Spaces of Consumption

Author : Jon Stobart
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136021108
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Spaces of Consumption written by Jon Stobart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consumption is well established as a key theme in the study of the eighteenth century. Spaces of Consumption brings a new dimension to this subject by looking at it spatially. Taking English towns as its scene, this inspiring study focuses on moments of consumption – selecting and purchasing goods, attending plays, promenading – and explores the ways in which these were related together through the spaces of the town: the shop, the theatre and the street. Using this fresh form of analysis, it has much to say about sociability, politeness and respectability in the eighteenth century.

Consuming Knowledge: Studying Knowledge Use in Leisure and Work Activities

Author : Steven D. Silver
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 146154615X
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book Consuming Knowledge: Studying Knowledge Use in Leisure and Work Activities written by Steven D. Silver and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is difficult to overstate the importance of personal consumption both to individual consumers and to the economy. While consumer&, are recognized as valuing market goods and services for the activities they can construct from them in the frameworks of several disciplines, consequences of the characteristics of goods and services they use in these activities have not been well studied. In the discourse to follow, I will contrast knowledge-yielding and conventional goods and services as factors in the construction of activities that consumers engage in when they are not in the workplace. Consumers will be seen as deciding on non-work activities and the inputs to these activities according to their objectives, and the values and cumulated skills they hold. I will suggest that knowledge content in these activities can be efficient for consumer objectives and also have important externalities through its effect on productivity at work and economic growth. The exposition will seek to elaborate these points and contribute to multi disciplinal dialogue on consumption. It takes as its starting point the contention that consumption is simultaneously an economic and social psychological process and that integration of content can contribute to explanation.

Histories of Leisure

Author : Rudy Koshar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781350048355
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (483 download)

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Download or read book Histories of Leisure written by Rudy Koshar and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the wake of the American and French revolutions, European culture saw the evolution of a new leisure regime never previously enjoyed. Now we speak of modern leisure societies, but the history of leisure, its experiences and expectations, its scope and variability, still remains largely a matter of conjecture. One message that has emerged from a multiplicity of disciplines is that research on leisure and consumption opens up a hitherto untapped mine of information on the broader issues of politics, society, culture and economics. How have leisure regimes in Europe evolved since the eighteenth century? Why has leisure culture crystallized around particular practices, sites and objects? Above all, what sorts of connections and meanings have been inscribed in leisure practices, and how might these be compared across time and space? This book is the first to provide an historical overview of modern leisure in a wide range of manifestations: travel, entertainment, sports, fashion, 'taste' and much more. It will be essential reading for anyone wishing to know more about European history and culture or simply how people spent their free time before the age of television and the internet."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

The Sum of Small Things

Author : Elizabeth Currid-Halkett
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400884691
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Sum of Small Things written by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the leisure class has been replaced by a new elite, and how their consumer habits affect us all In today’s world, the leisure class has been replaced by a new elite. Highly educated and defined by cultural capital rather than income bracket, these individuals earnestly buy organic, carry NPR tote bags, and breast-feed their babies. They care about discreet, inconspicuous consumption—like eating free-range chicken and heirloom tomatoes, wearing organic cotton shirts and TOMS shoes, and listening to the Serial podcast. They use their purchasing power to hire nannies and housekeepers, to cultivate their children’s growth, and to practice yoga and Pilates. In The Sum of Small Things, Elizabeth Currid-Halkett dubs this segment of society “the aspirational class” and discusses how, through deft decisions about education, health, parenting, and retirement, the aspirational class reproduces wealth and upward mobility, deepening the ever-wider class divide. Exploring the rise of the aspirational class, Currid-Halkett considers how much has changed since the 1899 publication of Thorstein Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class. In that inflammatory classic, which coined the phrase “conspicuous consumption,” Veblen described upper-class frivolities: men who used walking sticks for show, and women who bought silver flatware despite the effectiveness of cheaper aluminum utensils. Now, Currid-Halkett argues, the power of material goods as symbols of social position has diminished due to their accessibility. As a result, the aspirational class has altered its consumer habits away from overt materialism to more subtle expenditures that reveal status and knowledge. And these transformations influence how we all make choices. With a rich narrative and extensive interviews and research, The Sum of Small Things illustrates how cultural capital leads to lifestyle shifts and what this forecasts, not just for the aspirational class but for everyone.

Handbook Of The Sociology Of Youth In Brics Countries

Author : Tom Dwyer
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9813148403
Total Pages : 1141 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Handbook Of The Sociology Of Youth In Brics Countries written by Tom Dwyer and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2017-11-08 with total page 1141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Youth are, by definition, the future. This book brings initial analyses to bear on youth in the five BRICS countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, which are home to nearly half of the world's youth. Very little is known about these youth outside of their own countries since the mainstream views on 'youth' and 'youth culture' are derived from the available literature on youth in the industrialized West, which is home to a small part of the world's youth. This book aims to help fill in this gap.The handbook examines the state of youth, their past, present and permits the development of insights about future. The BRICS countries have all engaged in development processes and some remarkable improvements in young people's lives over recent decades are documented. However, the chapters also show that these gains can be undermined by instabilities, poor decisions and external factors in those countries. Periods of economic growth, political progress, cultural opening up and subsequent reversals rearticulate differently in each society. The future of youth is sharply impacted by recent transformations of economic, political and social realities. As new opportunities emerge and the influence of tradition on youth's lifestyles weakens and as their norms and values change, the youth enter into conflict with dominant expectations and power structures.The topics covered in the book include politics, education, health, employment, leisure, Internet, identities, inequalities and demographics. The chapters provide original insights into the development of the BRICS countries, and place the varied mechanisms of youth development in context. This handbook serves as a reference to those who are interested in having a better understanding of today's youth. Readers will become acquainted with many issues that are faced today by young people and understand that through fertile dialogues and cooperation, youth can play a role in shaping the future of the world.