Veblen in Perspective: His Life and ThoughtRoutledge, 01/06/2015 - 224 páginas This work discusses the impact and contemporary relevance of the work of Thorstein Veblen, as well as the source of his ideas. It suggests that he was one of the first modern sociologists of consumption whose analysis of contemporary display and fashion anticipated later theories and research. |
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... RADICAL INSTITUTIONALIST THEORIES OF PARTICIPATION AND DUALITY William M. Dugger and William T. Waller, Jr., editors A VEBLEN TREASURY FROM LEISURE CLASS TO WAR, PRICE, AND CAPITALISM Rick Tilman, editor ACTIVIST UNIONISM THE ...
... RADICAL INSTITUTIONALIST THEORIES OF PARTICIPATION AND DUALITY William M. Dugger and William T. Waller, Jr., editors A VEBLEN TREASURY FROM LEISURE CLASS TO WAR, PRICE, AND CAPITALISM Rick Tilman, editor ACTIVIST UNIONISM THE ...
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... radical critiques of capitalist society” (1963, 180–81). At a time when functionalism was dominant, I was hooked, and I resolved to read the two books cited by Berger and all Veblen's works when the opportunity arose. The opportunity to ...
... radical critiques of capitalist society” (1963, 180–81). At a time when functionalism was dominant, I was hooked, and I resolved to read the two books cited by Berger and all Veblen's works when the opportunity arose. The opportunity to ...
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... radical (e.g.,Goodwyn 1976) understandings of American populism, which taken together are symptomatic of what has been referred to as its “contradictions” (Diggins 1973, 42). Schimmer (1994) seems to favor the more recent radical ...
... radical (e.g.,Goodwyn 1976) understandings of American populism, which taken together are symptomatic of what has been referred to as its “contradictions” (Diggins 1973, 42). Schimmer (1994) seems to favor the more recent radical ...
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... radical moments, along with the industrial army movement, what was demanded was a change in government policy, not a “Marxian revolution” (McMurry 1970 [1929], 284). After all, notwithstanding its variegated geopolitical manifestations ...
... radical moments, along with the industrial army movement, what was demanded was a change in government policy, not a “Marxian revolution” (McMurry 1970 [1929], 284). After all, notwithstanding its variegated geopolitical manifestations ...
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... radical change and supported American capitalism to a greater or lesser extent; they merely disagreed about how best to progress it in order that its promise might be fulfilled. While Veblen, in one of his earliest articles, fully ...
... radical change and supported American capitalism to a greater or lesser extent; they merely disagreed about how best to progress it in order that its promise might be fulfilled. While Veblen, in one of his earliest articles, fully ...
Índice
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2 The Mistaken Marginality of the Man from Mars | 30 |
Ethnicity and Evolutionism | 57 |
Back to the Future? | 76 |
5 The Conspicuous Conservation of Leisure Class Culture | 101 |
Predatory Institutions | 117 |
Workmanship Institutions | 137 |
8 Conclusions | 160 |
References | 169 |
Index | 185 |
About the Author | 209 |
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