SOC 525 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Conspicuous Leisure, Conspicuous Consumption, Protestant Work Ethic
17 Mar 2016
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Gender is binary, their either males or females. The concept of liminality works to break open our opinions to all sorts of ideas, words have different meaning to different people. Examples: confessions of a shopaholic, what not to wear, sex in the city, say yes to the dress, the devil wears prada. Veblen was writing at the end of the 19th century, where shopping was emerging as a leisure activity. Shopping for fun was a radical departure from what had previously existed, strong protestant work ethic. This idea of denying yourself of worldly pleasures, he was noticing a departure of this as people become to shop to highlight their social class position, whereas become people would prefer saving. This was named as the rise of the leisure class, this is people that don"t need to work for their money, they have just inherited the money.
