SOC231H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Jim Crow Laws, Georg Simmel, Islamophobia
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He argues fashion increasingly become a social marker of modern capitalism society. Fashion plays a conspicuous role in modern time, attenuate modern standard. The more nervous the age the more rapidly it change. This is particularly to the upper class, upper class use it to distinct themselves and lower class tries to catch up. Upper and middle class has upper income they have latest fashion and buy these expensive fashion products. Top-down model, upper class tend to drive lower class accelerated speed in the society, in the fashion as well. Mass democracy has bring out democratized fashion, accessible and affordable to a lot of people. Fashion always changing creates a society that is accelerating. It"s about the change and the update, not about particular fashion. Study of forms of interaction, paradoxes and interventions that are in interaction. Simmel argues social grouping tend to identify particular groups and expectations of behavior.
