SOCL 3601 Study Guide - Geoffrey Hughes, Conspicuous Consumption, The Lonely Crowd
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Turner described people of the early 20th century as institutionals Culture lag: norms and values change more slowly than technology. Modern society produces impulsive people: want to try new things. Our sex, age, social class, religion, and race all play an important role in how we are treated. Ways that members of a group show other members of society they are with them. Thorston veblen created the idea of conspicuous consumption: buying things to show wealth/status in society. Ex: primer, working class people pronounce it as prime-er, upper class pronounces it as primmer Physiological differences: differences in the mouth, tongue, and larynx. African origin: idea that ebonics (ebony + phonics) comes from african culture. Dr. walter wolfram"s ocracoke island study: wanted to study generational differences in black people over time. Found that black/white speech differences were only present in black people that were in school after desegregation.
