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发表于2024-11-22
The Sum of Small Things pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024
How the leisure class has been replaced by a new elite, and how their consumer habits affect us all In today's world, the leisure class has been replaced by a new elite.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.
Elizabeth Currid-Halkett is the James Irvine Chair in Urban and Regional Planning and professor of public policy at the University of Southern California. She is the author of The Warhol Economy and Starstruck . Her work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, New Yorker, and Wall Street Journal. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their two sons.
这个话题下为数不多的非学术又不胡扯的书。对英美社会都有观察,闲下来还要再仔细看
评分Emmmmm觉得作者把一篇论文就可以说清的观点硬是翻来覆去水成了一本书
评分书中说的 相比于中产阶级把大量的钱花在购买传统的奢侈品上,现代的高收入群体更愿意把钱花在教育、医疗、食品等看不见的方方面面。 其实只是富人阶层早就做到了 不可见消费只是小圈子内炫耀
评分其实就bourdieu的那一套
评分其实就bourdieu的那一套
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评分译者:吴万伟 20世纪70年代末期出现在20世纪90年代迅速发展的当今新锐阶级一直被称为“受到良好教育的精英”、“全球主义阶级”、“新既得利益者”、“创意阶级”、“贤能精英”、“擅长考试阶级”、“都市阶级”、“财富新面孔”、“劳工市场精英”、“新上层阶级”和“资产阶...
评分译者:吴万伟 20世纪70年代末期出现在20世纪90年代迅速发展的当今新锐阶级一直被称为“受到良好教育的精英”、“全球主义阶级”、“新既得利益者”、“创意阶级”、“贤能精英”、“擅长考试阶级”、“都市阶级”、“财富新面孔”、“劳工市场精英”、“新上层阶级”和“资产阶...
评分译者:吴万伟 20世纪70年代末期出现在20世纪90年代迅速发展的当今新锐阶级一直被称为“受到良好教育的精英”、“全球主义阶级”、“新既得利益者”、“创意阶级”、“贤能精英”、“擅长考试阶级”、“都市阶级”、“财富新面孔”、“劳工市场精英”、“新上层阶级”和“资产阶...
评分译者:吴万伟 20世纪70年代末期出现在20世纪90年代迅速发展的当今新锐阶级一直被称为“受到良好教育的精英”、“全球主义阶级”、“新既得利益者”、“创意阶级”、“贤能精英”、“擅长考试阶级”、“都市阶级”、“财富新面孔”、“劳工市场精英”、“新上层阶级”和“资产阶...
The Sum of Small Things pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024