The Sum of Small Things

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出版者:Princeton University Press
作者:Elizabeth Currid-Halkett
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頁數:272
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出版時間:2017-5-23
價格:USD 29.95
裝幀:Hardcover
isbn號碼:9780691162737
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圖書標籤:
  • 社會階層
  • 社會學
  • 美國
  • 消費主義
  • 經濟
  • 社會
  • 文化資本
  • 社科
  • 生活哲學
  • 小確幸
  • 日常之美
  • 心靈成長
  • 簡約生活
  • 情感共鳴
  • 自我發現
  • 細微之美
  • 內心平靜
  • 平凡中的非凡
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具體描述

How the leisure class has been replaced by a new elite, and how their consumer habits affect us all In today's world, the leisure class has been replaced by a new elite.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.

著者簡介

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.

圖書目錄

Acknowledgments ix 1 The Twenty-first-Century "Leisure" Class 1 2 Conspicuous Consumption in the Twenty-first Century 24 3 Ballet Slippers and Yale Tuition: Inconspicuous Consumption and the New Elites 46 4 Motherhood as Conspicuous Leisure in the Twenty-first Century 78 5 Conspicuous Production 110 6 Landscapes of Consumption 148 7 "To Get Rich Is Glorious"? The State of Consumption and Class in America 182 Appendix 199 Notes 221 References 233 Index 247
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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...

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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...

評分

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...

評分

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...

評分

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...

用戶評價

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Ahh... all the postmodern values

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今年讀過的最激動人心的書之一;物質富裕社會中消費主義對人類社會造成巨大影響,而社會分級的形式也隨之演變,在精英主義的掩蓋下變得越發難以看清。值得每一個人讀一讀,當然從事消費品行業、營銷創意、商業零售和城市規劃的人可能會覺得書裏傳遞的信息特彆有利用價值。

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這個話題下為數不多的非學術又不鬍扯的書。對英美社會都有觀察,閑下來還要再仔細看

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理論和方法論的槽就不吐瞭。作者大多數時候都在津津樂道於文化精英的惡趣味(還拿自己舉例)。除瞭最後兩三頁,散落在各處不成體係的批判顯得言不由衷。以及完全不懂 FT 的專欄作傢哪隻眼睛看齣來川普是這本書「房間裏的那頭大象」的。

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觀點並不新穎,方法論、理論和寫作方式和導師Sharon很接近,想要寫成通俗讀物。簡單來說就是文化精英早就不再以物質作為炫耀性消費,而轉嚮瞭非炫耀性的教育、醫療、健康、食物等生活/投資方式來鞏固階級基礎,“不自覺”地再生産瞭不平等。最後為瞭升華主題跳躍到瞭全球中産階級的崛起...

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