Veblen

Question 1

Theory of the leisure class

Answer 1

Conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure (direct and indirect)

Question 2

Distinguish between clothing and fashion and 4 principles of fashion

Answer 2

Clothing: funtion is shelter and physical ease
Fashion: 
1 expensiveness
2 novelty
3 ineptitude
4 adornment

Question 3

Comments on veblen

Answer 3

• little empirical research
• trickle up?
• consensus on status symbols is no longer there
• idol of the sphere of production
• conspicuous non-consumption?

Question 4

Paradox of modernity and associates lifestyles

Answer 4

Modernity as machine culture( making goods, functionality and standardization)
Modernity as machine culture (making money, competition and differentiation, conspicuously doing nothing and consumption)
Lifestyles: comman man, controlled by machines
Elite: exemption from productive labor