Beschreibung:
The analysis of social distinction cannot indefinitely remain confined to logics of reasoning that are markedly ethnocentric. Rather than just applying the consecrated schemes of Veblen or Bourdieu, Daloz provides new foundations in this book for understanding 21st Century Dubai, China, Russia and settings of the past.
The analysis of social distinction cannot indefinitely remain confined to logics of reasoning that are markedly ethnocentric. Rather than just applying the consecrated schemes of Veblen or Bourdieu, Daloz provides new foundations in this book for understanding 21st Century Dubai, China, Russia and settings of the past.
1. Introductory Chapter: From Sources of Dissatisfaction to Constructive Propositions 2. On Ostentation and Understatement 3. Exploring Socio-Political Aspects 4. Reference Models in the Eye of the Comparativist 5. From Symbolic Consistency to Synecdochic Strategies 6. Utilitarian Dimensions - Symbolic Dimensions 7. 'Distinction through Taste' Revisited 8. Strategic or Unconscious Grounds?