| The Theory of the Leisure Class Contributor(s): Veblen, Thorstein (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798730827196 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $10.79 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2021 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Nonfiction | Social Science - Sociology |
| Dewey: 305.520 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.51" W x 8.5" (0.63 lbs) 220 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the sequence of cultural evolution the emergence of a leisure class coincides with the beginning of ownership. This is necessarily the case, for these two institutions result from the same set of economic forces. In the inchoate phase of their development they are but different aspects of the same general facts of social structure. It is as elements of social structure-conventional facts-that leisure and ownership are matters of interest for the purpose in hand. An habitual neglect of work does not constitute a leisure class; neither does the mechanical fact of use and consumption constitute ownership. The present inquiry, therefore, is not concerned with the beginning of indolence, nor with the beginning of the appropriation of useful articles to individual consumption. The point in question is the origin and nature of a conventional leisure class on the one hand and the beginnings of individual ownership as a conventional right or equitable claim on the other hand. |