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The Sum of Small Things : A Theory of the Aspirational Class by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett is a Agricultural and Biological Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Sum of Small Things : A Theory of the Aspirational Class about?
How the leisure class has been replaced by a new elite, and how their consumer habits affect us all In today's world, the leisure class has been replaced by a new elite.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 "co
Who reads The Sum of Small Things : A Theory of the Aspirational Class?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Agricultural and Biological Sciences.
- Author
- Elizabeth Currid-Halkett
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781400884698
- Field
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)