Lauding the leisure class: Symbolic content and conspicuous consumption

Review of Social Economy

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 277-289

  Shipman, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bourdieu; Brands; Conspicuous consumption; Cultural capital; Environment; Globalization; Veblen

Indexed keywords

EID: 6344231710     PISSN: 00346764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0034676042000253909     Document Type: Article

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