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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Conspicuous Consumption"”.
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Conspicuous Consumption and American Political Behavior
… is susceptible to exploitation in the form of conspicuous consumption as defined by Thorstein Veblen. The analyses that follow will test the degree to which Americans who demonstrate more traditional forms of conspicuous consumption also tend to show more activity in political venues. While the …
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Conspicuous Consumption, Marketing, and Economic Development in Nigeria
… western-educated elite whose members engage in conspicuous consumption and are also known to have a high import-propensity. Their preference for imports, when both the imported and locally-made versions of the same product are equivalent, is often seen as one facet of conspicuous consumption …
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"Conspicuous Consumption:" Germs and Climate Cures in Denver, 1882-1915
<p>This thesis argues that the health-seeker’s quest for climatic cures persisted after the germ theory of disease began to alter medical approaches to tuberculosis after its announcement in 1882. Buoyed by anti-modern sentiments and a lack of effective medicinal interventions, physicians continued …
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"Conspicuous Consumption:" Germs and Climate Cures in Denver, 1882-1915
<p>This thesis argues that the health-seeker’s quest for climatic cures persisted after the germ theory of disease began to alter medical approaches to tuberculosis after its announcement in 1882. Buoyed by anti-modern sentiments and a lack of effective medicinal interventions, physicians continued …
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The Horse: Conspicuous Consumption of Embodied Masculinity in South Asia, 1600-1850
In this dissertation, I analyze the role the horse and horse culture played in early modern South Asia through the lens of the genre of horse treatises (<italic>farasnama</italic>) produced in the Subcontinent in Persian. My analysis of the <italic>farasnama</italic> ties in directly with the new …
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An investigation into conspicuous consumption in a transitional economy: A study of emerging urban Vietnamese consumers
Conspicuous consumption is an interesting facet of consumersa?? desire for worldly goods, and has both theoretical and managerial import for marketers and consumer researchers. This study investigates conspicuous consumption in the context of Vietnam, a transitional economy where the behavior is …
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Social media performance of user generated content and its relationship with conspicuous consumption: through the lens of the expectation confirmation theory
Early theories of conspicuous consumption proposed a framework in which individuals attempt to imitate the consumption patterns of others that maintain a higher social status. This results in individuals ostentatiously displaying their consumption patterns in order to reinforce their social status. …
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The rise of the 'Instagram economy' phenomenon in a South African context : An exploration of how conspicuous consumption on Instagram contributes to brand value creation
The number of brands using Instagram as a branding tool is steadily rising and so too is the rate of brand related consumer Interactions on social media. The sociocultural shifts in behavioural norms on Instagram have facilitated an increase in social word-of mouth that is surpassing traditional …
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The logic of practice - understanding the Chinese newly rich consumers' status consumption in luxury fashion clothes.
… power in the luxury sector through their conspicuous consumption. Chinese consumers lack of cultural capital and inexperience in the purchase and use of material commodities in the luxury consumption field has led many to associate their conspicuous consumption with pecuniary display of …
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O chyldren! Geue eare your duties to learne: The education of upper-class Englishwomen in late medieval and early modern England
… education was also based around play and conspicuous consumption. The sentiments of the twentieth-century slogans, ""if you've got it, flaunt it,"" and ""let the good times roll"" would not have seemed foreign to a fifteenth-century English aristocrat. These principles were adopted by …
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Blokes and cars : the construction of masculinities in Australian film / Rebecca Jane Johinke.
… that signifies power, freedom, escape, conspicuous consumption and control. The male characters in car crash films look to the streets and to the screen to enact blatent constructions of an overt mechanical masculinity, and the performative journey is mapped.
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Chinese Peasants on the Wheels of Change: Rural Reform and Its Impact in a Tianjin Village
… wealth was strongly encouraged by the state and conspicuous consumption was actively sought by most villagers.
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A PLURALISTIC APPROACH TO CONSUMER MORALITY
… have examined the influence of morality in consumption contexts, the extant research has largely assumed a monistic definition of morality. That is, the research has assumed that morality consists of harm/fairness concerns. Contrastingly, this dissertation introduces a pluralistic approach …
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The children of the aristocracy and squirearchy in 18th century England : a new era in parent-child relationships
… and privilege with the accompanying corollary of conspicuous consumption, in which children became an aspect of the outward and visible sign of the wealth and status of their parents. From mid-century onwards children's needs and concerns assumed a greater importance than heretofore. Their …
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The Road to Virtue and the Road to Fortune: The Scottish Enlightenment and the Problem of Individualism in Commercial Society
… problems at all. For instance, their analysis of conspicuous consumption or luxury indicated that it could inspire an individual's virtue by sensitizing him to the beautiful and the fitting. Second, they pointed out that commercial societies exhibit conflicting tendencies. Commerce can bring …
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THE TIES THAT BIND: SOCIAL COMPARISON’S INFLUENCE ON CONSUMER ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIORAL INTENTIONS
… literature suggests that consumers purchase and conspicuously use brands, not only for their functional benefits, but also for their psychological benefits. These psychological benefits can include reaffirmation of one’s status or group membership and increased self-esteem. Although previous …
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Built to Last: Exploring Family Strategy in Dynastic Business Families
… are associated with conflict, divisiveness, conspicuous consumption, and entitlement. On the other hand, dynastic business families employ people, produce and innovate products and processes, and give to community. Linked to values and enacted by strategic leaders, strategy organizes and …
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Explaning variation in luxury consumption
… PhD study extends the existing knowledge on the consumption of luxuries, by bringing together the conspicuous consumption and luxury consumption literature with self-concept and trait theory, in order to develop a conceptual framework that explains the phenomenon of luxury consumption from a …
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The final masquerade: a molecular-based approach to the identification of resinous plant exudates in Roman mortuary contexts in Britain and evaluation of their significance
… of the deceased and promoted remembrance through conspicuous consumption and sensory impact. Encoded with ritual meaning, they purified the body and facilitated the final rite of passage to the afterlife. The recovery of these resinous traces provides us with new insights into the treatment of the …
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Shanghai contemporary : the politics of built form
… been conceived as a cultural construction of the conspicuous consumption of global financial marketing and of ostentatious expenditure of the elite. Nostalgic hearkening back to the glory days of foreign occupation does not adequately explain the phenomenon that exists today. Central to the aim of …
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