Elizabeth Currid-Halkett is the James Irvine Chair in Urban and Regional Planning and professor of public policy at the University of Southern California. She is the author of The Warhol Economy and Starstruck . Her work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, New Yorker, and Wall Street Journal. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their two sons.
发表于2024-12-22
The Sum of Small Things 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
译者:吴万伟 20世纪70年代末期出现在20世纪90年代迅速发展的当今新锐阶级一直被称为“受到良好教育的精英”、“全球主义阶级”、“新既得利益者”、“创意阶级”、“贤能精英”、“擅长考试阶级”、“都市阶级”、“财富新面孔”、“劳工市场精英”、“新上层阶级”和“资产阶...
评分译者:吴万伟 20世纪70年代末期出现在20世纪90年代迅速发展的当今新锐阶级一直被称为“受到良好教育的精英”、“全球主义阶级”、“新既得利益者”、“创意阶级”、“贤能精英”、“擅长考试阶级”、“都市阶级”、“财富新面孔”、“劳工市场精英”、“新上层阶级”和“资产阶...
评分译者:吴万伟 20世纪70年代末期出现在20世纪90年代迅速发展的当今新锐阶级一直被称为“受到良好教育的精英”、“全球主义阶级”、“新既得利益者”、“创意阶级”、“贤能精英”、“擅长考试阶级”、“都市阶级”、“财富新面孔”、“劳工市场精英”、“新上层阶级”和“资产阶...
评分译者:吴万伟 20世纪70年代末期出现在20世纪90年代迅速发展的当今新锐阶级一直被称为“受到良好教育的精英”、“全球主义阶级”、“新既得利益者”、“创意阶级”、“贤能精英”、“擅长考试阶级”、“都市阶级”、“财富新面孔”、“劳工市场精英”、“新上层阶级”和“资产阶...
评分译者:吴万伟 20世纪70年代末期出现在20世纪90年代迅速发展的当今新锐阶级一直被称为“受到良好教育的精英”、“全球主义阶级”、“新既得利益者”、“创意阶级”、“贤能精英”、“擅长考试阶级”、“都市阶级”、“财富新面孔”、“劳工市场精英”、“新上层阶级”和“资产阶...
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How the leisure class has been replaced by a new elite, and how their consumer habits affect us all In today's world, the leisure class has been replaced by a new elite.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 "conspicuous consumption," Veblen described upper-class frivolities: men who used walking sticks for show, and women who bought silver flatware despite the effectiveness of cheaper aluminum utensils. Now, Currid-Halkett argues, the power of material goods as symbols of social position has diminished due to their accessibility. As a result, the aspirational class has altered its consumer habits away from overt materialism to more subtle expenditures that reveal status and knowledge. And these transformations influence how we all make choices. With a rich narrative and extensive interviews and research, The Sum of Small Things illustrates how cultural capital leads to lifestyle shifts and what this forecasts, not just for the aspirational class but for everyone.
观点并不新颖,方法论、理论和写作方式和导师Sharon很接近,想要写成通俗读物。简单来说就是文化精英早就不再以物质作为炫耀性消费,而转向了非炫耀性的教育、医疗、健康、食物等生活/投资方式来巩固阶级基础,“不自觉”地再生产了不平等。最后为了升华主题跳跃到了全球中产阶级的崛起...
评分理论和方法论的槽就不吐了。作者大多数时候都在津津乐道于文化精英的恶趣味(还拿自己举例)。除了最后两三页,散落在各处不成体系的批判显得言不由衷。以及完全不懂 FT 的专栏作家哪只眼睛看出来川普是这本书「房间里的那头大象」的。
评分观点并不新颖,方法论、理论和写作方式和导师Sharon很接近,想要写成通俗读物。简单来说就是文化精英早就不再以物质作为炫耀性消费,而转向了非炫耀性的教育、医疗、健康、食物等生活/投资方式来巩固阶级基础,“不自觉”地再生产了不平等。最后为了升华主题跳跃到了全球中产阶级的崛起...
评分介于流行写作和严肃理论之间(更偏向前者)。她的论点是炫耀性消费的大众化以及随之带来的AC的兴起,佐以全球化和收入分配不公,论证里到底这是关于大众还是精英的理论一直游移不定。一会说「This new, dominant cultural elite can be called, quite simply, the aspirational class.」,一会又讲到这些只是「the democratization of conspicuous consumption has provided many more material goods to the middle class, but this change is to their detriment.」理论读的不行,故事说得一般般。
评分其实就bourdieu的那一套
The Sum of Small Things 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书