Rethinking Veblen’s contribution to consumer research : a phenomenological enquiry into the perception of ‘status consumption’ by middle-income British consumers
The name of the American economist and social analyst Thorstein Veblen has been inextricably linked with the term “conspicuous consumption” referring to the competitive consumption practices and leisure activities that aim to indicate one’s membership in a superior social class. However, the ‘classi...
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University of Leicester
2010
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