Commodifying Fido: pets as status symbols
How are pets being used as status symbols to display social position and wealth? This paper seeks to theoretically examine pet owners and their use of animals to convey a message of social status, position and wealth. This will be done through an application of theoretical constructs by Veblen, Marx...
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2010
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-3068 http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-3068 |