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In his classic work The Theory of the Leisure Class ([1899] 2007), Thorstein Veblen argues that the conspicuous consumption of leisure is essential for people, typically the middle class, to demarcate their social status. Wealth in itself will not automatically grant respectability to rich people. Rather, it must be publicly exhibited so as to earn honorable status for its owners, and one way to exhibit wealth is by engaging in manifest leisure. Veblen expounds:
在他的经典著作《有闲阶级理论》(The Theory of The Leisure Class，[1899] 2007)中，Thorstein Veblen认为，对休闲的炫耀性消费对人们来说是必不可少的，尤其是中产阶级，以区分他们的社会地位。财富本身不会自动给富人带来体面。相反，它必须被公开展示，以便为它的所有者赢得荣誉地位，而展示财富的一种方式是参与明显的休闲活动。维布伦阐述:
期刊介绍：
Nineteenth-Century Contexts is committed to interdisciplinary recuperations of “new” nineteenth centuries and their relation to contemporary geopolitical developments. The journal challenges traditional modes of categorizing the nineteenth century by forging innovative contextualizations across a wide spectrum of nineteenth century experience and the critical disciplines that examine it. Articles not only integrate theories and methods of various fields of inquiry — art, history, musicology, anthropology, literary criticism, religious studies, social history, economics, popular culture studies, and the history of science, among others.
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