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  1. Unmaking Veblen.Stephen Turner - 2021 - Journal of Classical Sociology 22 (1).
    This is a long review of Charles Camic's book on Veblen in which he argues that Veblen was basically a conventional academic economist, in contrast to his depiction in such standard works as those of Joseph Dorfman. However, this account omits much of Veblen's career, on the grounds that during the period after he left Stanford he was not in a prestigious academic setting. So the analysis is circular: he ignores most of Veblen's work on then (...)
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  2. Conspicuous confusion? A critique of veblen's theory of conspicuous consumption.Colin Campbell - 1995 - Sociological Theory 13 (1):37-47.
    Veblen's concept of conspicuous consumption, although widely known and commonly invoked, has rarely been examined critically; the associated "theory" has never been tested. It is suggested that the reason for this lies in the difficulty of determining the criterion that defines the phenomenon, a difficulty that derives from Veblen's failure to integrate two contrasting conceptual formulations. These are, first, an interpretive or subjective version that conceives of conspicuous consumption as action marked by the presence of certain intentions, purposes, (...)
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  3. Goffmanian Analysis of Consumerism (With Veblen/Bourdieu Synthesis).Coraline Empson - manuscript
    This essay was my first ever at the University of Sheffield. In it, I analyse consumerism using Goffman's interaction order, then loop this in with Marx, Veblen and Bourdieu, all of which I argue are "instances of Goffmanian macrosociology". Final grade was first class honours, word limit 1,500. -/- Ideas expressed in this essay have since turning into a separate paper I am working in which I present a Bourdieusien-Goffmanian Relativity theory of Interaction. This paper misses out later ideas (...)
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  4. Enacting and exploring ideas in fiction: The Overstory and The Portable Veblen.Donald Nordberg - forthcoming - New Writing.
    Philosophically engaged fiction often employs ideas in ways that reflect the exploitation-exploration dilemma in developmental psychology: by exploiting well articulated theories by enacting their conflicts, or by exploring the uncertainties of puzzling ontologies or moral complexities. We can see this in action in many works, but some novels of ideas seek to defy such categorization, with lessons for readers and writers. This paper analyzes two recent works – The Overstory by Richard Powers (2018) and Elizabeth McKenzie’s The Portable Veblen (...)
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  5. The Road from “Vocation”: Weber and Veblen on the Purposelessness of Scholarship.Stephen Turner - 2019 - Journal of Classical Sociology 19 (3): 229 –253.
    “Science as a Vocation” describes an ideal of scholarship for a vanished world. Images of the past university still color our idea of the university. Weber dispelled illusions about the university of his own time, and pointed to its cruelty and irrationality. Veblen did something similar for the American university of his time, defended a similar ideal, and foresaw the effects of disciplinarization and the quantification of academic life. They both provide insights into the ways in which the autonomy (...)
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    Veblen’in Adalet ve İktisadi Adalet Anlayışı.Y. Alkan - 2026 - Ekonomik Ve Sosyal Araştırmalar Dergisi 22 (1):36-50.
    Thorstein Bunde Veblen, zamanının sosyoekonomik yapılarını eleştirel şekilde inceleyen öncü bir ekonomist ve sosyologdur. Veblen’in adalet ve iktisadi adalet anlayışı, kapitalizme ve onun ortaya çıkardığı toplumsal yapılara yönelik eleştirisiyle iç içedir. O, adaleti yalnızca yasal veya ahlaki bir kavram olarak değil, kaynakların ve fırsatların eşit dağıtımıyla karakterize edilen sosyoekonomik bir durum olarak görmüştür. Kapitalist sistemi eleştirmiştir; kapitalist sistemin, gösterişçi tüketim ve boş zaman sınıfı gibi mekanizmalar aracılığıyla doğal olarak eşitsizliği ve adaletsizliği beslediğine inanmıştır. Veblen’in yaklaşımına göre, iktisadi (...)
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  7. Chicago Schools of Thought: Disciplines as Skewed Bureaucratic Intellect.Eugene Halton - 2012 - Sociological Origins 1 (8):5-14.
    The author criticizes ways in which academic disciplines can be viewed as skewed toward bureaucratized intellect and its requirements and rewards, rather than toward scholarly intellectual life and research. Drawing from the Chicago traditions of sociology and philosophical pragmatism, as well as his own experience of them, Halton goes on to appraise ways in which these traditions have tended to become contracted to limited textbook canons. Donald Levine’s Visions of the Sociological Tradition provides a case in which the broad influences (...)
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  8. Teorie kulturní mezery: sociální věda a její publikum v díle Thorsteina Veblena a Williama F. Ogburna.Jan Balon - 2017 - Teorie Vědy / Theory of Science 39 (1):57-81.
    Článek se zaměřuje na teorie kulturní mezery, jež ve svém díle rozpracovali Thorstein Veblen a William F. Ogburn. Sleduje přitom zejména dva motivy: jak se v přístupech těchto autorů tematizuje vztah sociální vědy a jejího publika a jak je argument mezery využit k prosazování specifického pojetí „účelu“ sociální vědy. Je zde předvedeno, jak se ve dvou různých stylech psaní a ve dvou různých argumentačních strategiích v podstatě identická teorie proměňuje a současně zužitkovává k prosazení distinktivního pojetí sociální vědy. Veblenův (...)
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  9. The pecuniary animus of the university.John Hutnyk - 2021 - Educational Philosophy and Theory 53 (4):327-337.
    This essay suggests an alternative accountability process on the basis of critiques of current evaluation practice in higher education. Using cases in the British university system, with some international commentary and thinking through experience in Asian universities in four countries in the wake of ‘audit culture’, the work of Thorstein Bunde Veblen is revived. With Veblen, the current structures and mechanics of the corporate and fully-monetised university might once more be challenged. The risk of importing the metrics and (...)
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  10. Technology appropriation in a de-growing economy.Lukáš Likavčan & Manuel Scholz-Wäckerle - 2018 - Journal of Cleaner Production 197 (2):1666-1675.
    This article proposes a concept of technology appropriation as a means of ideological repurposing of technology in a de-growing economy. Its economic and institutional foundations are set forth using an endogenous theory of economic development in the spirit of Marx, Schumpeter and Veblen. Technological and institutional change lead interdependently to the emergence of socio-technical complexes which are subject to ideological appropriation. These complexes are analyzed as actor-networks from an ontological perspective and exemplified using special cases in the information and (...)
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  11. Symbolic Value, Conditioned Desire, and the Unconscious Reproduction of Consumer Civilization: Inflation, Marketing, and the Cycle of Conditioned Desire.Mayank Singh - manuscript
    This paper explores the philosophical relationship between inflation, marketing systems, and the reproduction of conditioned desire in contemporary consumer civilization. It argues that inflation is frequently misunderstood as the rising price of goods, whereas it fundamentally represents the declining value of money as a symbolic measurement of exchange. Through everyday economic observations, the study demonstrates how individuals misinterpret fluctuations in purchasing power as changes in the intrinsic value of commodities. -/- The paper further analyzes marketing as a mechanism that transfers (...)
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  12. Empirische Ästhetik: Kognitiv-semiotische Prozesse der Wirklichkeits-Konstruktion in Alltag, Kunst und Design.Klaus Schwarzfischer - 2016 - Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovac.
    Teil I »Psychologische Ästhetik für transdisziplinäres Design« -/- Kapitel I »Empirische Ästhetik – Der Konflikt zwischen leichter Verarbeitbarkeit, sparsamer Codierung und neuronaler Aktivierung im Beobachtersystem. Eine Untersuchung über das Wesen der ästhetischen Erfahrung. -/- Jede Designpraxis verlangt täglich eine Vielzahl von Entscheidungen, welche die Wahl von „Etwas vor dem Hintergrund anderer Möglichkeiten“ darstellen. Diese lassen sich als Probleme einer Präferenz-Ästhetik interpretieren, wobei innerhalb eines Repertoires von Alternativen die attraktivste gewählt wird. Eine empirische Ästhetik ist somit ein notwendiger Bestandteil von Designtheorie. (...)
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  13. O Pensamento Social dos Estados Unidos: uma abordagem histórica.Emanuel Isaque Cordeiro da Silva - manuscript
    HISTÓRIA DA SOCIOLOGIA: O DESENVOLVIMENTO DA SOCIOLOGIA I A SOCIOLOGIA NOS ESTADOS UNIDOS HISTORY OF SOCIOLOGY: THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIOLOGY I SOCIOLOGY IN UNITED STATES Emanuel Isaque Cordeiro da Silva – IFPE-BJ, CAP-UFPE e UFRPE. E-mails: [email protected] e [email protected] WhatsApp: (82)9.8143-8399. PREMISSA A Sociologia nos Estados Unidos desenvolveu-se no contexto de dois grandes eventos que marcaram profundamente a história do país. O primeiro foi a Guerra de Secessão (também conhecida como Guerra Civil Americana), que ocorreu entre 1861 e 1865 e (...)
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