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A matter of taste : how names, fashions, and culture change / Stanley Lieberson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2000]Copyright date: ©2000Description: xvi, 334 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0300083858
  • 9780300083859
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.13 21
LOC classification:
  • CS2367 .L54 2000
Contents:
Tastes : why do they become what they become? -- Becoming a fashion -- How the social order influences names after they become a matter of taste--and how it doesn't -- The ratchet effect -- Other internal mechanisms -- Models of the fashion process -- Ethnic and racial groups -- Entertainment and entertainers -- Broader issues : the cultural surface and cultural change.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-316) and index.

Tastes : why do they become what they become? -- Becoming a fashion -- How the social order influences names after they become a matter of taste--and how it doesn't -- The ratchet effect -- Other internal mechanisms -- Models of the fashion process -- Ethnic and racial groups -- Entertainment and entertainers -- Broader issues : the cultural surface and cultural change.

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