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The importance of environments in status activities provides the basis for a seperate, but related inquiry into observed differences in the form they take across societies. Conjecture on the consequences of differences in the structure of environments for consumption that typify a society is studied in the narrative statements by members of comparison societies and in the content of print advertising in these societies. Evolutionary processes which could establish observed differences in structure across societies are also considered in both their systematic and random components. I review models of random drift and stochastic resonance as candidate forms for generating observed structure in environments. Directions for the subsequent study of status through consumption are discussed.P
- Introduction: Status Through Consumption;
- Knowledge Use in Nonwork Activities for Status;
- Interactions of Consumer Microprocessing and Structured Environments: Activity Feedback and the Stability of Structure;
- Awards and Honors Systems in Structured Environments: Cross Societal Comparisons of Narrative Statements on Consuming for Status;
- Comparative Analyses of Consumption Appeals in the Print Advertising of the USA and France, 1955-1991
- Random Process in the Generation of Structured Environments;
- Overview and directions for Study of Status Through Consumption.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Status Through Consumption
Book Subtitle: Dynamics of Consuming in Structured Environments
Authors: Steven D. Silver
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0983-7
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 2002
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-7001-3Published: 31 March 2002
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-5336-2Published: 23 October 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-0983-7Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 197
Topics: Public Economics, Microeconomics, Environmental Economics