The Status Seekers
Author : Vance Packard
Publisher :
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 11,71 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Social classes
ISBN :
Author : Vance Packard
Publisher :
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 11,71 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Social classes
ISBN :
Author : Vance Packard
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,63 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Social classes
ISBN :
Author : Vance Packard
Publisher :
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 43,36 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Social classes
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Author : Daniel Horowitz
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 19,49 MB
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0807862118
Vance Packard's bestselling books--Hidden Persuaders (1957), Status Seekers (1959), and Waste Makers (1960)--taught the generation that came of age in the late 1950s and early 1960s about the dangers posed by advertising, social climbing, and planned obsolescence. Like Betty Friedan and William H. Whyte, Jr., Packard (1914- ) was a journalist who played an important role in the nation's transition from the largely complacent 1950s to the tumultuous 1960s. He was also one of the first social critics to benefit from and foster the newly energized social and political consciousness of this period. Based in part on interviews with Packard, Daniel Horowitz's intellectual biography focuses on the period during which Packard left magazine writing to author his most famous works of social criticism. Horowitz traces the influence of Packard's education and early years in rural Pennsylvania, providing a deeper understanding of his thought and his later books. Packard's life, Horowitz contends, illuminates the dilemmas of a freelance social critic without inherited wealth or academic affiliation. His career also expands our understanding of how one era shaped the next, underscoring how the adversarial 1960s drew on the mass culture of the previous decade. Originally published in 1994. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Author : Vance Packard
Publisher : Bedford/St. Martin's
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 11,28 MB
Release : 1995-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780312111809
This abridged edition of Vance Packard's 1959 The Status Seekers presents a picture of American society in the late 1950s that allows students to develop a more accurate and complex understanding of an often-caricatured era. Daniel Horowitz's introduction provides historical context, an assssment of the book's impact, and a discussion of its critical reception.
Author : Vance Oakley Packard
Publisher :
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 37,81 MB
Release : 1966
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Author : Vance Packard
Publisher : Ig Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,67 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780978843106
A discussion of how modern advertising attempts to control our thoughts and desires in order to make us buy the products it produces. Exploring the use of consumer motivational research and other psychological techniques, including subliminal tactics, this book shows how advertisers secretly manipulate mass desire for consumer goods and products. In addition, Packard also discusses advertising in politics, predicting the way image and personality rapidly came to overshadow real issues in the televised age.
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Page : 339 pages
File Size : 49,37 MB
Release : 1962
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Author : Alice E. Marwick
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 35,73 MB
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0300176724
Presents an analysis of social media, discussing how a technology which was once heralded as democratic, has evolved into one which promotes elitism and inequality and provides companies with the means of invading privacy in search of profits.
Author : David Brooks
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 26,22 MB
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1416561730
In his bestselling work of “comic sociology,” David Brooks coins a new word, Bobo, to describe today’s upper class—those who have wed the bourgeois world of capitalist enterprise to the hippie values of the bohemian counterculture. Their hybrid lifestyle is the atmosphere we breathe, and in this witty and serious look at the cultural consequences of the information age, Brooks has defined a new generation. Do you believe that spending $15,000 on a media center is vulgar, but that spending $15,000 on a slate shower stall is a sign that you are at one with the Zenlike rhythms of nature? Do you work for one of those visionary software companies where people come to work wearing hiking boots and glacier glasses, as if a wall of ice were about to come sliding through the parking lot? If so, you might be a Bobo.