A Matter of Taste: How Names, Fashions, and Culture Change
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What accounts for our tastes? Why and how do they change over time? In this innovative book Stanley Lieberson analyzes children's first names to develop an original theory of fashion. Children's names provide an opportunity to view the pure mechanisms of fashion, unaffected by commercial interests that influence many fashions and tastes, says Lieberson. He disputes the commonly held notion that tastes in names (and other fashions) simply reflect societal...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0300173873
ISBN13:9780300173871
Release Date:October 2010
Publisher:Yale University Press
Length:352 Pages
Weight:1.15 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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