SOCI 1 Chapter Notes - Chapter Article Notes: White Coat, Denotation, Positive Force
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Soci 1 article notes sociology of fashion: order and change. Introduction: fashion in sociology in collective and personal identity dynamics, production and consumption patterns, social distinction and imitation mechanisms, fashion as change, fashion as dress. The origins and evolution of fashion: etymology and relationship with selected. Where does fashion come from: as old as dress itself and likely appeared in different civilizations at the same time. In older times, fashionable clothes could only be afforded by the rich: better production increased the ability of the classes to acquire fashionable clothing, relevance of fashion increased with modernization. The domain of fashion: popularization of children"s first names a fashion, fashion can be expanded to almost any form of human activity, central social phenomenon. Fashion in economics: fashion the opposite of rationality, veblen: fashion is an expression of wealth. Fashion in geography: producers of clothing only get a fraction of the profit.
