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Paradoxes of Modernist Consumption - Reading Fashions

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Fashion is the quintessential post-modernist consumer practice, or so many hold. In this contribution, I argue that, on the contrary, fashion should be understood as a means of communicating one's commitment to modernist values. I introduce the framework of the Social Value Network, to relate such values to institutionalized consumption behavior, allowing one to signal to others. Modernist values are not homogenous, and are in important ways contradictory, giving rise to the dynamics of fashion that can be observed.

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  • Wilfred Dolfsma, 2004. "Paradoxes of Modernist Consumption - Reading Fashions," Review of Social Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 62(3), pages 351-364.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rsocec:v:62:y:2004:i:3:p:351-364
    DOI: 10.1080/0034676042000253954
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    1. Greg Hannsgen, 2007. "A Random Walk Down Maple Lane? A Critique of Neoclassical Consumption Theory with Reference to Housing Wealth," Review of Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 19(1), pages 1-20.

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    Keywords

    consumption; fashion; institutions; socio-cultural values;
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    JEL classification:

    • D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
    • L2 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior
    • M - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics
    • M10 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - General

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