介于流行写作和严肃理论之间(更偏向前者)。她的论点是炫耀性消费的大众化以及随之带来的AC的兴起,佐以全球化和收入分配不公,论证里到底这是关于大众还是精英的理论一直游移不定。一会说「This new, dominant cultural elite can be called, quite simply, the aspirational class.」,一会又讲到这些只是「the democratization of conspicuous consumption has provided many more material goods to the middle class, but this change is to their detriment.」理论读的不行,故事说得一般般。07-14
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