The Theory of the Leisure Class Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

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The Theory of the Leisure Class Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 120 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the standards of consumption determined by?

2. Who engages in vicarious consumption?

3. What does Veblen say emulation leads to?

4. How do standards of consumption change?

5. What happens when people attain a certain level of consumption?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kinds of feats replace productivity for the leisure class?

2. How has the leisure class evolved from the times of hunting cultures?

3. What was the earliest form of ownership?

4. How did primitive societies divide the labor?

5. What are the two conditions necessary for the development of the leisure class?

6. How does wealth stratify society?

7. How have women's clothes demonstrated that the woman does not engage in productive employment?

8. How does the leisure of the leisure class affect the servants?

9. How does the labor class view its work?

10. How does Veblen describe the differences between the sexes and the effect of those differences on economic life of a society?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe how "The Theory of the Leisure Class" applies to two professions: one where the profession fits Veblen's language very well, and another where Veblen's language does not apply as neatly.

Essay Topic 2

The master-slave dialectic posits that the masters need the slaves and that the slaves cannot function in an organized way without the masters. But Veblen's theories of vicarious leisure and vicarious consumption describe the servant class as mere evidence of the wealth of the master class. What economic agency does Veblen attribute to the servant class? Does the servant class make itself necessary to the leisure class?

Essay Topic 3

Are status symbols necessary? If social status is a fact of life for middle-class (leisure-class) people in industrial society, are status symbols necessities, or are they luxuries? Is Veblen being puritanical to see them as luxuries when pragmatically they are requirements for participation in culture?

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