The Theory of the Leisure Class Quiz

Thorstein Veblen

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

According to Veblen, what effect does education have on the leisure class? (from The Higher Learning as an Expression of the Pecuniary Culture)

It teaches the values of the leisure class and hands them down.

It preserves the values of the leisure class from the its own apostasy.

It teaches the leisure class the middle class values it will need to survive.

It opens the leisure class to the new rich in each generation.

2.

Who performs the most vicarious consumption, according to Veblen? (from Dress as an Expression of the Pecuniary Culture)

The wage earner.

Servants.

Children.

The women of the household.

3.

According to Veblen, how do men's attitudes change as they acquire more and more pecuniary interest in their work? (from Survivals of the Non-Invidious Interest)

They begin to spend more time with their families.

They become more ashamed of it.

They take more pride in it.

They begin to give more to charity.

4.

Who decides what level of consumption is honorable? (from The Pecuniary Standard of Living)

The aristocrats.

The workers.

The merchants.

The community itself.

5.

Selective adaptation governs what? (from Industrial Exemption and Conservatism)

The display of wealth.

The fashion from year to year.

Who survives socially.

Who works for whom.

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