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Record W4252321444 · doi:10.1057/9780230244863_2

Conspicuous Consumption

2009· book-chapter· en· W4252321444 on OpenAlexaff
Robert A. Stebbins

Bibliographic record

VenuePalgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · 2009
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicSharing Economy and Platforms
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Calgary
Fundersnot available
KeywordsVeblen goodConspicuous consumptionConsumption (sociology)Luxury goodsNeoclassical economicsPurchasingPerspective (graphical)SociologyGoods and servicesEconomicsAestheticsCommerceAdvertisingArtBusinessEconomyInstitutional economicsOperations managementVisual arts

Abstract

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This chapter explores the ideas of Thorstein Veblen, Marcel Mauss, and others as originally written and then applies these ideas to consumer life in the 21st century. Various principles of the serious leisure perspective are used to link conspicuous consumption in free time. Conspicuous consumption elevates significantly the importance for the consumer of the commercial side of this person’s leisure. Purchasing expensive, dazzling goods and services earns the buyer a cachet in the eyes of the other people in that person’s circle. As Veblen (1899, p. 64) put it in his day: ‘conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.’

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.971
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.007

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.031
GPT teacher head0.217
Teacher spread0.186 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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