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We have come a long way since Veblen (1899) first described the conditions of leisure and provided a forward-looking analysis that would nevertheless lock the concept in relation to a whole series of other structural conditions now rendered more fluid. Despite these inevitable penalties of historicism Veblen achieved far more than the election of ideas, still current, such as ‘conspicuous consumption’. In analytic terms his lasting insight was the detailed revelation of the ideology of those with power in society. At a different level he demonstrated that this ruling ideology, through imitation, envy and sad comparison became the ideology of a particular historical period.
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Jenks, C. (2006). Leisure and Subculture. In: Rojek, C., Shaw, S.M., Veal, A.J. (eds) A Handbook of Leisure Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230625181_17
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