Aestheticism and Social Structure: Style and Social Network in the Dandy Life

Smith, Thomas S.

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“…In addition some empirical work supports this approach. Smith (1974) related style to the wider social structure through the concept of decrystallization or the breakdown of established cultural patterns, using a case study approach to Beau Brummel, the preeminent model of the dandy of the 19th century. Smith (1974) related style to the wider social structure through the concept of decrystallization or the breakdown of established cultural patterns, using a case study approach to Beau Brummel, the preeminent model of the dandy of the 19th century.…”

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Velocity of the Fashion Process in Women's Formal Evening Dress, 1789-1980

Lowe

1990

Clothing and Textiles Research Journal

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This study tests the proposition that the fashion process is accelerating by utilizing quantitative data and time series analysis. Metrical measurements of persistent features of women's formal evening dress (skirt length, skirt width, waist length, waist width, decolletage length, decolletage width) are taken from high fashion magazines and averaged to create yearly means, thereby creating a time series of 192 years. A methodology is described which deals with the magnitude of change from one year to the next in the means of each of the dress features. The velocity of the fashion process is found to be not accelerating in women's formal evening dress but rather is highly variable and episodic. What does exhibit a significant increase through time is the within-year variance of the variables.

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Velocity of the Fashion Process in Women's Formal Evening Dress, 1789-1980

Lowe

1990

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“…The audience, which may be composed of ideal-typical consumers (cf. White 1981), by acknowledging the actors who take part and what they do, endows the actors, or indirectly endows their deeds, with status (Smith Spence 1974). In this way, a rank order of actors making up the social structure emerges.…”

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Forms of uncertainty reduction: decision, valuation, and contest

Aspers

2018

Theor Soc

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Uncertainty is an intriguing aspect of social life. Uncertainty is epistemic, future-oriented, and implies that we can neither predict nor foresee what will happen when acting. In cases in which no institutionalized certainty about future states exists, or can be generated, judgment is needed. This article presents the forms by which uncertainty is reduced as a result of judgments made about different alternatives in a process involving several actors. This type of uncertainty may exist, for example, about which artist is the best, which offer in the market is more valuable, which football team is better than all the rest, or which research proposal will get a grant. The result of different forms of uncertainty reduction is increased certainty concerning alternatives in relation to one another, such as good and bad, rank lists, scores, quality assessment, and Bwinner and losers.^Based on the result, uncertainty is reduced and action is facilitated. The forms are structural and comprise roles; may be legitimate in a smaller or larger domain; and may exist in all spheres of life, as exemplified in sports competitions, in labor markets, and in the ranking of universities. Three forms of uncertainty reduction based on judgment are identified in this article: (1) decision, made by an authority; (2) valuation, by means of which order arises as a result of actors ascribing values; and (3) contest, by which an order is the result of direct struggle.Keywords Competition . Game . Market . Ranking . Status . ValueUncertainty is an intriguing but essential aspect of social life. Although total certainty would probably be unbearable, we are often plagued by uncertainty. Uncertainty is epistemic, future-oriented, and refers to a lack of knowledge concerning how to act with predictable outcomes. Uncertainty means that we cannot predict or foresee what will happen when acting or not acting

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“…Sosyal tipler, toplum tarafından üretilmelerinden dolayı aynı zamanda sosyal değişim analizinin bir aracı olarak da işe yarayabilirler. The dandy vakası, sosyal tipin kültürel değişim sinyali olduğuna güzel bir örnektir çünkü dandy'ler, aslında, sosyal elitin en yüksek kademelerine girmeye hak kazanan sosyal tırmanıcılardı (Smith 1974). Onların hikâyesi, Avrupa aristokrasisindeki bir uyanışın ve yeni bir kapitalist dünyanın ortaya çıkışını yansıtır.…”

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“Sosyal Tip Problemi: Bir Gözden Geçirme”

Günaydin¹

2018

Dil Ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları/Journal of Language and Literature Studies

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Öz Yazar, bireyin toplumla ilişkisinin görünen kısmı olarak tanımladığı sosyal tip konseptinin sosyoloji tarihindeki serüvenini, antropoloji ve psikoloji ile karşılaştırmalı olarak ele almakta, sosyal tipin nasıl şekillendiğini ve rol oyuncusundan nasıl ve hangi noktalarda ayrıldığını ortaya koymakta, sosyal tipin nasıl ve hangi kaynaklardan ortaya çıktığını tartışmakta, sosyal tip kavramı için tam bir tanım teklifi yapmakta, sosyal tipin sosyoloji araştırmalarında çok daha ehemmiyetli bir yer edineceğini ümit ederek ve öngörerek çalışmasını bitirmektedir. Yazara göre sosyal tipi şekillendiren bazı faktörler vardır, bilhassa modern toplumlarda çok ani sosyal tip oluşumları ve değişimleri yaşanmaktadır. Yine yazara göre sosyal tip kavramı, modern manada antropolog, psikolog ve sosyologlarca ele alınmadan çok daha önce edebiyatçılar tarafından içgüdüsel olarak edebi metinler içerisinde kendine yer bulmaktaydı. Bugün de bilhassa sinemanın etkisi ile pek çok sosyal tip; senarist, yapımcı ve yönetmenlerce tespit edilerek insanlık belleğinin arşivlerine kazandırılmaktadır. Biz, bu çalışmamızda, 1998 yılında Electronic Journal of Sociology dergisinde "The Problem of Social Type: A Review" başlığı ile İngilizce olarak yayınlanmış bu makaleyi Türkçeye tercüme ettik. Çeviri sırasında, bazı sosyal tip adlarını aynen (hobo, dandy, yuppie vb.) bazılarını Türkçeye aktararak (cimri, aptal, metropollü) bazılarını da Türkçe çevirisi ile birlikte orijinal adını da muhafaza ederek (mürtet/the convert, bitirim/hustler) kullandık. Cümle kuruluşlarında ve paragraflarda büyük oranda yazarın üslubuna sadık kaldık. Yalnızca, orijinal yayında sonnot olarak eklenen açıklamaları dipnotlar olarak verdik.

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Aestheticism and Social Structure: Style and Social Network in the Dandy Life

Cited by 28 publications

References 10 publications

Velocity of the Fashion Process in Women's Formal Evening Dress, 1789-1980

Velocity of the Fashion Process in Women's Formal Evening Dress, 1789-1980

Forms of uncertainty reduction: decision, valuation, and contest

“Sosyal Tip Problemi: Bir Gözden Geçirme”

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