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Title

  • Main Title An Institutional Approach to Economic and Social Patterns of Emulation in Colombia, South America

Creator

  • Author: Fernandez, Mauricio, 1955-
    Creator Type: Personal

Contributor

  • Chair: Dugger, William M.
    Contributor Type: Personal
    Contributor Info: Major Professor
  • Committee Member: Gorman, Stephen M.
    Contributor Type: Personal
    Contributor Info: Minor Professor

Publisher

  • Name: North Texas State University
    Place of Publication: Denton, Texas
    Additional Info: www.unt.edu

Date

  • Creation: 1980-05

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: This study is concerned with the historical development and perpetuation of the leisure class in the Colombian society. The study is based on Thorstein Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class. The main purpose of this study is to analyze in terms of the evolution of social institutions the problems that the Colombian society faces today. Spanish values and traditions are analyzed, as well as more recent values and modes of behavior adopted by the leisure class. Institutions such as the church, the educational, employment and political apparatus are analyzed in terms of how they contribute to the perpetuation of elites. This study concludes that as long as there is economic surplus in society, a leisure class will exist. The elites forming the leisure class may be displaced by counter-elites, which in turn will conform a new leisure class.
  • Physical Description: iii, 87 leaves

Subject

  • Keyword: Colombian economy
  • Keyword: Colombian society
  • Keyword: Theory of the Leisure Class
  • Keyword: Thorstein Veblen
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Leisure class.
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Social institutions -- Colombia.
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Colombia -- Social conditions.
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Colombia -- Economic conditions.

Coverage

  • Place Name: Colombia

Collection

  • Name: UNT Theses and Dissertations
    Code: UNTETD

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries
    Code: UNT

Rights

  • Rights Access: public
  • Rights Holder: Fernandez, Mauricio, 1955-
  • Rights License: copyright
  • Rights Statement: Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Resource Type

  • Thesis or Dissertation

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • Accession or Local Control No: 1002776125-Fernandez
  • Call Number: 379 N81 no. 5677
  • UNT Catalog No.: b1203561
  • OCLC: 7073432
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc504494

Degree

  • Academic Department: Department of Economics
  • Degree Discipline: Economics
  • Degree Level: Master's
  • Degree Name: Master of Arts
  • Degree Publication Type: thesi
  • Degree Grantor: North Texas State University
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