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Excerpt: The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen.

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...s by Thorstein Veblen A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen is a publication of the... ...ein Veblen A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ...pper-class occupations may be roughly comprised under government, warfare, religious observances, and sports. At an earlier, but not the earliest, sta... ...ustrate these more primitive phases of the differentiation. Any one of the North Ameri- can hunting tribes may be taken as a convenient illustration. ... ...hand. Honorific epithets, in vogue among barbarian tribes as well as among peoples of a more advance culture, commonly bear the stamp of this unsophis... ...ife and in men’s habits of thought, accumulated property more and more re- places trophies of predatory exploit as the conventional ex- ponent of prep... ...h to a greater extent than the latter. So it comes, for instance, that the American farmer and his wife and daughters are notoriously less modish in t... ... for moving with ease over the firm and open country to which the horse is indigenous. It is 98 The Theory of the Leisure Class not only with respect...

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...Excerpt: Renewal of Life by Transmission. The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. A stone when struck resists. If its resistance is greater than the force of the blow...

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...Contents Chapter One: Education as a Necessity of Life .............................................................................. 5 Chapter Two: Education as a Social Function .............................................................................. 14 Chapter Th...

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...Series Publication Democracy and Education by John Dewey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ies Publication Democracy and Education by John Dewey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...ion we speak of the life of a savage tribe, of the Athenian people, of the American nation. “Life” covers customs, institutions, beliefs, victories an... ...y social institution, economic, domestic, 11 John Dewey political, legal, religious, is its effect in enlarging and improving experience; yet this ef... ...a fish because it is necessary to the fish’s activi- ties—to its life. The north pole is a significant element in the environment of an arctic explore... ...themselves on the surface of our ordinary experiences. In similar fashion, peoples still existing, but remote in space, Brit- ish, Germans, Italians, ... ...ology. We have already noted the defects of a psychology of learning which places the individual mind naked, as it were, in contact with physical obje... ...n that has nothing to do with the experi- enced facts of life, it is found indigenous in experience:— the factor by which past experiences are purifie...