When was "Theory of the Leisure Class" published?
1899
1905
1919
1939
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Theory of the Leisure Class was published in 1899 by American sociologist Thorstein Veblen. The book is a critical examination of the social stratification of the upper class in the United States during the Gilded Age, and how the leisure class's consumption patterns were a result of their desire to demonstrate their social superiority.
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