A Matter of Taste - How Names, Fashions & Culture Change: How Names, Fashions, and Culture Change Condition:als nieuw Plain-English analyses and explanations combine

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A Matter of Taste - How Names, Fashions & Culture Change: How Names, Fashions, and Culture Change Condition:als nieuw Plain-English analyses and explanations combineWhat accounts for our tastes? Why and how do they change over time? In this innovative book Stanley Lieberson analyzes children's first names to develop an original theory of fashion. Children's names provide an opportunity to view the pure mechanisms of fashion, unaffected by commercial interests that influence many fashions and tastes, says Lieberson. He disputes the commonly held notion that tastes in names (and other fashions) simply reflect