Getting Dressed

Conformity and Imitation in Clothing and Everyday Life
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-138-29174-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 136 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 212 g

Getting Dressed teaches sociology through the everyday decision of what to wear. It is about the rules that shape how we dress and how and why we conform. It is about how and why we imitate others. We may think about clothing as our personal style and identity. But our personal style is not so personal; it is social, shaped and limited by countless social influences. We use clothes to rank and treat each other as better and worse. Yet we need each other to become who we are when getting dressed. This book is about what we wear, why we wear it, and why it matters.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yodanis, Carrie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- The public nature of personal style

Dressing by the rules

- The written dress codes

- The unwritten dress codes

- How much to cover?

- Who covers what when?

- How much to care?

- When to challenge the rules?

- How to show status?

- Inequality and shopping for clothes

Dressing like others do

- Following and fitting in

- The influencers

- In the industry

- Is individuality individual?

- Individuality in lifestyles?

- Mashup

Über Autor(innen)

Carrie Yodanis is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. She is also author of Getting Married: The Public Nature of Our Private Relationships.