A Matter of Taste: How Names, Fashions, and Culture Change by Stanley Lieberson

A Matter of Taste: How Names, Fashions, and Culture Change

Stanley Lieberson

352 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction history sociology challenging informative slow-paced
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What 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 mechan...

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