Keeping up with the Joneses
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| - | "'''Keeping up with the Joneses'''" is an [[idiom]] in many parts of the [[English language|English]]-speaking world referring to the comparison to one's neighbor as a benchmark for [[social class|social caste]] or the accumulation of material goods. To fail to "keep up with the Joneses" is perceived as demonstrating socio-economic or [[cultural inferiority]]. | + | "'''Keeping up with the Joneses'''" is an [[idiom]] in many parts of the [[English language|English]]-speaking world referring to the comparison to one's neighbor as a benchmark for [[social class|social caste]] or the accumulation of material goods. To fail to "keep up with the Joneses" is perceived as demonstrating socio-economic or cultural inferiority. |
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"Keeping up with the Joneses" is an idiom in many parts of the English-speaking world referring to the comparison to one's neighbor as a benchmark for social caste or the accumulation of material goods. To fail to "keep up with the Joneses" is perceived as demonstrating socio-economic or cultural inferiority.
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See also
- Affluenza
- Anthropological theories of value
- Anti-consumerism
- Consumerism
- Conspicuous consumption
- Bandwagon effect
- Economic inequality
- Economic mobility
- Envy
- Herd behavior
- Network effect
- Model minority
- Over-consumption
- Peer pressure
- Post-materialism
- Relative deprivation
- Sheeple
- Simple living
- Socioeconomic status
- Status Anxiety
- Symbolic capital
- The Joneses
- The Theory of the Leisure Class
- Thorstein Veblen
- Transformative asset
- Veblen good
- Westernization
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