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B1-B2 Unit Three Lesson 3A Recreation In this lesson you are going to talk about, and investigate, the leisure activities people in your class enjoy. You’ll work on these areas of language; Overview This classic two-volume work, first published in 1871, was highly influential in the establishment of cultural evolution as the basis for anthropologic studies. Author Edward B. Tylor is widely regarded as the founder of anthropology as a scientific discipline. Volume 1 focuses on social evolution, language, and myth. This classic two-volume work, first published in 1871, was highly influential in the establishment of cultural evolution as the basis for anthropologic studies. Author Edward B. Tylor is widely regarded as the founder of anthropology as a scientific discipline. Volume 1 focuses on social evolution, language, and myth. In his scathing The Theory of the Leisure Class, Thorstein Veblen produced a landmark study of affluent American society that exposes, with brilliant ruthlessness, the habits of production and waste that link invidious business tactics and barbaric social behavior. Veblen\'s analysis of the evolutionary process sees greed as the overriding motive in the modern economy, and with an impartial gaze he examines the human cost paid when social institutions exploit the consumption of unessential goods for the sake of personal profit. Fashion, beauty, animals, sports, the home, the clergy, scholars—all are assessed for their true usefulness and found wanting. Indeed, Veblen\'s critique covers all aspects of modern life from dress, class, the position of women, home decoration, industry, business, and sport, to religion, scholarship, and education. The targets of Veblen\'s coruscating satire are as evident today as they were a century ago, and his book still has the power to shock and enlighten. Martha Banta\'s introduction illuminates Veblen\'s uncompromising arguments as it highlights the literary force of Veblen\'s writing and its influence on later American writers such as Edith Wharton, Henry James, Dos Passos, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. She also sheds light on his critique of the plight of women and his evolutionary arguments as they relate to modern society. Almost a century after its original publication, Thorstein Veblen\'s work is as fresh and relevant as ever. Veblen\'s The Theory of the Leisure Class is in the tradition of Adam Smith\'s The Wealth of Nations and Thomas Hobbes\'s Leviathan, yet it provides a surprisingly contemporary look at American economics and society. Establishing such terms as conspicuous consumption and pecuniary emulation, Veblen\'s most famous work has become an archetype not only of economic theory, but of historical and sociological thought as well. As sociologist Alan Wolfe writes in his Introduction, Veblen skillfully . . . wrote a book that will be read so long as the rich are different from the rest of us which, if the future is anything like the past, they always will be. In this concise text, the distinguished American philosopher John Dewey compiled excerpts from the massive Progress and Poverty to provide those unfamiliar with Henry George\'s work with the essence of the author\'s thinking on economics. In his Foreword, Dewey noted, It would require less than the fingers of the two hands to enumerate those who from Plato down rank with [George]. No man, no graduate of a higher educational institution, has a right to regard himself as an educated man in social thought unless he has some first-hand acquaintance with the theoretical contribution of this great American thinker. Fifteen brief chapters feature passages from George\'s highly influential book and examine why poverty persists throughout periods of economic and technological progress as well as the basis for economic cycles of boom and bust. Almost a century after its original publication, Thorstein Veblen\'s work is as fresh and relevant as ever. Veblen\'s The Theory of the Leisure Class is in the tradition of Adam Smith\'s The Wealth of Nations and Thomas Hobbes\'s Leviathan, yet it provides a surprisingly contemporary look at American economics and society. Establishing such terms as conspicuous consumption and pecuniary emulation, Veblen\'s most famous work has become an archetype not only of economic theory, but of historical and sociological thought as well. As sociologist Alan Wolfe writes in his Introduction, Veblen skillfully . . . wrote a book that will be read so long as the rich are different from the rest of us which, if the future is anything like the past, they always will be. In this concise text, the distinguished American philosopher John Dewey compiled excerpts from the massive Progress and Poverty to provide those unfamiliar with Henry George\'s work with the essence of the author\'s thinking on economics. In his Foreword, Dewey noted, It would require less than the fingers of the two hands to enumerate those who from Plato down rank with [George]. No man, no graduate of a higher educational institution, has a right to regard himself as an educated man in social thought unless he has some first-hand acquaintance with the theoretical contribution of this great American thinker. Fifteen brief chapters feature passages from George\'s highly influential book and examine why poverty persists throughout periods of economic and technological progress as well as the basis for economic cycles of boom and bust.