Author Question: Economist Thorstein Veblen used the term conspicuous consumption to describe A) Women's frivolous ... (Read 87 times)

kellyjaisingh · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

Economist Thorstein Veblen used the term conspicuous consumption to describe

A) Women's frivolous purchases at the new department stores
B) The excessive materialism of the wealthy and the widening gap between workers and the wealthy
C) The themes of some of the new popular literature
D) The rise of vaudeville and new forms of leisure
E) All of these choices

Question 2

Which of the following is not evidence that public education in the late-nineteenth-century United States had become entangled in ethnic and class differences?

A) The proliferation of private and parochial schools
B) The controversy over compulsory education
C) The debates over classroom decorum
D) The efforts to wrest control of schools from neighborhood leaders
E) New educational theories that stressed decentralized administration, repealed compulsory attendance, and de-emphasized white European conventions such as punctuality.