Conspicuous consumption
- In what ways do Americans and especially African Americans practice conspicuous consumption?
- How much, if at all, do you think the amount and forms of conspicuous consumption vary by gender? By race-ethnicity? By class? By region? By age?
- What are some of the ways that you engage in acts of conspicuous consumption, and what are some of the social factors that encourage you to do so?
- Who or what profits by your acts of conspicuous consumption, and how?