本書作者為一名紐約大學社會學博士，過去曾經是一名時裝模特兒，為了研究性別、種族、階級問題而讓自己化身為「女孩」，在長達18個月的近身田野調查而得以寫出這本由富豪、公關、女孩合演的豪奢大劇。




健康與情感

閱讀書評

文化生活

誇富宴（potlatch）

關於很酷的那些人

互利互惠的金錢遊戲

享樂又蔑視的矛盾

派對從未停歇

射手媽咪婷婷的沙龍

Ashley Mears works primarily at the intersections of economic, gender, and cultural sociology. She studies how societies value people and things. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation, and featured in outlets like the New York Times, The BBC, The Economist, NPR, and Chinese Cosmo.

In this conversation we discuss her newest book, Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit and the implications of it for our everyday interactions relating to Gender relations, the foundations of relationships, the meaning of status in a Capitalist society, and the depth within the club life of the elite and how does this extrapolate to all human interactions.

I really enjoyed reading Very Important People, and having the opportunity to talk with Ashley about it has been a very unique experience. I encourage you to read Very Important People as Ashley provides an inside look into a world that is oftentimes not studied yet has immense implications in our reality, such as nightclubs.

Enjoy! 
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Website: https://www.ashleymears.com
Book: Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit

--- Highlights —
1:00 Why study clubs?
5:02 Why do we party?
10:00 How does the club life extrapolate to other parts of our daily interactions?
16:40 What is Status? How does it emerge and why does it have such a gravitational pull for us?
23:35 Potlatches and modern society.
26:47 Gayle Rubin's work on Feminist Theory and its implications for today's gender relations.
31:05 The future of Gender relations.
37:40 The Gender Of Capital: How Families Perpetuate Wealth Inequality
39:20 Are all relationships transactional?
44:20 Is love a social construct?
46:40 The emergence of Aspirational Dating websites.
50:30 Sugar Daddy's, Mommy's, and Baby's.
1:01:05 The resurgence of clubs after the pandemic.
1:05:30 Ashley's biggest insights while writing her book, Very Important People

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Ashley Mears: Very Important People, Aspirational Dating, and Potlatches.

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