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Keeping up with the Joneses

Index Keeping up with the Joneses

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 class or the accumulation of material goods. [1]

52 relations: Affluenza, Anthropological theories of value, Astor family, Biograph girl, Caroline Schermerhorn Astor, Chemical Bank, Clifford C. Furnas, Comic strip, Conspicuous consumption, Consumerism, Diderot effect, Dominic West, Economic materialism, Edith Wharton, English language, Fifth Avenue, Florence Lawrence, Gothic architecture, Henry Winthrop Sargent, Herd behavior, Hudson Valley, Idiom, John Mason (businessman), Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Keeping Up with the Joneses (comics), Keeping Up with the Joneses (film), Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Livingston family, Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love), Mark Twain, Mona Lisa Smile, New York World, Parvenu, Relative deprivation, Rhinebeck (village), New York, Rhinecliff, New York, Social class, Social mobility, Social status, Social stratification, Society, Status Anxiety, Symbolic capital, The Age of Innocence, The Joneses, The New York Times, The Spirit Level (book), Thomas Shapiro, Unseen character, Vanderbilt family, ..., Veblen good, Wyndcliffe. Expand index (2 more) »

Affluenza

Affluenza, a portmanteau of affluence and influenza, is a term used by critics of consumerism.

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Anthropological theories of value

Anthropological theories of value attempt to expand on the traditional theories of value used by economists or ethicists.

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Astor family

The Astor family achieved prominence in business, society, and politics in the United States and the United Kingdom during the 19th and 20th centuries.

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Biograph girl

Biograph Girl was a phrase associated with two early-20th-century actresses, Florence Lawrence and Mary Pickford, who made black-and-white silent films with the Biograph Company.

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Caroline Schermerhorn Astor

Caroline Webster "Lina" Schermerhorn (September 21, 1830 – October 30, 1908) was a prominent American socialite of the last quarter of the 19th century.

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Chemical Bank

Chemical Bank was a bank with headquarters in New York City from 1824 until 1996.

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Clifford C. Furnas

Clifford Cook Furnas (October 24, 1900 – April 27, 1969) was an American author, Olympic athlete, scientist, expert on guided missiles, university president, and public servant.

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Comic strip

A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions.

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Conspicuous consumption

Conspicuous consumption is the spending of money on and the acquiring of luxury goods and services to publicly display economic power—of the income or of the accumulated wealth of the buyer.

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Consumerism

Consumerism is a social and economic order and ideology that encourages the acquisition of goods and services in ever-increasing amounts.

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Diderot effect

The Diderot effect is a social phenomenon related to consumer goods that comprises two ideas.

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Dominic West

Dominic Gerard Francis Eagleton West (born 15 October 1969) is an English actor, director and musician.

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Economic materialism

Materialism is a personal attitude which attaches importance to acquiring and consuming material goods.

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Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton (born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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Fifth Avenue

Fifth Avenue is a major thoroughfare in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, United States.

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Florence Lawrence

Florence Lawrence (January 2, 1886 – December 28, 1938) was a Canadian-American stage performer and film actress.

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Gothic architecture

Gothic architecture is an architectural style that flourished in Europe during the High and Late Middle Ages.

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Henry Winthrop Sargent

Henry Winthrop Sargent (November 26, 1810 – November 11, 1882), American horticulturist and landscape gardener.

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Herd behavior

Herd behavior describes how individuals in a group can act collectively without centralized direction.

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Hudson Valley

The Hudson Valley comprises the valley of the Hudson River and its adjacent communities in the U.S. state of New York, from the cities of Albany and Troy southward to Yonkers in Westchester County.

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Idiom

An idiom (idiom, "special property", from translite, "special feature, special phrasing, a peculiarity", f. translit, "one's own") is a phrase or an expression that has a figurative, or sometimes literal, meaning.

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John Mason (businessman)

John Mason (c. 1773 – September 26, 1839) was an early American businessperson, merchant and banker.

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Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

The Journal of Money, Credit and Banking is a peer-reviewed economics journal covering monetary and financial issues in macroeconomics.

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Keeping Up with the Joneses (comics)

Keeping Up with the Joneses was an American gag-a-day comic strip by Arthur R. "Pop" Momand that ran from 1913 to 1938.

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Keeping Up with the Joneses (film)

Keeping Up with the Joneses is a 2016 American action comedy film directed by Greg Mottola and written by Michael LeSieur.

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Keeping Up with the Kardashians

Keeping Up with the Kardashians (often abbreviated KUWTK) is an American reality television series that airs on the E! cable network.

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Livingston family

The Livingston family of New York is a prominent family that migrated from Scotland to the Dutch Republic to the Province of New York in the 17th century.

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Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)

"Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)" is a song recorded by the American country music artist Waylon Jennings.

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Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer.

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Mona Lisa Smile

Mona Lisa Smile is a 2003 American drama film produced by Revolution Studios and Columbia Pictures in association with Red Om Films Productions, directed by Mike Newell, written by Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal, and starring Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles and Maggie Gyllenhaal.

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New York World

The New York World was a newspaper published in New York City from 1860 until 1931.

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Parvenu

A parvenu is a person who is a relative newcomer to a socioeconomic class.

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Relative deprivation

Relative deprivation is the lack of resources to sustain the diet, lifestyle, activities and amenities that an individual or group are accustomed to or that are widely encouraged or approved in the society to which they belong.

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Rhinebeck (village), New York

Rhinebeck is a village in the town of Rhinebeck in Dutchess County, New York, United States.

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Rhinecliff, New York

Rhinecliff is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) located along the Hudson River in the town of Rhinebeck in northern Dutchess County, New York, United States.

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Social class

A social class is a set of subjectively defined concepts in the social sciences and political theory centered on models of social stratification in which people are grouped into a set of hierarchical social categories, the most common being the upper, middle and lower classes.

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Social mobility

Social mobility is the movement of individuals, families, households, or other categories of people within or between social strata in a society.

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Social status

Social status is the relative respect, competence, and deference accorded to people, groups, and organizations in a society.

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Social stratification

Social stratification is a kind of social differentiation whereby a society groups people into socioeconomic strata, based upon their occupation and income, wealth and social status, or derived power (social and political).

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Society

A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same geographical or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations.

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Status Anxiety

Status Anxiety is a nonfiction book by Alain de Botton.

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Symbolic capital

In sociology and anthropology, symbolic capital can be referred to as the resources available to an individual on the basis of honor, prestige or recognition, and serves as value that one holds within a culture.

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The Age of Innocence

The Age of Innocence is a 1920 novel by the American author Edith Wharton.

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The Joneses

The Joneses is a 2009 American film written and directed by Derrick Borte.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Spirit Level (book)

The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do BetterUK Hardback edition: The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better.

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Thomas Shapiro

Thomas M. Shapiro is a professor of Sociology and Public Policy at Brandeis University and is the author The Hidden Cost of Being African American and the co-author of Black Wealth/White Wealth.

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Unseen character

An unseen character or (in radio) silent character is a fictional character referred to but not directly observed by the audience, but who advances the action of the plot in a significant way, and whose absence enhances their effect on the plot.

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Vanderbilt family

The Vanderbilt family is an American family of Dutch origin who gained prominence during the Gilded Age.

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Veblen good

Veblen goods are types of luxury goods for which the quantity demanded increases as the price increases, an apparent contradiction of the law of demand.

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Wyndcliffe

Wyndcliffe is the ruin of a historic mansion near Rhinebeck in Dutchess County, New York.The records at the Library of Congress state that the brick mansion was originally named Rhinecliff and constructed in 1853 in the Norman style.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeping_up_with_the_Joneses

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