A Matter of Taste - How Names, Fashions & Culture Change: How Names, Fashions, and Culture Change Condition:als nieuw and a visiting professor at

and a visiting professor at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro

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A Matter of Taste - How Names, Fashions & Culture Change: How Names, Fashions, and Culture Change Condition:als nieuw and a visiting professor atWhat accounts for our tastes? Why and how do they change over time? In this innovative book Stanley Lieberson analyzes children's first names to develop an original theory of fashion. Children's names provide an opportunity to view the pure mechanisms of fashion, unaffected by commercial interests that influence many fashions and tastes, says Lieberson. He disputes the commonly held notion that tastes in names (and other fashions) simply reflect