Specific term required. Joffre Dumazedier (“ZHOFF-ree doo-mah-zed-YAY”) created sociology’s standard definition of this concept, whose “mass organization” by fascist Italy is described in Victoria de Grazia’s The Culture of Consent. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this concept whose classical ideal was ended by “the tyranny of the clock,” per Sebastian de Grazia. This concept titles a book claiming that survivals of “barbarian prowess” are expressed by “force and fraud.”
ANSWER: leisure [or loisir (“lwah-ZEER”); accept The Theory of the Leisure Class; prompt on class by asking “what other concept characterizes the class in that work’s title?”] (Victoria is Sebastian’s niece.)
[10m] This book controversially argues that Neolithic hunter-gatherers had the most leisure time in history. This book contains the chapter “The Original Affluent Society.”
ANSWER: Stone Age Economics (by Marshall Sahlins)
[10e] “Vicarious leisure” flaunts “abstention from productive work” in this thinker’s book The Theory of the Leisure Class, which coined the term “conspicuous consumption.”
ANSWER: Thorstein Veblen [or Thorstein Bunde Veblen]
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