The socialist tradition was long associated with materialism, a view that has come under fire in recent decades. But ...

The Met Gala’s Black dandyism theme obscured important discussions about power and classism by placing wealthy Black celebrities in focus.

Jason Carroll, BYU professor of marriage and family studies, and two graduate students, Ashley LeBaron and Heather Kelly, have provided more insight into what may be one of the roots of the ...

In her recent paper “Growing up in a Material World: Age Differences in Materialism in Children and Adolescents,” in the December 2007 issue of the Journal of Consumer Research, John and co ...

In January 1848, James Marshall was building a sawmill by a river near present day Sacramento when he found a piece of glowing metal on the floor, which turned out to be gold. Once rumours of the ...

He lost his re-election bid in a landslide to Ronald Reagan 16 months later, at the dawn of a decade that glamorized materialism like few if any that had come before it. The decades that followed ...