[Air-l] technology as social status symbols

[David Palfreyman]

For research re mobile phones, try
Lycett & Dunbar (2000). Mobile phones as lekking devices among human males. Human Nature, 11(1): 93-104.


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>>> myildiz at indiana.edu 04-Apr-02 11:19:58 PM >>>
Regarding:
>    2. Technology as social status symbols (Patrick B. O'Sullivan)

Hi,

In my home country Turkey, I remember reading a couple of news stories
about cutting edge cell phones being status symbols, but I have not
seen any scholarly work on it. 

Mete



Mete Yildiz
School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Bloomington, IN