Decoding the fashion industry offers insightful cultural perspectives, making it an intriguing study not just for fashion enthusiasts, but for sociocultural observers as well.
But that’s okay, because the sociocultural changes that Lenski talks about can also be understood using the work of some old friends: Marx, Weber, and Durkheim.
Lenski focused on technology as the main source of societal change, through a process he called sociocultural evolution: the changes that occur as a society gains new technology.