A middle class that copes by shopping secondhand

Tuesday, October 19, 2010 - 13:31 in Psychology & Sociology

Conventional wisdom holds that people try to mimic the behavior of the next social class above their own. Except when it comes to shopping at secondhand stores and yard sales, concludes a new study by sociology students and researchers.

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