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A Matter of Taste
How Names, Fashions, and Culture Change
A Matter of Taste examines how and why fashions and tastes in things like baby names change over time.
- Anyone interested in how fashions develop
- Anyone who wants to know why we pick the baby names we do
- Anyone looking for inspiration in choosing a child’s name
Stanley Lieberson is a Canadian sociologist and research professor at Harvard University. Besides first names and fashions, he has studied language conflicts, race and ethnic relations.
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