leisure - 2024 ACF Nationals

Question

Specific term required. Joffre Dumazedier (“ZHOFF-ree doo-mah-zed-YAY”) created sociology’s standard definition of this concept, whose “mass organization” by fascist Italy is described in Victoria de Grazia’s The Culture of Consent. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this concept whose classical ideal was ended by “the tyranny of the clock,” per Sebastian de Grazia. This concept titles a book claiming that survivals of “barbarian prowess” are expressed by “force and fraud.”

ANSWER: leisure [or loisir (“lwah-ZEER”); accept The Theory of the Leisure Class; prompt on class by asking “what other concept characterizes the class in that work’s title?”] (Victoria is Sebastian’s niece.)

[10m] This book controversially argues that Neolithic hunter-gatherers had the most leisure time in history. This book contains the chapter “The Original Affluent Society.”

ANSWER: Stone Age Economics (by Marshall Sahlins)

[10e] “Vicarious leisure” flaunts “abstention from productive work” in this thinker’s book The Theory of the Leisure Class, which coined the term “conspicuous consumption.”

ANSWER: Thorstein Veblen [or Thorstein Bunde Veblen]

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Data

Team	Opponent	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Total
Chicago A	Arizona State	0	10	10	20
Chicago B	Harvard	0	0	10	10
Columbia B	Chicago D	0	0	10	10
Florida	North Carolina A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech	Cornell B	0	0	10	10
Illinois	Chicago C	0	10	10	20
Indiana	Iowa State	0	10	10	20
Johns Hopkins	Duke	0	0	10	10
Kentucky	Berkeley B	0	0	10	10
Maryland	Truman State	0	10	10	20
Minnesota A	McGill	0	0	10	10
Minnesota B	WUSTL A	0	0	10	10
NYU	Rutgers	0	0	10	10
Ottawa	Brown	10	0	10	20
Penn	Vanderbilt	0	0	10	10
Stanford	Purdue	0	10	10	20
Texas	WUSTL B	10	0	10	20
Toronto A	Virginia	0	0	10	10
Toronto B	North Carolina B	0	0	0	0
Waterloo	Berkeley A	0	0	10	10
Yale A	South Carolina	0	0	10	10
Yale B	Northwestern	0	10	0	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Exact Match?	Heard	PPB	Easy %	Medium %	Hard %
2024 ACF Nationals	04/21/2024	Y	22	12.73	91%	27%	9%