Snobbery as a personality trait - the tendency to blindly imitate tastes and manners high society, to look for the slightest opportunity to get there, to neglect everything that goes beyond his rules, to consider oneself the bearer of the highest intellectuality, to lay claim to an exquisitely refined taste, to an exclusive range of occupations and interests.
A snob comes to the artist: - I, in fact, at the request of my wife. She would like to order a painting for the living room. She wants something religious, pious. - Please please. What plot? - I don't even know. Anything from the Bible. - Maybe from the Bible. What do you want? Last Judgment, the creation of the world, Adam and Eve ... - Here, let's Adam and Eve. - How do you portray them, before or after original sin? I don’t know about my wife, but I personally would like - during it
According to one version, the word "snob" comes from privileged English schools where the children of the rich studied with the children of aristocrats. At the foot of the bed of such a child hung a sign "s.nob" (from lat. sine nobilitate- ignoble origin). A popular version of the origin of this word is the slang term for students at Eton University in early XIX century, where "nobs" (students of noble birth, probably from the word English. noble- nobleman) were opposed to "snobs" (ignoble).
Time makes adjustments to the essence of this or that concept, without making an exception for the interpretation of the word "snobbery". In the psychological portrait of current snobbery, it should be highlighted in bold: wants to appear bigger than he really is. The principle of a reasonable progressive person “To be, not to seem”, is turned upside down by a snob, it is more important for him to “To seem, and not to be”, without having any reason for this. For a snob, it is more important to portray than to live and feel. In this context, snobbery is disgusting, because it presents people with an illusion and a mirage of reason, true significance and virtue. Snobbery minions only want to appear confident, successful, happy, decent, and reasonable. Unlike ambition, snobbery needs not admiration, but admiration for its originality, originality and exclusivity. But for this you need to have good reasons, for example, the corresponding character traits. But besides cheap show-offs and competition in steepness, they cannot offer anything. “I bought a cool car, which means everyone will understand how enterprising and smart I am, I don’t need to study anymore,” such thoughts rush through the snob’s head. To emphasize their importance, the snob often buys fake goods with a branded label. For example, he will buy a fake watch that looks like a Rolex for 150 rubles. In the very act of buying and the subsequent display of things with labels outward, snobbery is manifested.
Snobbery is mannered, ceremonious and arrogant. Demonstration of one's own importance and dignity is overgrown with a bunch of conventions. The range of snobbery is unusually wide - from shocking to extremely refined manners.
Second component psychological portrait snob - he belittles, devalues and openly despises certain people, at the same time, bowing to the layer to which he really does not belong . In other words, snobbery is a demonstrative or veiled awareness of one's own superiority over other people, and, as a result, a dismissive or contemptuous attitude towards them. A person - a narcissist is convinced that he is better than others, because he is either smarter, or more successful, or stronger than them. He is a patrician, and these swarming below are plebeians and rednecks.
Snobbery always has a group of people in reserve, whom it does not value. At their expense, he asserts himself, on them he trains in humor and wit. For them, the snob has a condescending, contemptuous expression on his face. When shyness meets snobbery, she feels her worthlessness and inferiority under a wave of contempt. Without the pleasure of contempt, snobbery cannot survive. In the toolkit of snobbery, the palm belongs to manipulation and peremptory judgments. The conversation is built according to his rules, so an inexperienced counterpart finds himself in an awkward, stupid position, attempts to get out of this awkward situation only aggravate the situation.
The favorite technique of snobbery in self-affirmation is ridicule. Funny is not dangerous. Therefore, the snob belittles those around him with ridicule. Snobbish laughter makes the high low, the valuable devalued, the holy vicious. He is always angry, aggressive and dismissive, aimed at showing the failure of the object of ridicule.
Snobbery manifests itself in various forms: intellectual snobbery, snobbery by origin, professional snobbery, snobbery as following the tastes of the masses, social, everyday snobbery, etc. The category of intellectual snobbery includes people for whom the advantage of a sign, signature, label over the essence of the thing itself is important, not aesthetic value is significant pictures, books or any other thing, but what is written on it. Form prevails over content. In other words, snobbery values objects outside world not for their qualities, but only because they are liked by the "bohemian society" in which he dreams of being involved.
The English writer Arthur Koestler writes: “The essence of snobbery lies in the fact that when evaluating a particular phenomenon, an involuntary substitution of values occurs - some kind of signature, expert opinion or stamp certifying the dating of a thing may turn out to be more important for us than its very beauty and inherent beauty. ". Koestler claims that a snob is able to hang a magnificent copy of a painting in the basement, and, having learned that it is an original, instantly hang it in the living room in the most prominent place ... A snob, if it is prestigious, will start reading Capital by K. Marx or Science of Logic » Hegel.
Snobbery - back side own inferiority, mediocrity and mediocrity. With the scientific air of a connoisseur, the snob is ready to judge the merits of works of art, although his knowledge is limited only to a hasty browsing of catalogs. Snobbery is deprived of its own true taste, and for this reason it is forced to adapt, that is, to accept, and then pass off as its own, the point of view of third-party authority. Borrowed taste and attracted opinions - a distinctive feature of snobbery. Like a weather vane, the snob keeps his nose to the wind, trying to adjust to the requests at the time current moment. Snobbery can be likened to Yulia, who spins and criticizes all the time; if you only allow yourself to have an opinion and belong to something, then the top will fall. Hence its association with hypocrisy and hypocrisy. Snobbery differs from hypocrisy, first of all, in that it does not fully realize that it is an imaginary seeming intellectual, connoisseur or professional in any sphere of life. His own manners and tastes convince him of the opposite opinion.
At the same time, from the desire to "seem" snobbery turns into a powerful patron of the arts. As Aldous Huxley observed: “Hypocrisy is a gift from God; if not for intellectual snobs and their money, art would starve to death along with its servants. So there is at least some benefit from snobbery.
“Dad, why is this blot on canvas worth $10 million?” “Son, an inkblot costs a couple of cents, the rest goes to the salaries of hordes of art historians and experts who will explain to us all what deep meaning, creative breakthrough and ingenious inspiration is in this inkblot and why it should cost so much.
Snobbery is always associated with a feeling of vulnerability of a person who is rejected or not accepted by the highest, in his opinion, society. She explains low self-esteem person. In general, snobbery is a consequence of self-doubt, extinguished by great ambition and vanity. Trying to level his inferiority complex, he tries to seem better than he really is. It would be great if he began to develop and improve himself. But, unfortunately, everything ends with a mirage and a seeming illusion. Snobbery is limited to the level of imitation. He will not lift a finger to assimilate the advanced views of his time, to expand his worldview. Superficial snobbery, following its principle of "To seem, not to be," is content with mere imitation. It is foolish to expect from an initially insecure person, spurred on by his own vanity, high morality and morality in actions. He aspires to some kind of alien society, often without reason. Snobbery compensates for its lack of involvement in the upper stratum of society with contempt for the unworthy group chosen by it.
In conclusion, a joke about snobs: One snob to a friend: “I just got from the Vatican. My dad received me and talked to me for almost an hour. “I know,” the friend replied. “He called me.”
Petr Kovalev 2013
Today in our life the concept of "snobbery" is not used often, rather it is considered more bookish than colloquial. Nevertheless, we encounter snobs daily in different areas life, and no matter under what conditions it happens, in the process of communicating with them, one constantly feels false, as if this is not a person, but a character in a film or book that tries on new role. These people often repel, although they themselves do not notice what effect they produce on others, considering themselves a step above most people.
If we turn to history, the concept of "snob" first appeared in England, and it denoted the profession of "small shoemaker". After that, this word began to be used to characterize people who aspire to join high society and revere the aristocrats. What is the characteristic of snobbery today, who is a snob and how to distinguish it - our article is devoted to the answers to these questions.
Snobbery is...
In the classical sense, snobbery is the desire and inclination of a person to imitate the tastes and manners of the “upper class”, strive to get into this social circle and disparagingly treats all other people, deliberately humiliating their dignity and elevating himself with far-fetched refined taste and interests.
Main feature snobbery - arrogance, manifested in ridicule of others. Moreover, the presence of snobbery in a person's character is considered an indicator of his internal inferiority and mediocrity, although outwardly this fact is masked by refined manners of behavior.
Snobbery manifests itself in various forms and spheres of life. The following types of it are known: intellectual or professional, everyday, social and cultural, snobbery by origin, and so on.
For example, cultural snobbery is manifested not in the assessment of the aesthetic perception of the picture, but exclusively in the assessment of the author of the work and his authority in the circles of “art connoisseurs”. As an example of a kind of intellectual snobbery, a person is considered who, in his opinion, understands wine. Although in fact his opinion is not based on personal preferences, but only on the opinion of "authoritative" people, to the circle of which he wants to include himself.
Often people confuse snobbery with hypocrisy, but still these concepts are not identical. Snobbery is different in that a person is not fully aware that he lives in the illusions of his own "I" and only tries to pass himself off as an intellectual who stands above those around him. Often life develops in such a way that snobs get so used to these thoughts that they begin to seriously believe in their significance and honorable position in society.
True, in order to try to achieve the desired heights in practice and stop passing off other people's thoughts and behaviors as their own, such a person is not ready to do anything. Snobbery is limited to imitation. A person does not want to be an individual, it is enough for him to create an illusion in the eyes of others in order to feel special. Everything in his life is reduced to the outer shell, while the filling has no meaning.
It is believed that snobbery is most inherent in British society, it manifests itself in all areas, especially with regard to social status.
Snob - who is it?
Considering typical features snobbery, it is not difficult to paint a portrait of a modern snob.
A snob is a person who considers himself, and not those around him, to be the owner of high taste and intelligence. He tries to emphasize as much as possible the outward belonging to that society, to which, in fact, he has no relation. Snob is distinguished by arrogance and swagger. This concept has 3 synonyms: proud, show off and poseur. All of them include similar traits of a person's character, but are used with different emotional overtones, for example, characterizing the "arrogance" of a person.
The snob carefully guards his image and sincerely believes that he looks absolutely natural in this. He simply needs people around who are ready to listen to his "special" opinion, because in solitude he himself feels his own falsity.
But the snob also treats the environment selectively, is able to easily stop communicating with those who do not act according to the standards adopted by him, although this only applies to people “on a step below”. If this concerns a representative of the "upper class", then the snob will not attach any importance to this, because the "upper class" has undeniable authority for him.
The snob, at the first opportunity, tries to emphasize his merits in contrast with other people. He likes to point out what most people don't have, while showing disdain for his appearance. Moreover, for a snob, it doesn’t matter what exactly his advantage will be, only the fact itself is important.
From the outside, it seems that the life of a snob comes down to the fact that he seems to be playing in the theater, creating images and scenery around him. It is important for him that others consider him a chosen person and belonging to the highest circles, then he himself will feel his own nobility, without worrying that inside himself he is most likely insecure and not interesting person without their own judgments and goals in life.
Distinctive features of a snob or how to recognize snobbery
Although a rather detailed description of a snob has already been presented above, in real life it is not so easy to recognize him. But nevertheless, distinctive features are known that help to determine snobbery in the character of the interlocutor.
- If a person given name seems insufficient for his "high" nature, then you have a snob. For example, this manifests itself if Ira perceives her own name only as "Irena", and Masha - only "Marie" and nothing else.
- If a person has reached relatives living in the 15th century in studying the pedigree, and does not plan to stop there, believing that he is a representative of blue blood, this is not a simple desire to find out his roots, but rather a kind of snobbery.
- Disdainful attitude towards compatriots and praise of foreigners in a conversation indicate that your interlocutor is a snob.
- If a person tries to prove that people in the world live better than you and their happiness is full-fledged happiness, especially if by doing this he seeks to belittle your event, do not hesitate - snobbery speaks in this person.
- If a photo with a celebrity hangs in an honorable and prominent place in the house and a lot of attention is paid to this fact, then this characterizes the owner of the house as a snob who wants to flaunt the importance of his personality in such an unoriginal way.
Snob considers himself a representative of "blue" blood These are far from all the distinctive features of a snob that are striking when communicating, but still typical and characteristic. The conclusion suggests itself as follows: no matter how he covers own life scenery, the snob will still remain a person who cannot feel the fullness of life. He does not receive full enjoyment, because he cannot and does not know how to either relax or realize himself without regard to others. And this “lack of happiness”, the incompleteness of life is what pushes this person to the manifestation of snobbery, as to some kind of compensation.
When communicating with a snob, especially if this communication involves a protracted nature, use the following rules to prevent the snob from dropping your dignity, but at the same time avoid direct conflict with him.
First of all, try to find with him common topics for conversation, able to somehow “relax” the interlocutor and translate the conversation into a pleasant channel for both. Also, don't live up to the snob's expectations and don't typically respond to his desire to "belittle" your dignity.
Competent behavior in this matter will only advantageously emphasize your positive aspects, which the snob will diligently belittle. But still, it is worth avoiding conflicting topics of conversation, and if it is not possible to establish communication in a positive way, then it is better to find a reason to leave at all than to try to prove something to a person who lives with other people's thoughts and goals.
Snobbery is, of course, negative trait character of a person. But it is important to remember that fighting him, you can turn into an anti-snob. An antisnob is a person who looks for traits of snobbery in others and points specifically to them. Also, antisnobs like to emphasize that they are completely different people, but they do it so often that they do not notice how they themselves become snobs.
Many people assume that a snob is an arrogant person who finds himself superior to others for some reason, takes pride in it, and blatantly demonstrates his superiority. Other people usually find his demeanor repulsive, as it is unpleasant for them to see an obvious and unreasonable underestimation of their own material, intellectual, cultural or other level. The main personal quality of a snob can be called pride and pride, directed towards vanity.
Who is a snob?
A snob is a person prone to narcissism, possessing delusions of grandeur and worshiping what, in his opinion, belongs to the high and prestigious. It is characteristic of him to exaggerate the significance of some things.
The snob very carefully observes the style rules of the circle of people to which he wants to relate. At the same time, he sincerely believes that he most subtly and correctly understands all the requirements of characteristic fashion. Snob behaviors boil down to admiration for what the elite values. But objects or works of art are recognized not because of their true value, but because their properties are understood by representatives of the upper class, who need to be like.
The snob feels the need to enjoy his own importance. But this is impossible alone, as he feels the need to stand out from others. In addition, weak-minded people are not able to be alone with themselves for a long time.
What is characteristic of a snob personality?
It is common for a snob to end a relationship with a person who does not act according to the inflated standards he requires. However, if the representative high class, which the proud man wants to relate to, also makes a similar mistake, then this goes unnoticed. That is, a snob breaks off relations with a good and smart person, if he buys products in the market, and not in an elite supermarket. But at the same time, if famous person imitated by the proud, acts in a similar way, then the hypocrite confirms the correctness of his choice. It is common for a snob to exaggerate the importance of the system of division into classes in society.
Other people are usually not even going to compete with him or prove their superiority, and until he appears, they don’t even know that something is wrong with them. The snob experiences an intuitive desire to develop a flawed feeling in acquaintances and relatives and rise at their expense.
How does a snob choose his circle of acquaintances?
At the same time, it cannot be said that the snob is dishonest in his actions, since he actually considers himself better than others. This person believes that his knowledge is special, his manners are refined, his taste is refined, or his origin is more noble than other people. The snob does not maintain relationships with acquaintances who do not "hold out" to his level, and if such people accidentally fall into his environment, he cuts off all contacts with them.
It is very important for a snob to be superior to other people in some way, so such a person can first pay attention to what the majority does not have and draw his own conclusions about their failure. After that, he deliberately demonstrates his superiority, creating in the minds of acquaintances the illusion of the need to possess the same that he has. Due to the lack of such a criterion in people, the snob behind the scenes indicates (by gestures, facial expressions, actions) their low status. The snob's manner of communication is to look past the interlocutor, filtering words through his teeth.
What is a snob proud of?
Talent, a large amount of money, connections with high-ranking people, and so on can act as a subject of pride. There are also reverse cases, when the snob clearly demonstrates his superiority in the ability to possess something less than his acquaintances, or simply different. By and large, the snob is absolutely indifferent to what the advantage is. His manner of communication is to present his views and property as the most correct in any situation.
Many examples can be given:
- A laptop is better than a desktop computer.
- An outdated and simple phone model is preferable to a new and cutting-edge one.
- A house outside the city is better than an apartment in an elite central area (it happens vice versa).
- More modern technology better than that that was bought even a year ago.
- Antique items are valued above any other.
- A small car is better than a big one because it is more manoeuvrable.
- An expensive large car is better than a small one, as it is more prestigious, and so on.
Varieties of snobs
Many people know the preference for high-quality branded items over ordinary consumer goods. But it is not always possible or even a desire to acquire, for example, a leather belt of a prestigious and best brand. A smart decision is to buy a product with the same functionality trademark average level, which is done by a person who is adequate in his actions. And society fully accepts his choice.
But there is certain type people who literally worship brands. Usually these individuals have a considerable inferiority complex. They believe that even an ordinary, even low-quality thing with a label will be bought than a completely natural and decent thing, but without it. Such people increase their own importance in their own eyes, acquiring more and more luxury brand products.
There is also snobbery, based on an unshakable belief in superiority in mental qualities or external attractiveness. It happens that this happens on a religious level, as adherents of the correct religion go to Heaven, and everyone else goes to Hell. Or a feeling of superiority arises in relation to people with dark color skin or to residents of third world countries. Such a person and society do not belong to harmonious relationship, because the person experiences an internal protest before his origin.
Snobbery in art is manifested in the assertion that a person from the outside is not capable of evaluating a real work. As if this is common sense, but in fact, a real creator creates something at the behest inner voice. And a connoisseur or an intelligent person who is interested in art can see something for himself in a work, feel it, without having any specific knowledge.
History of occurrence
The concept of "snob" originated in England and meant a person of the profession "small shoemaker". Then this word began to be called individuals who want to join high society and rub themselves into the environment of aristocrats. At that time, the hypocrite did not have the appropriate taste in clothes, which was very noticeable. But gradually this quality disappeared, as a modern snob is a person who looks fashionable and stylish.
The type of "English snob" appeared in Great Britain in the Victorian era as a result of the emergence of a commercial aristocracy - a new social class. Its representatives are characterized not by noble origin, but by significance in the political and economic spheres. At that time, aristocrats and landowners had significant influence, but new class in every possible way sought to acquire the appropriate status.
A snob is just an upstart?
One cannot call a snob an ordinary upstart simply because he takes great care to keep secret all information about his lowly origin. At the same time, only a snob can think so, since all his acquaintances do not at all consider that with their social status there is a problem that needs to be hidden.
This is also evidenced by his belief in his uniqueness and conviction in the right to occupy a high position. But famous people by and large, they do not interest him as a person, since he only needs from them belonging to a high class.
For example, a careerist may try to associate with the rich and successful people in order to learn from them knowledge and experience, to establish relationships that may contribute to career advancement, to make new acquaintances. But the snob believes that he already relates to noble people, so he should communicate only with them. It is as if he plays a role in the theater, creating scenery for himself.
Snob-intellectual, cultural and musical pride
There is such a variety as the snobbish intellectual, which appeared in the 20th century. This is true of contemporary British society as well. Such snobbery is based on special mental abilities, wonderful refined taste. A person who understands wine (considers himself to be such) is considered as a kind of intellectual snobbery. He believes that his knowledge and taste are special.
There is also a cultural snob. This is a person who understands culture, literature, art, has an encyclopedic mind, visits art galleries.
A musical snob is a proud person who is deeply passionate about music and knows a lot about it. Buys CDs in bulk, attends concerts, keeps track of latest trends, versed in musical directions, always aware of the release of new albums and looking forward to them. Such a person is the most harmless of all kinds of snobs. His interlocutors for many hours of conversations about reviews, compositions and other things are mostly on the Internet. In fact, it cannot be said that a snob is a fully intelligent person, since he only creates the appearance of such.
Fashionable, office and snob-bourgeois
There are snobs who have significant material wealth, allowing them to acquire things that are not available to many. Buy exclusive goods only for the prestige of owning them snob-bourgeois.
A fashionable snob is a person who is interested in fashionable and expensive clothes of famous brands. Such people disapprove of the owners of simple and inexpensive things.
A person holding intermediate management positions (deputy chief, department head) can be defined as an office snob. The meaning of this concept is in admiration for leadership and an arrogant attitude towards subordinate colleagues.
The British themselves are considered an arrogant nation, so they are often accused of snobbery due to excessive self-confidence. For modern British society, the manifestation of snobbery in any social class in relation to representatives of the lower class is characteristic.
Snobbery is a concept that represents the thoughts and actions characteristic of a snob. snobbery is in simple terms excessive arrogance and pride in one's exclusive position (actual, ideal or claimed), implying admiration for the way and manners that are a reflection of one's own aspirations. This concept can reflect the high intellectuality of a person, his exceptionally refined taste, well-deserved authority and respect in certain circles, but with the amendment that he will tell about all these achievements himself, and not wait until others notice it.
Snobbery always betrays a person's inconsistency with a particular way of life or society. So wealthy merchants, who surpassed the intelligentsia in their wealth, could easily buy a place among these people. After that, elements of snobbery began to slip in their behavior more and more clearly in attempts to imitate the behavior and manners of secular and educated people for which there were no prerequisites, no sufficient education, no upbringing. The desire to compensate for the missing skills with a proud appearance, excessive luxury, big expenses, cheeky behavior and other elements that are not directly related to the manifestation of a person’s level are elements of snobbery.
The meaning of the word snobbery was adjusted depending on the era, but the emotional coloring of this personal quality always remained negative. It is always a desire to keep up with the level that a person objectively does not correspond to, and he tries to do this at the expense of external tinsel, and not work on his own personality.
Who is a snob
A snob is a person who belongs to one of the privileged social circles. However, in the context of building modern society, the boundaries of various levels are becoming more and more blurred, and it is possible to get into one of the circles of the elite without having any money, education, or connections. That is, a snob can feel his pride, being in any social stratum that considers himself an elite, while objectivity is not important for self-perception of being superior to other people.
The snob manifests itself in emphasizing the qualities and behaviors recognized in the selected group. This can be achieved by excessively demonstrative behavior, appropriate clothing and style of conversation. All the brightness of this opposition is intended to emphasize the uniqueness of a person and the eliteness of the group to which he belongs, while the significance of other people's opinions and achievements is assessed as too petty or unworthy.
And snobbery is not synonymous, here the concept of contempt for the rest, not belonging to the class of the chosen people, is closer. He can allow himself unflattering comments, tell people what to do and in every possible way speak negatively about their worldview.
Snobs always talk about their achievements and high traits, which is important, a really modest person will not talk about his modesty, but a spiritual person will reproach others for the lack of spirituality. While such speeches are quite acceptable to a snob, and he will not even think about what the contradiction is. The line of behavior is always demonstrative, bordering on shocking, and if a person considers himself to be among the elite of show business, then the level of shocking can reach those limits where it is already perceived as something ridiculous. Attempts to portray refined taste and refined manners seem organic only to the snob himself, while for people who understand such games they look as implausible as diamonds sold on the market.
It is common for snobs to visit exhibitions and concerts, various cultural or lounge events to emphasize their uniqueness. The value is not so much the importance of what is happening, as art, but how closed the exhibition will be - and the fewer nominal invitations, the greater the desire of the snob to get there, regardless of their preferences. 
All imitation of the tastes of the chosen society is blind, and being alone with yourself or in the company of other people who are not related to the chosen society, the snob is lost, does not know what line of behavior to choose or what to tell about himself to others. The exclusivity of activities is important to him only while others are around, but he will not engage in such activities in free time for pleasure. This is often how it happens high-profile scandals from famous personalities who were accidentally seen in an inappropriate place or in an unworthy occupation in relation to the image that they carefully created.
The importance of feeling your life fades into the background, as well as the search for your true purpose. For a snob, the main thing is to create a favorable external image and its careful maintenance - happiness, confidence, well-being are also not so much sensual categories as moments of complementing the necessary image. As a result, imitation selects individuality and the possibility of creative manifestation of oneself as a person.
Against the background of the hypervalue of one's own image and the selected group, humiliating behavior and statements about other people and concepts become characteristic. It is not always possible to show one's superiority, only by playing a role well, especially with a lack of objective qualities, therefore snobs often try to rise at the expense of humiliating others, reducing their significance and beauty. So when it is not possible to write a project better than someone else, the snob will most likely choose the tactic of discrediting a person by his intellectual level, and no matter how true these conclusions are.
It is important that deep down or in the evening, removing all the masks, a person is still aware of his worthlessness, or at least inconsistency with reality. Under favorable conditions and the firmness of the internal foundations, it is possible to admit this to oneself on long time, connect others and really engage in self-development. In most cases, this is only a momentary weakness, after which the number of caustic mockery of others increases.
Examples of snobbery
Examples of snobbery are all demonstrative actions and acquisitions, the meaning of which is emphasized. It can be a really expensive house, plane, car, necessary for a person so that others understand his merits on the professional path, guess about his intellect and capabilities. But that doesn't mean all major purchases will be talking about this capacity, where more often there are cases of buying fakes and counterfeit goods in order to create the appearance of conformity with the circle where the person is.
Remembering that the snob is more pursuing apparent well-being than actual, we can see that a man cannot bear to be among those who wear a gold watch, and he will buy fake ones for himself. A girl, getting into the circle of glamorous friends, can no longer afford to walk in high-quality, but not branded clothes, hence a lot of Chinese fakes appear.
This applies to the material level, but there are also manifestations at the level when a person has chosen a class of scientists or people of art. He will close his own gaps, also focusing on names and labels, that is, the words of a famous professor will be more important to him than personal opinion. The author of the picture will influence the purchase decision much more than own attitude to the combination of form and color.
Examples of professional snobbery are vivid when a young employee comes to an established team and someone begins to teach him. hallmark it will be that the mentor will not help, but each time will use the opportunity to point out the incompetence of the new employee and raise his skills against his background.
There is snobbery based on one's place of birth and residence - one can recall the attitude of metropolitans towards visitors and the interaction of some cities described even in jokes. This attribution of oneself to some class, which does not give formal advantages for more than one decade, causes precisely a large number of snobs. now than more people began to move, the less relevant is the manifestation of snobbery based on a geographical feature, but at the same time, the influence of fashion and mass media on the formation of the desired image and the desire to match it increases.
Is snobbery good or bad?
There was a perception of snobbery as a negative personality trait. This is due to the unpleasant emotions experienced by society at the sight of cheap deeds, demonstrative behavior and the inner emptiness of snobs. At the same time, from the perspective of building interaction, these are also not the most nice people who will only favor those who belong to their chosen circle, and even better will be one of the leading personalities there. With all the rest, snobs are treated like the lower class or do not even consider them to be people, they are quite cruel in their comments, experiences from which a person can result in deep psychological trauma.
But if you think a little more seriously, then in the end, snobbery does not bring anything bad within the framework of the development of culture as a whole. These people do not accept the lower manifestations of a person and will stop this, both in their own behavior and in those around them. They always contribute to the development of culture, even if they are not part of it or do not understand why the financing of this performance is so important in terms of youth development. Snobs will always strive to look beautiful and surround themselves with beautiful things - a matter of taste can be edited with the support of stylists or developed independently over time.
In any case, this is a desire for culture and beauty, which is not characteristic of all people. And a very active position in this matter helps to revive the lost cultural layers, to discover new ones. modern talents to develop society as a whole. This moment should not be ignored, since many really sensitive people who belong to the elite classes on their merits and, in fact, do not strive for such an enhanced development of their niche as snobs who burst in there, bought their own places and maybe that is why they value development so much as way to stay.
It's not often you hear someone being called a snob these days. Rather, the term is used in the literature. Snobbery - what does it mean? Surely each of us has met a person who, as it were, boasts of his “not like everyone else” position. He is arrogant towards people who speak differently from him, read other books, listen to different music, etc. We call such a person a snob and feel some kind of falseness in his behavior, as if he put on a mask of an intellectual and an aristocrat . What are the main characteristics of such a person?
Snob Characteristics
Snobbery - what is this "beast"? The main category that the snob operates on is high society. Such a person simply dreams of being a part of him and does everything to get closer to such people. The snob imitates manners, habits, tastes, which, in his opinion, are inherent in the elite. Although such a person himself does not belong to representatives of high society, he treats "mere mortals" mercilessly.
The meaning of the word "snobbery" has a mostly negative connotation due to the arrogant attitude of a person towards those who are not like him. The lower class, according to the snob, does not intellectually reach his level. Here it is necessary to remember who was originally called that. The first meaning is literally "shoemaker's apprentice", then it expanded to "commoner". Further, the concept of "snob" became associated with a commoner who imitates aristocrats with his behavior. Thus, the term itself characterizes a snob as a person who wants to get closer to the upper community, who hates his origin and in every possible way despises any of its manifestations.
Psychological aspects of snobbery
Why is snobbery so remarkable? What is this phenomenon in modern world? Although this concept is not widely used in ordinary speech, the snobs themselves are quite common. They claim some kind of exclusivity in everything they do. But after all, there are people with the same interests and hobbies as a snob, but unlike the latter, they do not boast of their addictions. The fact is that snobbery is an ostentatious phenomenon. Such a person strives with all his might to show his exclusivity. He denies himself and tries to imitate some ideal. Deep dissatisfaction with their position and even become the causes of snobbery.
Snobbery - what is it in terms of benefit and harm?
At first glance, this phenomenon is only negative sides. The snob exudes contempt for people who are different from him, while he himself is not something remarkable. However, the benefits and harms of snobbery in society cannot be judged one-sidedly. First, the phenomenon characterizes society as class-separated. This means that there is a gap between the so-called higher and lower society. After all, snobbery is nothing but a sophisticated form of envy. Secondly, snobs (whatever the motives underlying their behavior) strive for the manifestation of intelligence and aristocracy. And it supports to some extent cultural level society.
