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Chapter 1 Introduction
A£® Tom Wolfe as a Journalist and Novelist
B£® Social Status as Wolfe's Major Concern

Chapter 2 The Bonfire of the Vanities—— A Bourdieuian Analysis of the Shifting Power Dynamics in 1980s New York
A New York City in the 1980s
1£® Racialized Economy and Reaganomics£º Growing Disparity between White and Black
2£® Master City Builder Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
3£® South Bronx Decay£º Demographic Shift and Highway Incursion
4£® Misleading Media Report Intensifying Racial Conflict
B£® Characters' Quest for Social Status£º Use and Abuse of Different Forms of Capital
1£® Social Stratification and Individual Habitus
2£® Quest For Economic Capital Fueled by the "Bonfire of Vanity"
3£® Social Capital Conferring Power and Status
4£® Symbolic Capital Exercising Violence£º Political Correctness and Moral Superiority
C£® Inheritance of and Transcendence over Naturalistic Writing
1£® The City Itself Becoming the Displaced Source of Anxiety
2£® Comparison with Dreiser's Naturalist Novel Sister Carrie

Chapter 3 A Man in Full—— Southern Cultural Drift as Shown in the Case of Its New Center£¬ Atlanta
A£® Shifting Power Dynamics in the New South
1£® Rising Economic and Political Influence of the African Americans in the South
2£® Dixie Tradition on the Skids
3£® Atlanta£¬ a Rising International City in the New South
4£® Social Division of the Atlanta Society by "Identity Politics
B£® The Triad of Male Characters' Quest for Status£® Vibrancy of Atlanta's Material Culture and Spiritual Malaise Coexisting with It
1£® Charlie Croker's Struggle to Retain Manhood in a Veblenian Society
2£® Conrad Hensley£º Messenger of Epictetus in a Panopticon
3£® Roger White£º Black Bourgeoisie Torn by Racial Identity Crisis
C£® Cultural Drift£¬ the Old South Giving Way to the New Atlanta of Ambition and Lust
1£® Sexual Revolution and Subjugation of Women as Trophies
2£® Social Corruption and Discourses of Political Correctness Blighting the South
3£® Proclaimed Realist Writer Verging on Postmodernism

Chapter 4 I am Charlotte Simmons—— Self Caught in the Hooking Up Culture
A£® Hooking Up Culture in the New Millennium
1£® Youth at the End of the Century
2£® Post-feminism and Active Girlhood
3£® Pressure From Peer Influence and Collective Behavior
4£® Consuming Youth and Gender in Popular Culture
B£® Charlotte's Pursuit for Status£º Free Will Succumbing to Prevailing Values on Campus
1£® Status System on Campus£º a Chimp Colony with Alpha Males
2£® Free Will Against A Neuroscientific Understanding of Self
C£® Wolfe Losing Faith in Nietzsche's Overman

Chapter 5 Conclusion
Bibliography
Index