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Longing and belonging : parents, children, and consumer culture / / Allison J. Pugh



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Autore: Pugh Allison J Visualizza persona
Titolo: Longing and belonging : parents, children, and consumer culture / / Allison J. Pugh Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (321 p.)
Disciplina: 306.309794
Soggetto topico: Consumer behavior - Social aspects - California
Consumption (Economics) - Social aspects - California
Child consumers - California
Parent and child - California
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Care and Belonging in the Market -- Chapter 2. Differences in Common: Studying Inequality -- Chapter 3. Making Do: Children and the Economy of Dignity -- Chapter 4. Ambivalence and Allowances: Affluent Parents Respond -- Chapter 5. The Alchemy of Desire into Need: Dilemmas of Low-Income Parenting -- Chapter 6. Saying No: Resisting Children's Consumer Desires -- Chapter 7. Consuming Contexts, Buying Hope: Shaping the Pathways of Children -- Chapter 8. Conclusion: Beyond the Tyranny of Sameness -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Even as they see their wages go down and their buying power decrease, many parents are still putting their kids' material desires first. These parents struggle with how to handle children's consumer wants, which continue unabated despite the economic downturn. And, indeed, parents and other adults continue to spend billions of dollars on children every year. Why do children seem to desire so much, so often, so soon, and why do parents capitulate so readily? To determine what forces lie behind the onslaught of Nintendo Wiis and Bratz dolls, Allison J. Pugh spent three years observing and interviewing children and their families. In Longing and Belonging: Parents, Children, and Consumer Culture, Pugh teases out the complex factors that contribute to how we buy, from lunchroom conversations about Game Boys to the stark inequalities facing American children. Pugh finds that children's desires stem less from striving for status or falling victim to advertising than from their yearning to join the conversation at school or in the neighborhood. Most parents respond to children's need to belong by buying the particular goods and experiences that act as passports in children's social worlds, because they sympathize with their children's fear of being different from their peers. Even under financial constraints, families prioritize children "feeling normal". Pugh masterfully illuminates the surprising similarities in the fears and hopes of parents and children from vastly different social contexts, showing that while corporate marketing and materialism play a part in the commodification of childhood, at the heart of the matter is the desire to belong.
Titolo autorizzato: Longing and belonging  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-42258-1
9786613422583
0-520-94339-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910825836503321
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