| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Situated child consumption; An introduction; 1. Ontological child consumption; 2. Pricing the Priceless Child -- a wonderful problematic; 3. More children of better quality; Pricing the child in the welfare state; 4. A grown-up priceless child; 5. Not all about the money; Children, work, and consumption; 6. 'Consider the fact that I am considerate'; Parent-teen bargaining; 7. Enacting money at an amusement park; 8. Fatherhood through direct marketing; 9. 'I do like them but I don't watch them' |
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Preschoolers' use of age as an accounting device in product evaluations10. Tweens as a commercial target group; Children and Disney filling the category; 11. Fashioning girls; 12. Children, 'sexualization', and consumer culture; 13. 'The Littlest Arms Race'?; War toys and the boy consumer in Eighties' Canada; 14. Nobody panicked!; The Fifties' debate on children's comics consumption; About the authors. |
| Summary |
Providing extensive examples of the conditions of children's everyday consumption as well as how children themselves understand issues of work, money, scarcity, and consumer products, this book challenges the prevailing theories of consumption and opens up new ways of thinking about children. Arguing that consumption simultaneously reflects on the changing social role of children, family relations, market interaction, and state regulations, this account marries consumer studies with perspectives that emanate from the disciplines of childhood sociology and the history of childhood. With contrib. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Child consumers.
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Consumption (Economics)
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Demand (Economic theory)
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Consumer behavior.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. |
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Child consumers |
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Consumer behavior |
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Consumption (Economics) |
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Demand (Economic theory) |
| Added Author |
Sparrman, Anna, editor.
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Sandin, Bengt, editor.
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Sjöberg, Johanna, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sparrman, Anna. Situating Child Consumption : Rethinking Values and Notions of Children, Childhood and Consumption. Chicago : Nordic Academic Press, ©2012 9789185509706 |
| ISBN |
9789187351662 (electronic bk.) |
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9187351668 (electronic bk.) |
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9789185509706 |
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9185509701 |
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