Childhood And Markets
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Author |
: Lydia Martens |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 284 |
Release |
: 2018-07-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781137315038 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1137315032 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Childhood and Markets by : Lydia Martens
This book explores how young children and new families are located in the consumer world of affluent societies. The author assesses the way in which the value of infants and monetary value in markets are realized together, and examines how the meanings of childhood are enacted in the practices, narratives and materialities of contemporary markets. These meanings formulate what is important in the care of young children, creating moralities that impact not only on new parents, but also circumscribe the possibilities for monetary value creation. Three main understandings of early childhood - those of love, protection and purification - and their interrelationships are covered, and illustrated with examples including food, feeding tools, nappies, travel systems and toys. The book concludes by re-examining the relationship between adulthood and the cultural value of young children, and by discussing the implications of the ways markets address young children, also examines the realities of older children in consumer culture. Childhood and Markets will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology, childhood studies, anthropology, cultural studies, media studies, business studies and marketing.
Author |
: Sharon Beder |
Publisher |
: ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages |
: 654 |
Release |
: 2010-10-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781459604995 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1459604997 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis This Little Kiddy Went to Market by : Sharon Beder
This Little Kiddy Went to Market investigates the way that corporations are targeting younger children with a barrage of advertising and marketing designed to turn them into hyper consumers who define themselves by what they have rather than who they are. The book argues that school reforms, driven by corporate needs, are largely to blame. It be...
Author |
: Susan Linn |
Publisher |
: Anchor |
Total Pages |
: 306 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781400079995 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1400079993 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Consuming Kids by : Susan Linn
Looks at the way corporations and advertisers target children as a profitable demographic, as well as their methods for getting past parental safeguards to make products of all kinds appeal directly to even the youngest children.
Author |
: A. Kjørholt |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 301 |
Release |
: 2011-10-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780230314054 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0230314058 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Modern Child and the Flexible Labour Market by : A. Kjørholt
This book sheds light on new research related to welfare state, child care policies, and small children's everyday lives in institutions in Europe. In uniting recent social childhood research, welfare perspectives and historical and comparative approaches, the book explores institutionalization as a feature of the modern child's life.
Author |
: Benjamin R. Barber |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 414 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0393049612 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780393049619 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis Con$umed by : Benjamin R. Barber
"Offers a vivid portrait of a global economy that overproduces goods and targets children as consumers ... where the primary goal is no longer to manufacture goods but needs." - cover.
Author |
: Guy Roberts-Holmes |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 199 |
Release |
: 2021-04-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780429638749 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0429638744 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Neoliberalism and Early Childhood Education by : Guy Roberts-Holmes
Neoliberalism, with its worldview of competition, choice and calculation, its economisation of everything, and its will to govern has ‘sunk its roots deep’ into Early Childhood Education and Care. This book considers its deeply detrimental impacts upon young children, families, settings and the workforce. Through an exploration of possibilities for resistance and refusal, and reflection on the significance of the coronavirus pandemic, Roberts-Holmes and Moss provide hope that neoliberalism’s current hegemony can be successfully contested. The book provides a critical introduction to neoliberalism and three closely related and influential concepts – Human Capital theory, Public Choice theory and New Public Management – as well as an overview of the impact of neoliberalism on compulsory education, in particular through the Global Education Reform Movement. With its main focus on Early Childhood Education and Care, this book argues that while neoliberalism is a very powerful force, it is ‘deeply problematic, eminently resistible and eventually replaceable’ – and that there are indeed alternatives. Neoliberalism and Early Childhood Education is an insightful supplement to the studies of students and researchers in Early Childhood Education and Sociology of Education, and is also highly relevant to policy makers.
Author |
: Daniel Thomas Cook |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 230 |
Release |
: 2004-04-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 082233268X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780822332688 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (8X Downloads) |
Synopsis The Commodification of Childhood by : Daniel Thomas Cook
DIVThrough a study of industry publications over much of the century, shows how the U.S. children’s clothing industry produced increasingly refined categories of childhood./div
Author |
: Michael J. Sandel |
Publisher |
: Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages |
: 246 |
Release |
: 2012-04-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781429942584 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1429942584 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis What Money Can't Buy by : Michael J. Sandel
In What Money Can't Buy, renowned political philosopher Michael J. Sandel rethinks the role that markets and money should play in our society. Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we put a price on human life to decide how much pollution to allow? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars, outsourcing inmates to for-profit prisons, auctioning admission to elite universities, or selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay? In his New York Times bestseller What Money Can't Buy, Michael J. Sandel takes up one of the biggest ethical questions of our time: Isn't there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale? If so, how can we prevent market values from reaching into spheres of life where they don't belong? What are the moral limits of markets? Over recent decades, market values have crowded out nonmarket norms in almost every aspect of life. Without quite realizing it, Sandel argues, we have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society. In Justice, an international bestseller, Sandel showed himself to be a master at illuminating, with clarity and verve, the hard moral questions we confront in our everyday lives. Now, in What Money Can't Buy, he provokes a debate that's been missing in our market-driven age: What is the proper role of markets in a democratic society, and how can we protect the moral and civic goods that markets do not honor and money cannot buy?
Author |
: Jyotsna Kapur |
Publisher |
: Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages |
: 213 |
Release |
: 2005-07-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780813537689 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0813537681 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Coining for Capital by : Jyotsna Kapur
Since the 1980s, a peculiar paradox has evolved in American film. Hollywood’s children have grown up, and the adults are looking and behaving more and more like children. In popular films such as Harry Potter, Toy Story, Pocahantas, Home Alone, and Jumanji, it is the children who are clever, savvy, and self-sufficient while the adults are often portrayed as bumbling and ineffective. Is this transformation of children into "little adults" an invention of Hollywood or a product of changing cultural definitions more broadly? In Coining for Capital, Jyostna Kapur explores the evolution of the concept of childhood from its portrayal in the eighteenth century as a pure, innocent, and idyllic state—the opposite of adulthood—to its expression today as a mere variation of adulthood, complete with characteristics of sophistication, temptation, and corruption. Kapur argues that this change in definition is not a media effect, but rather a structural feature of a deeply consumer-driven society. Providing a new and timely perspective on the current widespread alarm over the loss of childhood, Coining for Capital concludes that our present moment is in fact one of hope and despair. As children are fortunately shedding false definitions of proscribed innocence both in film and in life, they must now also learn to navigate a deeply inequitable, antagonistic, and consumer-driven society of which they are both a part and a target.
Author |
: David M. Blau |
Publisher |
: Russell Sage Foundation |
Total Pages |
: 207 |
Release |
: 1991-09-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781610440608 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1610440609 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Economics of Child Care by : David M. Blau
"David Blau has chosen seven economists to write chapters that review the emerging economic literature on the supply of child care, parental demand for care, child care cost and quality, and to discuss the implications of these analyses for public policy. The book succeeds in presenting that research in understandable terms to policy makers and serves economists as a useful review of the child care literature....provides an excellent case study of the value of economic analysis of public policy issues." —Arleen Leibowitz, Journal of Economic Literature "There is no doubt this is a timely book....The authors of this volume have succeeded in presenting the economic material in a nontechnical manner that makes this book an excellent introduction to the role of economics in public policy analysis, and specifically child care policy....the most comprehensive introduction currently available." —Cori Rattelman, Industrial and Labor Relations Review