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Longing and belonging parents, children, and consumer culture

Title: Longing and belonging [electronic resource] : parents, children, and consumer culture / Allison J. Pugh.
Author: Pugh, Allison J.
Publication: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.

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Description

1 online resource (xvii, 301 p.)

Uniform Title

Longing and belonging (Online)

Alternative Title

Longing and belonging (Online)

Subject

Consumer behavior > Social aspects > California > Case studies
Consumption (Economics) > Social aspects > California > Case studies
Child consumers > California > Case studies
Parent and child > California > Case studies

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-291) and index.

Access (note)

Access restricted to authorized users.

Contents

Care and belonging in the market -- Differences in common: studying inequality -- Making do: children and the economy of dignity -- Ambivalence and allowances: affluent parents respond -- The alchemy of desire into need: dilemmas of low-income parenting -- Saying no: resisting children's consumer desires -- Consuming contexts, buying hope: shaping the pathways of children -- Conclusion : Beyond the tyranny of sameness.

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