Ebook: Con$umed: how markets corrupt children, infantilize adults, and swallow citizens whole
Author: Barber Benjamin R
- Tags: Capitalism, Capitalism--United States, Child consumers, Child consumers--United States, Consumenten, Consumer behavior, Consumer behavior--United States, Consumptiemaatschappij, Consumption (Economics), Consumption (Economics)--United States, Kind, Marketing, Mass society, Materialism--Social aspects, Materialism--Social aspects--United States, Psychologie, Social conditions, Verbraucherverhalten, Electronic books, Consumption (Economics) -- United States, Consumer behavior -- United States, Child consumers -- Unite
- Year: 2007
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- City: United States;USA
- Edition: First edition
- Language: English
- epub
An examination of the effects of capitalism on American culture and society reveals how consumer capitalism overproduces goods, targets children as consumers, and replaces public goods with private commodities.;The birth of consumers. Capitalism triumphant and the infantilist ethos ; From protestantism to puerility -- The eclipse of citizens. Infantilizing consumers: the coming of kidults ; Privatizing citizens: the making of civic schizophrenia ; Branding identities: the loss of meaning ; Totalizing society: the end of diversity -- The fate of citizens. Resisting consumerism: can capitalism cure itself? ; Overcoming civic schizophrenia: restoring citizenship in a world of interdependence.
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