ISBN:
0739129473
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9780739129470
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1282495844
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9781282495845
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9780739141922
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0739141929
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (viii, 149 pages)
Parallel Title:
Print version Children, consumerism, and the common good
DDC:
306.3
Keywords:
Child labor
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Advertising and children
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Advertising and children
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Child labor
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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Advertising and children
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Child labor
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
"Children, Consumerism, and the Common Good explores the impact of consumer culture on the lives of children in the United States and globally, focusing on two phenomena: advertising to children and child labor. Christian communities have a critical role to ploy in securing the well-being of children and challenging the cultural trends that undermine that well-being. Exploring themes in the tradition of Catholic social teaching, Mary M. Doyle Roche argues that children have a claim on the fruits of our common life and should participate in that life according to their age and ability. Roche utilizes the principle of the common good to analyze children's participation in the market and suggests opportunities for resistance and transformation in the context of the consumerism that pervades everyday life."--Jacket
Description / Table of Contents:
Reading the signs of the times : consumer culture and the commercialization of childhoodChildren's rights and family values -- Children and the common good -- A model of resistance and transformation : the Cristo Rey story -- Conclusion : keeping Christmas well.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
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