Consuming Families : Buying and Making Family Life in the Twenty-First Century

English

Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology Ser.

Volume: 97

ISBN: 0415899214

EAN: 9780415899215

Category: Family & Relationships / Family Relationships/House & Home / General/

Publisher: Routledge

Release Date: 08/31/2012

Synopsis: This book explores contemporary families as sites of consumption, examining the changing contexts of family life, where new forms of family are altering how family life is practised and produced, and addressing key social issues childhood obesity, alchohol and drug addiction, social networking, viral marketing that put pressure on families as the social, economic and regulatory environments of consumption change.

Consuming Families : Buying and Making Family Life in the Twenty-First Century

Illustrated: No

Format: Hardcover

Width: 0.6 inches

Length: 0.9 inches

Weight: 0.0 oz

Pages: 198