{"id":13338,"date":"2009-09-12T12:18:37","date_gmt":"2009-09-12T17:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=13338"},"modified":"2017-09-16T18:41:15","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T23:41:15","slug":"consuming-kids-the-commercialization-of-childhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/09\/12\/consuming-kids-the-commercialization-of-childhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amber W. let us know about the &#8220;Consuming Kids&#8221; video, which looks at how marketers target kids, both for their own spending power and for their influence over parents&#8217; spending.<\/p>\n<p>See also <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/06\/02\/hyper-consumerism-and-the-new-upper-middle-class-parent\/\">hyper-consumerism and parenting<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/04\/28\/girl-culture\/\">girl culture<\/a>, girls&#8217; shirts <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/12\/14\/no-surprise-wal-mart-shirts-for-girls-encourage-materialism-sexism\/\">encourage materialism<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/08\/05\/born-2-learn-to-find-gender-stereotypes-cute\/\">&#8220;born to shop&#8221; pacifier<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/06\/28\/extreme-radical-awesome-pictures-of-kids-n-their-um-stuff\/\">kids and their stuff<\/a>, good parenting <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/06\/05\/be-a-good-parent-through-consumption\/\">through consumption<\/a>, and more <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/05\/26\/the-constructioncommodification-of-modern-kids-and-good-parents\/\">commodification of kids and parenting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em>Gwen Sharp is an associate professor of sociology at Nevada State College. You can follow her on Twitter at @gwensharpnv.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amber W. let us know about the &#8220;Consuming Kids&#8221; video, which looks at how marketers target kids, both for their own spending power and for their influence over parents&#8217; spending. See also hyper-consumerism and parenting, girl culture, girls&#8217; shirts encourage materialism, &#8220;born to shop&#8221; pacifier, kids and their stuff, good parenting through consumption, and more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[223,227,272,23703],"class_list":["post-13338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrenyouth","tag-commodification","tag-marriagefamily","tag-marketing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13338"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71109,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13338\/revisions\/71109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}