Children, Consumerism, and the Common Good - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Children, Consumerism, and the Common Good write by Mary M. Doyle Roche. This book was released on 2009. Children, Consumerism, and the Common Good available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 play 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. Book jacket.
Children, Consumerism, and the Common Good
Children, Consumerism, and the Common Good - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Children, Consumerism, and the Common Good write by Mary M. Doyle Roche. This book was released on 2009-09-17. Children, Consumerism, and the Common Good available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 play in securing the well-being of children and challenging the cultural trends that undermine that well-being. Themes in the tradition of Catholic social teaching can move us beyond the tensions between children's rights activists and those who propose a return to 'family values' and can inform practices of resistance, participation, and transformation. Roche argues that children are full, interdependent members of the communities of which they are a part. They have a claim on the fruits of our common life and are called to participate in that life according to their age and ability. The principle of the common good forms the benchmark for analyzing children's participation in the market and the ways in which market logic shapes other institutions of civil society, particularly educational institutions. The Cristo Rey Network of schools is highlighted as an example of institutional transformation which shapes children's participation in education and the economic life of their families and communities in a spirit of solidarity.
Purchasing Power
Purchasing Power - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Purchasing Power write by Elizabeth M. Liew Siew Chin. This book was released on 2001. Purchasing Power available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What does it mean to be young, poor, and black in our consumer culture? Are black children "brand-crazed consumer addicts" willing to kill each other over a pair of the latest Nike Air Jordans or Barbie backpack? In this first in-depth account of the consumer lives of poor and working-class black children, Elizabeth Chin enters the world of children living in hardship in order to understand the ways they learn to manage living poor in a wealthy society. To move beyond the stereotypical images of black children obsessed with status symbols, Chin spent two years interviewing poor children in New Haven, Connecticut, about where and how they spend their money. An alternate image of the children emerges, one that puts practicality ahead of status in their purchasing decisions. On a twenty-dollar shopping spree with Chin, one boy has to choose between a walkie-talkie set and an X-Men figure. In one of the most painful moments of her research, Chin watches as Davy struggles with his decision. He finally takes the walkie-talkie set, a toy that might be shared with his younger brother. Through personal anecdotes and compelling stories ranging from topics such as Christmas and birthday gifts, shopping malls, Toys-R-Us, neighborhood convenience shops, school lunches, ethnically correct toys, and school supplies, Chin critically examines consumption as a medium through which social inequalities -- most notably of race, class, and gender -- are formed, experienced, imposed, and resisted. Along the way she acknowledges the profound constraints under which the poor and working class must struggle in their daily lives.
Virtue and the Moral Life
Virtue and the Moral Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Virtue and the Moral Life write by William Werpehowski. This book was released on 2014-07-22. Virtue and the Moral Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The scope of interest and reflection on virtue and the virtues is as wide and deep as the questions we can ask about what makes a moral agent’s life decent, or noble, or holy rather than cruel, or base, or sinful; or about the conditions of human character and circumstance that make for good relations between family members, friends, workers, fellow citizens, and strangers, and the sorts of conditions that do not. Clearly these questions will inevitably be directed to more finely grained features of everyday life in particular contexts. Virtue and the Moral Life: Theological and Philosophical Perspectives takes up these questions. In its ten timely and original chapters, it considers the specific importance of virtue ethics, its public significance for shaping a society’s common good, the value of civic integrity, warfare and returning soldiers’ sense of enlarged moral responsibility, the care for and agency of children in contemporary secular consumer society, and other questions involving moral failure, humility, and forgiveness.
Children, Adults, and Shared Responsibilities
Children, Adults, and Shared Responsibilities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Children, Adults, and Shared Responsibilities write by Marcia J. Bunge. This book was released on 2012-09-27. Children, Adults, and Shared Responsibilities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Collected essays discussing religious and ethical perspectives on children and obligations to them within the religious traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Contributes to intellectual inquiry regarding children in the specific areas of children's rights and childhood studies, and provides resources for child advocates and those engaged in interreligious dialogue.
