SOC 525 Lecture Notes - Tokenism, Consumerism, Moral Panic
27 Jan 2014
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They have a secretary that takes care of their businesses and do not have to do a lot by himself. Focused on health and appearance, consumerism promotion and having leisure time to have to work out. Living as a professional in a high end neighborhood plus have high class furniture (all white and silver rooms) Professional class families are the good adults that take good responsible roles in terms of taking care of their children. Age: defined age from the time we were born to continuously age and progress through life and different markers throughout our life, become signifiers of our age. Adults age from young adults to old adults (teenagers to adults and adults to elders). Under capitalism, we think adults work we give them praise. When it comes to consumerism, teenagers are the ideal group but when it comes to work we"re depicted negatively. Ideology of youth: we value work and consumerism.
