SOCI201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Jean Piaget, Day Care

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI201
• Professor: Best Joel

Document Summary

It"s not just the doll, it"s the lifestyle: grownups get deeply immersed in barbie. It never ends: you can buy a new model of car or house, the point of barbie was to give girls an adult doll, she was a teenage fashion model. Criticism to barbie: very skinny, large boobs, she would weigh 101 pounds at 6ft tall, little girls idealize barbie, her shape sets little girls up for failure, some parents blame barbie for their child"s eating disorders. Mp: people were worried that barbie was teaching girls to not want to be mothers and to be career woman. Toy sales: girls toys are pink or purple, boys toys are blue, filled with bob the builder, other boy stuff. It hadn"t been for toy soldiers maybe world war 1 wouldn"t have been fought. Phil philips: novel: turmoil in the toy box, anti-religious messages, these toys were encouraging children to become satanists, the force.