Young Consumers: Volume 14 Issue 4

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Influences in children's materialism: a conceptual framework

Juan Francisco Dávila, Mònica Casabayó

This paper aims to answer two questions: According to research carried out in the last decades, what are the factors that influence materialism in children? And, can these factors…

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Children's food meanings and eating contexts: schools and their surroundings

Ana Horta, Monica Truninger, Silvia Alexandre, Jose Teixeira, Vanda Aparecida da Silva

Concerns on children's obesity and overweight have been related to food diets with excessive sugar and fat. Given the relevance of school meals in Portuguese children's lives…

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“I love my bones!”1 – self-harm and dangerous eating youth behaviours in Portuguese written blogs

Teresa Sofia Castro, António José Osório

Family, media and peer pressure seem to influence adolescent development activating the perception and internalisation of thin ideals that may trigger dieting, bingeing and other…

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Objects for a “healthy lifestyle”: children's material culture and physical activities

Pascale Garnier

The aim of the research is to emphasise the role of material culture, and especially the role of objects related to physical activities, in children's socialization. It involves…

Licensing and the rhetoric of fun: the cute and the cool

Gilles Brougère

This paper was presented at the CTC conference of Milan 2012. It aims to analyse how licensing is used in the different ways of addressing items to children. This way of…

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Deconstructing Emo lifestyle and aesthetics: a netnographic research

Ariela Mortara, Simona Ironico

The aim of this paper is to analyse the role of creative re-appropriation of goods, symbols, and other manifestations of the dominant material culture in the Emo subculture…

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“You can't buy friends, but … ” children's perception of consumption and friendship

Erika Lundby

– This article aims to explore, and compare, the perceived association between economic resources and peer relationships among two age groups of Swedish tweens.

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Cover of Young Consumers

ISSN:

1747-3616

e-ISSN:

1758-7212

ISSN-L:

1747-3616

Online date, start – end:

2002

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Hiram Ting