ABSTRACT

This book explores contemporary families as sites of consumption, examining the changing contexts of family life, where new forms of family are altering how family life is practised and produced, and addressing key social issues – childhood obesity, alchohol and drug addiction, social networking, viral marketing – that put pressure on families as the social, economic and regulatory environments of consumption change.

chapter |24 pages

1 Introduction

Family Life and Consumption in the 21st Century

chapter |24 pages

3 Text Me

The “Mediation” of Everyday Family Life

chapter |25 pages

4 The “Big”Issues of Childhood

Family Responsibility for Children's Weight

chapter |27 pages

6 Seeing It and Doing It

Young People Families and Sex

chapter |4 pages

Conclusion

A New Purchase on Family Life