Consuming anomie: Children and global commercial culture

Childhood

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 259-271

  Langer, Beryl ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anomie; Consumer capitalism; Generalized other; Global self; Symbolic resources

Indexed keywords

EID: 19944413671     PISSN: 09075682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0907568205051907     Document Type: Review

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