From "compensation" to "childhood wonder"

Pugh, Allison J. “From "compensation" to "childhood wonder"”. Berkeley Center for Working Families Working Paper No. 39, Berkeley, CA: Center for Working Families, University of California, Berkeley, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/4119.
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Abstract

This paper considers how American parents consume on behalf of their children, and their reasons for doing so, in the hopes of helping to untangle the work/family knot at the center. My research involves interviews and fieldwork with a white, largely middle-class sample of married and single mothers of 8-year-old children and is part of a larger study of what I call "child-rearing consumption" in general. In this paper, I outline a working typology of why parents consume and then delve more deeply into two of the most important aspects: consumption as compensation and as a conduit to childhood wonder.

Title
From "compensation" to "childhood wonder": Why parents buy
Author
Pugh, Allison J.
Center
Work and Family Research Network
Genre
working paper
Date Issued
2002
Publisher
Center for Working Families, University of California, Berkeley
Extent
20 p.
Series Title
Berkeley Center for Working Families Working Paper
Series Number
No. 39
General Note
Allison Pugh is a Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Working Families and a Ph.D. candidate in the Sociology Department at the University of California, Berkeley.
Persistent Link
http://hdl.handle.net/2345/4119
Use Restrictions
Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons "Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States" (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/)

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