Consuming Youth
Title | Consuming Youth PDF eBook |
Author | John Berard |
Publisher | Zondervan |
Total Pages | 194 |
Release | 2011-01-04 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0310296609 |
Today’s relentless, consumer culture—dominated by popular media’s emphasis on bigger, better, and more, and catering to teenagers every want and desire—is leaving our youth adrift in a sea of conflicting messages. Messages that every youth worker must be able to decode and redirect away from the material world towards helping young people become who God created them to be: givers instead of receivers, servers instead of consumers. Consuming Youth is for any adult who recognizes that following Jesus means leading young people through the pitfalls of consumer culture, helping them discover vocation—where their great gladness meets a world's great need, and unleashing the kingdom of God on earth.
Consuming Youth
Title | Consuming Youth PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Latham |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | 332 |
Release | 2007-11-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0226467023 |
From the novels of Anne Rice to The Lost Boys, from The Terminator to cyberpunk science fiction, vampires and cyborgs have become strikingly visible figures within American popular culture, especially youth culture. In Consuming Youth, Rob Latham explains why, showing how fiction, film, and other media deploy these ambiguous monsters to embody and work through the implications of a capitalist system in which youth both consume and are consumed. Inspired by Marx's use of the cyborg vampire as a metaphor for the objectification of physical labor in the factory, Latham shows how contemporary images of vampires and cyborgs illuminate the contradictory processes of empowerment and exploitation that characterize the youth-consumer system. While the vampire is a voracious consumer driven by a hunger for perpetual youth, the cyborg has incorporated the machineries of consumption into its own flesh. Powerful fusions of technology and desire, these paired images symbolize the forms of labor and leisure that American society has staked out for contemporary youth. A startling look at youth in our time, Consuming Youth will interest anyone concerned with film, television, and popular culture.
Consuming Youth
Title | Consuming Youth PDF eBook |
Author | John Berard |
Publisher | Youth Specialties |
Total Pages | 184 |
Release | 2011-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780310669357 |
Today's relentless, consumer culture---dominated by popular media's emphasis on bigger, better, and more, and catering to teenagers every want and desire---is leaving our youth adrift in a sea of conflicting messages. Messages that every youth worker must be able to decode and redirect away from the material world towards helping young people become who God created them to be: givers instead of receivers, servers instead of consumers. Consuming Youth is for any adult who recognizes that following Jesus means leading young people through the pitfalls of consumer culture, helping them discover vocation---where their great gladness meets a world's great need, and unleashing the kingdom of God on earth.
Consuming Youth
Title | Consuming Youth PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Arch Latham |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 304 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Consumer behavior |
ISBN |
Consuming Work
Title | Consuming Work PDF eBook |
Author | Yasemin Besen-Cassino |
Publisher | Temple University Press |
Total Pages | 232 |
Release | 2014-02-21 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9781439909485 |
Youth labor is an important element in our modern economy, but as students’ consumption habits have changed, so too have their reasons for working. In Consuming Work, Yasemin Besen-Cassino reveals that many American high school and college students work for social reasons, not monetary gain. Most are affluent, suburban, white youth employed in part-time jobs at places like the Coffee Bean so they can be associated with a cool brand, hangout with their friends, and get discounts. Consuming Work offers a fascinating picture of youth at work and how jobs are marketed to these students. Besen-Cassino also shows how the roots of gender and class inequality in the labor force have their beginnings in this critical labor sector. Exploring the social meaning of youth at work, and providing critical insights into labor and the youth workforce, Consuming Work contributes a deeper understanding of the changing nature of American labor.
Consuming Politics
Title | Consuming Politics PDF eBook |
Author | Dan Cassino |
Publisher | Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
Total Pages | 262 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0838641458 |
In this book, the authors use a combination of methods to understand how young people in the early twenty-first century see the political world, and why they are choosing not to be engaged in it. Special attention is paid to The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, the one political outlet that young people of all political stripes can agree on. Minimizing academic jargon and translating statistics into plain language, Consuming Politics is accessible to anyone who wants to know what happened to the angry youth and what can be done about it.
Eat This Not That! for Kids!
Title | Eat This Not That! for Kids! PDF eBook |
Author | David Zinczenko |
Publisher | Rodale Books |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 2008-08-19 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 9781605299433 |
It's no secret that children are getting fatter: 17% of this country's youth are overweight or obese, and the number of diabetic children has nearly quadrupled in the past thirty years. Now, to help combat the problem, David Zinczenko, editor-in-chief of Men's Health, and co-author Matt Goulding have created Eat This, Not That! for Kids. This must-have guide for concerned parents offers detailed analysis and nutritional tips on thousands of the most popular food choices for kids. Covering the best and worst options available at the most popular restaurants in the country as well as the healthiest—and most harmful—foods in the supermarket aisles, if kids are eating it, this book is probably analyzing it. Other features include: -Restaurant Report Cards on the best chain restaurants for your kids -Drink This, Not That! for Kids -The 20 Worst Kids' Meals in America -10 "Healthy" Foods that Aren't -The 8 Foods You Should Feed Your Kid Every Day