Doctoral Dissertation Research - Caring Consumption: Negotiated Meanings of Childrearing and the Market

博士论文研究——关爱消费：育儿与市场的协商意义

• 批准号: 0221499
• 负责人: Arlie Hochschild
• 金额: $ 0.75万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-08-01 至 2004-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0221499&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Caring; Consumption

This dissertation investigates the meaning of consumption for parents seeking the "good care" of their children. The research focuses on the emotional processes by which these consumers decide just what is good care and what kinds of "things" are part of that care. Textual analysis of toy catalogs will be combined with ethnographic fieldwork on shopping trips and interviews with parents about consumption and raising children. These multiple methods (conversations about buying, observations of spending, and considerations of selling) seek to explain how people make sense of the convergence of consumption, class, and care in our contemporary culture.

该论文调查了寻求孩子“良好照顾”的父母的消费含义。 该研究的重点是这些消费者决定什么是好的护理以及哪些“事物”是该护理的一部分。 玩具目录的文本分析将与购物旅行中的民族志实地调查结合在一起，并与父母进行有关消费和抚养孩子的访谈。 这些多种方法（有关购买的对话，对支出的观察以及销售考虑的考虑）试图解释人们如何在我们当代文化中了解消费，阶级和关怀的融合。