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Science 26 June 2009:
Vol. 324. no. 5935, p. 1647
DOI: 10.1126/science.1173386
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Sociology:

Buying So Children Belong

Sandra L. Hofferth

Longing and Belonging Parents, Children, and Consumer Culture by Allison J. Pugh University of California Press, Berkeley, 2009. 319 pp. $55, £37.95. ISBN 9780520258433. Paper, $21.95, £14.95. ISBN 9780520258440.

Exploring what buying means to children and their parents, Pugh discusses why parents participate in the commercialization of childhood even as they decry it.

The reviewer is at the Department of Family Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.

E-mail: hofferth{at}umd.edu

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