Aspiring, Consuming, Becoming: Youth Identity in a Culture of Consumption

Autor/inn/en	Deutsch, Nancy L.; Theodorou, Eleni
Titel	Aspiring, Consuming, Becoming: Youth Identity in a Culture of Consumption
Quelle	In: Youth & Society, 42 (2010) 2, S.229-254 (26 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0044-118X
DOI	10.1177/0044118X09351279
Schlagwörter	Adolescents; Self Concept; Gender Differences; Cultural Influences; Urban Youth; Sex Role; Aspiration; Social Class; Individual Power; Responsibility + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Selbstkonzept; Geschlechterkonflikt; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Urban area; Urban areas; Youth; Stadtregion; Stadt; Geschlechterrolle; Streben; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Eigeninitiative; Verantwortungsübernahme; Zuständigkeit
Abstract	This article focuses on how consumerism, as a social ideology, and consumption, as an individual activity, are used by adolescents to mark and mask differences in the process of identity construction. Data are drawn from an ethnographic study of urban youth. The act of consuming for the adolescents in this study forms an integral part of their identity performance across the intersectionality of the self 's experience of gender, race, and class. For females in this study, consumption is linked to gender performances based on the maintenance of an attractive and fashionable appearance as dictated by social perceptions of femininity. Girls' future aspirations are indirectly associated to consumptive acts through the ambition for financial emancipation. Consuming, or "aspiring" to consuming, for males in this study facilitates the achievement of a morality realized through the fulfillment of male responsibility toward the traditionally perceived "dependent" members of the family: mother, wife, and children. (Contains 7 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10