Pricing the Priceless Child
Pricing the Priceless Child
副标题: The Changing Social Value of Children
ISBN: 9780691034591
出版社: Princeton University Press
出版年: 1994-08-08
页数: 294
定价: USD 29.95
装帧: Paperback
内容简介
In this landmark book, sociologist Viviana Zelizer traces the emergence of the modern child, at once economically 'useless' and emotionally 'priceless,' from the late 1800s to the 1930s. Having established laws removing many children from the marketplace, turn-of-the-century America was discovering new, sentimental criteria to determine a child's monetary worth. The heightened emotional status of children resulted, for example, in the legal justification of children's life insurance policies and in large damages awarded by courts to their parents in the event of death. A vivid account of changing attitudes toward children, this book dramatically illustrates the limits of economic views of life that ignore the pervasive role of social, cultural, emotional, and moral factors in our marketplace world.
作者简介
维维安娜·泽利泽（Viviana A. Zelizer），美国当代杰出的经济社会学家，现任美国经济社会学学会主席，普林斯顿大学知名社会学教授。主要研究领域为经济社会学，关注经济的文化与道德维度。1985年因《给无价的孩子定价》一书而获得美国社会学界的至高荣誉C.Wright Mill奖。
代表作：《道德与市场——美国人寿保险的发展》、《给无价的孩子定价——变迁中的儿童社会价值》、《金钱的社会意义》、《亲密关系中的买卖》。