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ContentsAcknowledgments 000PART ONE The Birth of Consumers1 Capitalism Triumphant and the Infantilist Ethos 0002 From Protestantism to Puerility 000PART TWO The Eclipse of Citizens3 Infantilizing Consumers: The Coming of Kidults 0004 Privatizing Citizens: The Making of Civic Schizophrenia 0005 Branding Identities: The Loss of Meaning 0006 Totalizing Society: The End of Diversity 000PART THREE The Fate of Citizens7 Resisting Consumerism: Can Capitalism Cure Itself? 0008 Overcoming Civic Schizophrenia: Restoring Citizenship in a World of Interdependence 000Notes 000Index 000
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Consumption (Economics) -- United States.
Consumer behavior -- United States.
Child consumers -- United States.
Capitalism -- United States.
Materialism -- United States -- Social aspects.
Mass society.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-.