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Pricing the Priceless Child

The Changing Social Value of Children
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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 towards 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.

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Viviana A. Zelizer is Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. She is the author of Morals and Markets: The Development in Life Insurance in the United States (Columbia).
Release date NZ
August 28th, 1994
Audiences
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Edition
Revised edition
Pages
296
Dimensions
127x203x16
ISBN-13
9780691034591
Product ID
2405844

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