Breeding Baby Bobos?
Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers, by Alissa Quart.
In this breathless, occasionally raspy treatise about the over-commercialization of adolescence, Alissa Quart piggybacks, Prada knapsack–like, onto a couple of hot trends in the American book business. The first is the rich-kids-say-the-darnedest-things school of journalism, which involves reporters in their 30’s and 40’s visiting the strange and faraway Narnia of affluent teenland, quoting their subjects by first name only while they say "like" and "you know" a lot—as if this unearths particularly raw, authentic societal truths. The second is the rattling crusade against corporate control and globalization......
Must look into this.