SOCI201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Fredric Wertham, Breakfast Cereal, Cultural Capital

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI201
• Professor: JOEL BEST

Document Summary

The bottom line: childhood is important as the means for making children social. Barbie is pushing 60 and still kept her look. She keeps her look and lifestyle going. Toys are clearly gendered (barbie is clearly for girls) (girls room covered in pink) For both sexes ( boys room covered in blue) Over the years, barbie has come in for lots of criticism ( argument is that she has an unrealistic body) She is the embodiment of male sexual standards. She is slender so clothes can look good. Barbie has been blamed for eating disorders. Barbie"s earliest critics had very different concerns ( she"s strong enough to put your daughter in the grave ) Barbie makes girls less able to achieve the emotional preparation for being a wife and mother that they received from baby dolls. (barbie was not a baby doll)