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- Title
From Labeling Possessions to Possessing Labels: Ridicule and Socialization among Adolescents.
- Authors
Wooten, David B.
- Abstract
This research explores ridicule as a mechanism through which adolescents exchange information about consumption norms and values. The author finds that adolescents use ridicule to ostracize, haze, or admonish peers who violate consumption norms. Targets and observers learn stereotypes about avoidance-groups, consumption norms of aspirational groups, the use of possessions to communicate social linkages and achieve acceptance goals, and social consequences of nonconformity. As a result, many targets and observers of ridicule alter their perceptions, acquisition, use, and disposition of objects in order to avoid unwanted attention.
- Subjects
RIDICULE; TEENAGERS; CONSUMPTION (Economics); CONFORMITY; SOCIAL acceptance; INTEREST (Psychology); STEREOTYPES; SOCIAL psychology; SOCIAL impact; VALUES (Ethics)
- Publication
Journal of Consumer Research, 2006, Vol 33, Issue 2, p188
- ISSN
0093-5301
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1086/506300