Infantilization Culture

Today was a day centered around the culture of treating adults like children and inconsistencies between expressed and practiced values. Our word of the day is a relatively new word to our lexicon, infantilization, and it has been used by Benjamin Barber to describe how our culture will treat adults like children and as a result adults may make decisions like children...particularly in the field of consumer purchasing, but with far ranging effects. An idea for a blog is infantilization...can you find real examples of it in your everyday world? If so, what effect does this have on an individual and how they behave in micro and macro sociological environments? Do you think infantilization is consistent, inconsistent, or both with US macro cultural values?

Here is the remainder of the video from class today. file:///Users/bsmith/Desktop/barber.flv

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