Consumption of Inequality - Weapons of Mass Distraction

Zusatztext To come. Informationen zum Autor Karen Bettez Halnon is Associate Professor of Sociology at Pennsylvania State University-Abington, USA. Klappentext The fads! fashions! and media in popular consumer culture frequently make recreational and ideological "fun" of poverty and lower class living. In this book! Halnon delineates how incarceration! segregation! stigmatization! cultural and social consecration! and carnivalization work in the production and consumption of inequality. Zusammenfassung The fads, fashions, and media in popular consumer culture frequently make recreational and ideological "fun" of poverty and lower class living. In this book, Halnon delineates how incarceration, segregation, stigmatization, cultural and social consecration, and carnivalization work in the production and consumption of inequality. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Weapons of Mass Distraction 1. Financial Crisis, Ideology, and Alienation 2. Critiquing Postmodernist Zeitgeist 3. Prison Chic 4. Black Ghetto Cool 5. White Trash Stigma 6. Super Trash Spectacles 7. Blue Collar Vogue 8. Redneck and Blue Collar Comedy Conclusion: Tourists, Victims, and Deadening Others

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Weapons of Mass Distraction 1. Financial Crisis, Ideology, and Alienation 2. Critiquing Postmodernist Zeitgeist 3. Prison Chic 4. Black Ghetto Cool 5. White Trash Stigma 6. Super Trash Spectacles 7. Blue Collar Vogue 8. Redneck and Blue Collar Comedy Conclusion: Tourists, Victims, and Deadening Others

Bericht

To come.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: K Halnon, K. Halnon, Karen Bettez Halnon
• Verlag: Palgrave UK
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.11.2015
• EAN: 9781349469246
• ISBN: 978-1-349-46924-6
• Seiten: 239
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Naturwissenschaften allgemein; Sachbuch > Politik, Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft > Politik; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien; B, Gender Studies, Culture, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Sociology of Culture, Cultural Anthropology, Society & culture: general, Ethnology, Poverty, Social & cultural anthropology, Development Aid, Media and Communication, Gender studies, gender groups, Social Anthropology, Sociocultural Anthropology, Development Studies, Culture—Study and teaching, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, culture;Nation;poverty;Segregation;weapons