Girl Gossip Shopping

Celebrity Culture and the American Dream: Stardom and Social Mobility

"… a good book to add to an introduction to sociology course if you want to give your students a good sense of how sociology analyzes culture and media….There is a lot in the book and Sternheimer does a good job of weaving together hard sociological data on stratification, inequalities, wage and labor trends to the narrative promoted by the celebrity culture along with changes in the structure and power relations in the industry itself. The book is an easy read with a lot of illustrations fr

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