ISBN:
1299951317
,
9781299951310
,
9781137352491
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 229 pages)
Parallel Title:
Print version Consumption of Inequality : Weapons of Mass Distraction
DDC:
305
Keywords:
Consumption (Economics) Social aspects
;
Poverty
;
Popular culture
;
Social stratification
;
Sociology
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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. Karen Bettez Halnon is Associate Professor of Sociology at Pennsylvania State University-Abington, USA.
Abstract:
The fads, fashions, and media in popular consumer culture frequently make recreational and ideological ""fun"" of poverty and lower class living. It is a phenomenon that puts poor whites, poor blacks, women, gays, handicapped people, and other traditional minorities back in ""their place"" by prioritizing self-aggrandizing materialism and individual desires over the collective good and constitutes a form of cultural denial. In this book, Halnon delineates how incarceration, segregation, stigmatization, cultural and social consecration, and carnivalization work in the production and consumption
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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