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Love it or hate it, popular culture permeates every aspect of contemporary society. In this accessibly written introduction to the sociology of popular culture, Dustin Kidd provides the tools to think critically about the cultural soup served daily by film, television, music, print media, and the internet. Utilizing each chapter to present core topical and timely examples, Kidd highlights the tension between inclusion and individuality that lies beneath mass media and commercial culture, using this tension as a point of entry to an otherwise expansive topic. He systematically considers several dimensions of identityrace, class, gender, sexuality, disabilityto provide a broad overview of the field that encompasses classical and contemporary theory, original data, topical and timely examples, and a strong pedagogical focus on methods. __Pop Culture Freaks__ encourages students to develop further research questions and projects from the material. Both quantitative and qualitative analyses are brought to bear in Kidd’s examination of the labor force for cultural production, the representations of identity in cultural objects, and the surprising differences in how various audiences c

Who reads Pop Culture Freaks : Identity, Mass Media, and Society?

Author

Dustin Kidd

Publisher

Westview Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780429961830

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Psychology, Social Science

Rating

3.73 / 5 (37 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14