"The challenges of teaching a successful introductory sociology course today demand materials from a publisher very different from the norm. Texts that are organized the way the discipline structures itself intellectually no longer connect with the majority of student learners. This is not an issue of pandering to students or otherwise seeking the lowest common denominator. On the contrary, it is a question of again making the practice o ..."
Cultural Spaces Ser.(2nd Edition) Foodies : Democracy and Distinction in the Gourmet Foodscape by Josee Johnston, ShyonBaumann Hardcover, 276 Pages, Published 2014 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-138-01511-1, ISBN: 1-138-01511-3
"This important cultural analysis tells two stories about food. The first depicts good food as democratic. Foodies frequent 'hole in the wall' ethnic eateries, appreciate the pie found in working-class truck stops, and reject the snobbery of fancy French restaurants with formal table service. The second story describes how food operates as a source of status and distinction for economic and cultural elites, in ..."
Hollywood Highbrow From Entertainment to Art (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology) by ShyonBaumann Hardcover, 248 Pages, Published 2007 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-12527-5, ISBN: 0-691-12527-9
"Today's moviegoers and critics generally consider some Hollywood products--even some blockbusters--to be legitimate works of art. But during the first half century of motion pictures very few Americans would have thought to call an American movie "art." Up through the 1950s, American movies were regarded as a form of popular, even lower-class, entertainment. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, viewers were regularly judging Hollywood films ..."
"The challenges of teaching a successful introductory sociology course today demand materials from a publisher very different from the norm. Texts that are organized the way the discipline structures itself intellectually no longer connect with the majority of student learners. This is not an issue of pandering to students or otherwise seeking the lowest common denominator. On the contrary, it is a question of again making the practice o ..."
Foodies(2nd Edition) Democracy and Distinction in the Gourmet Foodscape (Cultural Spaces) by Josee Johnston, ShyonBaumann Paperback, 276 Pages, Published 2015 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-138-01512-8, ISBN: 1-138-01512-1
"This important cultural analysis tells two stories about food. The first depicts good food as democratic. Foodies frequent 'hole in the wall' ethnic eateries, appreciate the pie found in working-class truck stops, and reject the snobbery of fancy French restaurants with formal table service. The second story describes how food operates as a source of status and distinction for economic and cultural elites, in ..."
"The intersections of aging, media, and culture are under-explored given trends in population aging, rapid increases in the mediation of everyday life, and the growing cultural significance of media consumption at the global level. This book brings together an international collection of critical scholars, both well-established and up-and-coming, from the various academic disciplines that share a common interest in the future study of ag ..."
Foodies(1st Edition) Democracy and Distinction in the Gourmet Foodscape (Cultural Spaces) by ShyonBaumann, Josee Johnston, Josã E. Johnston Paperback, 280 Pages, Published 2010 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-96537-8, ISBN: 0-415-96537-3
"This important new cultural analysis tells two stories about food. The first depicts good food as democratic. Foodies frequent 'hole in the wall' ethnic eateries, appreciate the pie found in working-class truck stops, and reject the snobbery of fancy French restaurants with formal table service. The second story describes how food operates as a source of status and distinction for economic and cultural elites ..."
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LT U R A L S O C I O L O G Y Origins of Democratic Culture: Printing, Petitions,
and the Public Sphere in Early-Modern England by David Zaret Bearing Witness:
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"Indeed, the narrative of sports as a way out of poverty is a powerful myth that
reinforces the ideology of meritocracy (discussed in chapter 3)—the belief that we
live in a fair society where success is awarded on the basis of individual effort
and talent. In Game On: The All American Race to Make Champions of our
Children, Tom Farrey (2008) visits fields, courts, and rinks across the United
States to investigate the intense effort ..."
Cultural Spaces Ser. Foodies : Democracy and Distinction in the Gourmet Foodscape by Josee Johnston, ShyonBaumann 270 Pages, Published 2014 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-317-74500-6, ISBN: 1-317-74500-0
"New York: International Publishers. Granastein, Lisa. 1999. ®Galloping Gourmet.
̄ Mediaweek, August9,50. Grant,David,Tom Keenoy, and Clifford Oswick. 1998.
®Organizational Discourse: Of Diversity, Dichotomy and Multi-Disciplinarity. ̄ Pp
. 1¥14 in Discourse and Organization, edited by David Grant, Tom Keenoy and
Clifford Oswick. London: Sage Publications. Gray, Steven. 2006. ®Boss Talk:
Natural Competitor; How Whole Foods CEO Mackey ..."
"Preface for instructors -- Preface for students -- Acknowledgements -- A day in the life of your jeans : using our stuff to discover sociology -- Surviving (and thriving) in consumer culture -- You are what you eat: culture, norms and ..."
"In Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight,
Timothy Pachirat (2011) helps us see how a hamburger starts out as an animal.
Working as an employee in a slaughterhouse, Pachirat carried out an
ethnography (see the Sociologists in Action textbox) of industrial slaughterhouse
labor¦a key component in the commodity chain of fast-food production. A PhD
student at the time of his research, Pachirat describe ..."
Cultural Spaces Ser. Democracy and Distinction in the Gourmet Foodscape by ShyonBaumann, Josee Johnston Hardcover, 258 Pages, Published 2009 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-203-86864-5, ISBN: 0-203-86864-1
"Named “TV's kitchen queen” (Hamm and Tauber 2007), Rachael Ray explicitly
flaunts her lack of culinary training, stating, “Not only am I not ... Despite her lack
of professional credentials, the animated host of 30 Minute Meals boasts “four hit
Food Network shows, ... Ray's 2005 cookbook Rachael Ray 365 was the highest
selling non - fiction paperback for that year, with annual sales ... The true food
hobbyist thus is always looking ..."
Foodies Democracy and Distinction in the Gourmet Foodscape by Josee Johnston, ShyonBaumann Digital, 280 Pages, Published 2009 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-135-24834-5, ISBN: 1-135-24834-6
"This important new cultural analysis tells two stories about food. The first depicts good food as democratic. Foodies frequent 'hole in the wall' ethnic eateries, appreciate the pie found in working-class truck stops, and reject the snobbery of fancy French restaurants with formal table service. The second story describes how food operates as a source of status and distinction for economic and cultural elites, indirectly maintaining and ..."
Foodies(1st Edition) Democracy and Distinction in the Gourmet Foodscape (Cultural Spaces) by Shyon. Johnston Baumann, Josee Johnston Hardcover, 280 Pages, Published 2009 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-96538-5, ISBN: 0-415-96538-1
"The intersections of aging, media, and culture are under-explored given trends in population aging, rapid increases in the mediation of everyday life, and the growing cultural significance of media consumption at the global level. This book brings together an international collection of critical scholars, both well-established and up-and-coming, from the various academic disciplines that share a common interest in the future study of ag ..."
Foodies Democracy and Distinction in the Gourmet Foodscape by Josee Johnston, ShyonBaumann Ebook, 280 Pages, Published 2009 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-135-24838-3, ISBN: 1-135-24838-9
"Democracy and Distinction in the Gourmet Foodscape Josee Johnston, Shyon
Baumann. drawn around “good” or “worthy” food. Which political goals are prior-
itized when these ... While consumerism exerts a hege- monic presence on the
foodscape, shaping everyday elements of foodie common sense, critical
dimensions of citizenship can also be observed in foodie culture, as we shall see
below. The terms consumerism and citizenship are conc ..."
Foodies Democracy and Distinction in the Gourmet Foodscape by Josee Johnston, ShyonBaumann Ebook, 280 Pages, Published 2009 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-135-24837-6, ISBN: 1-135-24837-0
"Democracy and Distinction in the Gourmet Foodscape Josee Johnston, Shyon
Baumann ... advertisers seekingto connect withits affluent readership.26The
selfdescribed “Magazine of Good Living” shares “the pleasures of dining,
entertaining ... Manycredit Gourmet's recentsuccesses tocurrentEditor in Chief,
Ruth Reichl,who left her postas New YorkTimes restaurantcriticin1999to
taketheleadat Gourmet."