3rd Edition
Celebrity Culture and the American Dream Stardom and Social Mobility
1 The American Dream: Celebrity, Class, and Social Mobility; 2 Beyond Subsistence: The Rise of the Middle Class in the Twentieth Century; 3 Prosperity and Wealth Arrive: Boom Times and Women’s Suffrage in the 1920s; 4 Pull Yourself Up by Your Bootstraps: Personal Failure and the Great Depression; 5 We’re All in This Together: Collectivism and World War II; 6 Suburban Utopia: The Postwar Middle-Class Fantasy; 7 Is That All There Is? Challenging the Suburban Fantasy in the Sixties and Seventies; 8 Massive Wealth as Moral Reward: The Reagan Revolution and Individualism; 9 Success Just for Being You: Opportunity in the Social Media Era
Biography
Karen Sternheimer is a sociologist at the University of Southern California, where she is a distinguished fellow at the USC Center for Excellence in Teaching. She is also the author of Connecting Social Problems and Popular Culture (Routledge, 2013), Pop Culture Panics (Routledge, 2015), and is the editor and lead writer for everydaysociologyblog.com. She has provided commentary for NPR, CNN, MSNBC, The History Channel, and Fox News.
