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.
By:
K. Halnon Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 140mm,
Spine: 14mm
Weight: 4.041kg ISBN:9781137352484 ISBN 10: 1137352485 Pages: 229 Publication Date:19 September 2013 Audience:
College/higher education
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Further / Higher Education
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
Karen Bettez Halnon is Associate Professor of Sociology at Pennsylvania State University-Abington, USA.
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