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Popular Culture and Consumption
American Idol
Baby Booms: As Seen on TV?
Beauty Myths and Magazines
Blaming Television and Movies is Easy and Wrong (Published in the Los Angeles Times, February 2001)
Can Television Get You Pregnant?
Celebrity and Collective Memory
To Consume or Not to Consume
Consuming Happiness
Death and Halloween
Do Video Games Kill? (Published in Contexts, Winter 2007)
Don't Blame Pop Culture for Teen Misbehavior (Alternet.org)
Global Poverty for Sale
Gender and Popular Culture
Hollywood and Family Values (Published in Contexts, Fall 2008)
Janet Jackson's "Wardrobe Malfunction" and Tensions over Sex (Published in the San Jose Mercury News, February 2004)
New Media Revolution
The Office
Our Toys Are Us (Published in the San Jose Mercury News, December 2003)
Pink Flamingos and Social Class
Popular Culture and Body Image
Racism in Toyland
Reality TV and Wealth
Soap Operas and Postmodern Theory
Social Networking Sites and Privacy
Sociology Meets Air Travel
Sociology of Conspiracy
Television and Teen Pregnancy
The Virtue of Not Buying
Politics
The Celebrity Effect on Elections
Ideology
John McCain's Age
Losing Confidence in Social Institutions
President-Elect Obama: The End of Racism?
Selecting a Running Mate
Social Movements and the Environment
Hillary Clinton
Social Problems
Celebrity Doctors and the Health Care Crisis
Drinking
Drugs in America: Not Just for Celebrities
Everyday Economic Crises
Health and Wealth
Health Care
Is Marriage Under Siege?
Men and Marriage
Murder and Statistics
Peanut Butter and Deviance
Ponzi Schemes
Rumors
Saving Journalism
School Safety
Segregation's Lingering Legacy
Sex and Social Change: The Roman Polanski Case
Suburbanizing Rural America
Unemployment and Socioeconomic Status
Who is Most Likely to be a Crime Victim?
Why Crime Rates Fall
Youth
The Gloucester Pregnancy "Pact"
Juno and Teen Pregnancy
Millenials at Work
Should Kids Work?
The Silence of the Young (about Michael Jackson's Molestation Trial; Published in Newsday, May 2005)
Suicide
Youth Phobia