Karen Sternheimer, Ph.D.
sociologist, author, commentator
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Selected Articles 
 
Karen Sternheimer writes on a variety of topics, mostly focusing on popular culture, youth, and current events.

 

She contributes regularly to the Everyday Sociology Blog.

 

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

Dazed and Consumed: Holiday Shopping

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

Hoarding and the Sociology of Consumption

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 Meets The Bachelor

Sociology of Conspiracy

Television and Teen Pregnancy

Video Games and Research Methods

The Virtue of Not Buying


General Sociology
Anomie
Being a Sociologist
College Degrees and Social Mobility
The Difference between Journalism and Sociology
Downward Mobility
How to Think Like a Sociologist
Infidelity, Tiger Woods, and Emile Durkheim
Lightness and Whiteness
Opportunity
Rain and Class Privilege
Postmodern Theory and the Balloon Boy Hoax
Sociology Majors and the Job Market
Sociology and the Census
Status and Sociology
Thinking Like a Sociologist: Deconstructing Polls