Karen Sternheimer, Ph.D.
sociologist, author, commentator
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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 and on her new Celebrity Culture 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)

The Bieber Effect: Stardom and Social Mobility

(Published in the Los Angeles Times, May 2011)

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)

Medicalizing Beauty

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

Science Shows No Link Between Games and Violence (Published in the San Diego Union Tribune, December 2010)

Soap Operas and Postmodern Theory

Social Networking Sites and Privacy

Sociology Meets Air Travel

Sociology Meets The Bachelor

Sociology of Conspiracy

Stardom and Social Mobility

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

Crossword Puzzles and the Null Hypothesis
The Difference between Journalism and Sociology
Doing Research While Watching Sports Center
Downward Mobility
The Hidden Nature of Wealth
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

The Sociology of Jargon
Sociology Majors and the Job Market

Sociology Majors Four Years Later
Sociology and the Census
Status and Sociology
Thinking Like a Sociologist: Deconstructing Polls