The inequities of class, gender, and physical capacity gain their expression in moments of anxiety over how to eliminate one’s waste. This is one truth …
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The larger trend that includes Akeelah and the Bee has catapulted the once esoteric activity of spelling competitions into commercial pop culture. Cable television and …
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by Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson and Gary Alan Fine
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Winter 2008
Ratatouille is a treasure trove for sociologists because it lays out an organization with its attendant work roles and then shows how it functions in …
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Several elements combined to make the California fires a mega story. And most prominent among the media attention were stories of firefighters that, for the …
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Every once in a while a comedy manages to transcend cultural boundaries. Today, the most successful of the few American television comedies that work outside …
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