The Consumption of Inequality [electronic resource] : Weapons of Mass Distraction /
Halnon, K.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Culture.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Poverty.
Ethnology.
Sociology.
Sociology of Culture.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Development Aid.
Social Anthropology.
Cultural Anthropology.
Gender Studies.