Learning from Other Writers: Celebrity Relationships: Why Do We Care?

Celebrity Relationships: Why Do We Care?

Karen Sternheimer

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Karen Sternheimer is a professor of sociology at the University of Southern California. Her book, Celebrity Culture and the American Dream: Stardom and Social Mobility (2011), explores how celebrity culture reflects society as a whole. In this video, Sternheimer discusses how our obsession with celebrities’ relationships reveals our anxieties about marriage. Click the image below to watch the video, and then respond to the questions that follow.

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Karen Sternheimer

Source: http://www.ncsociology.org/sociationtoday/v101/dead.htm

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