2025-03-05
1 小时 14 分钟Mickey17 yet's Noem Kino.
Oh, hey, it's the new leaf on your what you thought was a dying house plant.
Alie Ward, this is Ologies.
We're gonna get real about sociology.
It's everywhere humans are, including in your television.
And by that I mean probably your laptop in bed or your phone on the toilet.
Now, reality tv, sociology, it's a real thing and it's proof.
We're gonna meet a professor of sociology at Lehigh University who is part of the core faculty of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, who's also an author of the books Dominatrix, Gender Eroticism and Control in the Dungeon and her highly lauded 2022 release, True what Reality TV says About Us.
And she studied creative writing at Princeton and then got a PhD in Sociology from Columbia and has spent her career analyzing and writing about non normative or deviant behaviors and how they shed light on how we relate to each other.
Now, months back, a tweet of hers went viral and it was a snapshot of the list of presentations some of her students were giving.
And among them were the sociology of body image and self worth in the Biggest Loser, the sociology of work and inequality in Below Deck, the sociology of lesbian relationships in the Ultimatum Queer love, the sociology of perfectionism in Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders.
So we will dive into a lot of that and more in a sec.
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I hope I wouldn't do that to myself.