Professor Goes Gaga: Teaching Lady Gaga and the Sociology of Fame

Autor/in	Deflem, Mathieu
Titel	Professor Goes Gaga: Teaching Lady Gaga and the Sociology of Fame
Quelle	In: American Sociologist, 44 (2013) 2, S.117-131 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0003-1232
DOI	10.1007/s12108-013-9180-y
Schlagwörter	Teaching Experience; Sociology; Reputation; Autobiographies; College Students; Popular Culture; Higher Education; College Faculty; Course Content; Curriculum; College Curriculum; South Carolina + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Soziologie; Autobiography; Autobiografie; Autobiographie; Collegestudent; Popkultur; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Fakultät; Kursprogramm; Curricula; Lehrplan; Rahmenplan
Abstract	This paper presents an account of the conditions and consequences of a university-level teaching experience in the sociology of fame centered on the case of Lady Gaga. When the course "Lady Gaga and the Sociology of the Fame" at the University of South Carolina was announced in the autumn of 2010, it became the number-one Lady Gaga news story, reported and discussed in a wide variety of internet sources and media outlets across the world. The unprecedented attention devoted to the course placed its instructor in an unexpected and unique position to experience various dimensions of contemporary celebrity culture while teaching on that very subject matter. This paper offers a sociological autobiography to discuss this experience as a manifestation of the reflexivity of social knowledge and the interplay between sociology and society. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10