Marginal Conventions: Popular Culture, Mass Media and Social Deviance - University of Wisconsin Press - Books - The Popular Press - 9780879724900 - January 31, 1990
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Marginal Conventions: Popular Culture, Mass Media and Social Deviance

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Marginal Conventions contains twelve essays by social scientists centering around the general connections between popular culture and deviant behavior. In addition to speaking to the commonsensical view that exposure to representations of misbehavior makes people misbehave, this collection focuses on media presentations of crime, violence, and villainy; the utility of deviance theme for societal elites; and the "taste publics" centered around disreputable products and rituals."


Marc Notes: Avail. in cloth at $35.95 to Hypnosis & Psychotherapy ... 1988. Publisher Marketing: Marginal Conventions contains twelve essays by social scientists centering around the general connections between popular culture and deviant behavior. In addition to speaking to the commonsensical view that exposure to representations of misbehavior makes people misbehave, this collection focuses on media presentations of crime, violence, and villainy; the utility of deviance theme for societal elites; and the taste publics centered around disreputable products and rituals.

Contributor Bio:  Sanders, Clinton R Sanders is Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut.

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Released January 31, 1990
ISBN13 9780879724900
Publishers The Popular Press
Pages 192
Dimensions 152 × 228 × 11 mm   ·   266 g

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