Routledge Handbook of Cultural Sociology

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Laura Grindstaff is Professor of Sociology at the University of California Davis and a faculty affiliate in Gender Studies Performance Studies and Cultural Studies. Her research and teaching focus on the cultural dimensions of sex/gender race and class inequality with a particular emphasis on American media and popular culture. She is the author of The Money Shot: Trash Class and the Making of TV Talk Shows as well as numerous articles and essays on aspects of popular culture ranging from sports and cheerleading to reality TV and social media.Ming-Cheng M. Lo is Professor of Sociology at the University of California Davis. Lo's research focuses on culture illness experiences and civic engagement. She is the author of Doctors within Borders: Profession Ethnicity and Modernity in Colonial Taiwan (University of California Press 2002; Japanese edition 2014). A recent series of articles addresses the roles of cultural capital and non-dominant cultural resources in health healthcare and environmental activism.John R. Hall is Research Professor of Sociology at the University of California Santa Cruz and Davis. His published works include Apocalypse: From Antiquity to the Empire of Modernity (Polity 2009) Visual Worlds (Routledge 2005 with co-editors) Sociology on Culture (Routledge 2003 with co-authors) and Cultures of Inquiry (Cambridge University Press 1999).