SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cultural Hegemony, Reality Television, Union Busting
5 May 2016
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The extent to which the narrative conventions of reality television echo the most central policymaking paradigm in american politics during the last decade, the neoliberal agenda. Neoliberalism represents a strategy of economic growth developed in opposition to the. Keynesian approaches that shaped u. s. monetary and fiscal policy during the mid- twentieth century, from the new deal to the postwar era of economic expansion. Neoliberal principles are associated with global free trade and the deregulation of industry, the weakening of union labor, a decline in welfare assistance and social service provision, and the privatization of publicly-owned resources. Orleans and other impoverished areas from hurricane katrina. By hiring mostly non-unionized workers, the studios and networks that produce reality television shield themselves from the collective mobilization of organized labor in the entertainment industries. Many seasons of survivor have been shot in third world countries where local authorities are relaxed about labour laws, child protections, health codes and environmental regulations.
