{"id":852,"date":"2012-01-29T16:06:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T16:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/&#038;p=852"},"modified":"2015-10-13T19:47:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T19:47:00","slug":"oprah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/2012\/01\/29\/oprah\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to Oprah, Social Juggernaut"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='citation'>\n    <span class='authors'>Eva Illouz, <\/span><span class='link'><a href=\"http:\/\/cup.columbia.edu\/book\/978-0-231-11812-5\/oprah-winfrey-and-the-glamour-of-misery\"><em>Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery: An Essay on Popular Culture<\/em>,<\/a><\/span><span class='year'> 2003<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Prof. Penny Edgell at the U of M uses this insightful book in her sociology of culture class because the author\u00a0takes on the talk show&#8217;s success as part of a culture of pain and suffering (and the power to transcend that suffering and victimization). Along the way, Illouz draws on many social scientific theories to explore why Oprah and her eponymous show were so popular for so long. Appropriate reading for Ms. Winfrey&#8217;s birthday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eva Illouz, Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery: An Essay on Popular Culture, 2003 Prof. Penny Edgell at the U of M uses this insightful book in her sociology of culture class because the author\u00a0takes on the talk show&#8217;s success as part of a culture of pain and suffering (and the power to transcend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[14907],"class_list":["post-852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-sociology-of-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8361,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions\/8361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}