{"id":827,"date":"2011-10-03T16:28:02","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T21:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/?p=827"},"modified":"2011-11-07T15:05:12","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T20:05:12","slug":"analyzing-pop-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/2011\/10\/03\/analyzing-pop-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Analyzing Pop Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students love to analyze popular culture because it allows them to think about and write about the music, movies, TV shows, or books that they already love (or love to hate!) A fun way to use popular culture in the classroom is to have your students re-examine one of their favorite shows, movies, albums, etc. from a sociological perspective.<\/p>\n<p>We recommend using Rebecca Hayes-Smith&#8217;s book review <a href=\"http:\/\/contexts.org\/articles\/spring-2011\/gender-norms-in-the-twilight-series\/\">&#8220;Gender Norms in the <em>Twilight <\/em>Series&#8221;<\/a> as a guide for your students (from the Spring 2011 issue of <em>Contexts<\/em>). Have your students read and discuss this short review and then go out and write one of their own!<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"img-link\" title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by rhoftonphoto on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/34317036@N00\/3205982652\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3107\/3205982652_0bcfd482e1_m.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"day15 twilight saga\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students love to analyze popular culture because it allows them to think about and write about the music, movies, TV shows, or books that they already love (or love to hate!) A fun way to use popular culture in the classroom is to have your students re-examine one of their favorite shows, movies, albums, etc. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127403],"tags":[55,5007],"class_list":["post-827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-resources","tag-gender","tag-pop-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions\/829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}