Karen Bettez Halnon
Biographic Data
| ID | 4178935 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Bettez Halnon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen Bettez |
| FAMILY NAME | Halnon |
| SIGNATURE | HALNON K B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Popular Culture Forms: Punk Music
Punk,” a slang word meaning rotten or worthless, is the name for a rock music scene that has its roots in New York City in the mid‐1970s with bands such as the Ramones, Blondie, and Talking Heads. Other early influences and proto‐punk bands included Wayne County, New York Dolls, MC5, the Velvet Underground, and Iggy Pop and the Stooges. Punk was a subcultural style that privileged anger, alienation, violence, and anarchy. Among punk's many meanin…
Popular Culture Forms: Culture and Icons
Sociologists have addressed a wide range of topics under the heading of popular culture. In fact, there are far too many to cover adequately in this encyclopedia. Thus, a decision was made to give at least a sense of this literature by sampling some of the key topics examined by sociologists and offering an indication of the way in which they have been covered. A variety of forms of popular culture are considered: the beach, hip‐hop, jazz, P2P, r…
Tattoos
The word tattoo derives from the Tahitian word tatau , which means to mark something. Tattooing, the practice of inserting colored materials beneath the skin, has been traced across a vast historical, cultural, and geographic plain, ranging from Australian Aborigines ca. 60,000 bce and Nubian, predynastic, and eleventh‐dynasty Egypt to Thracian Greek aristocracy, 400 bce, and fifth‐century Roman Gallic warriors (Camphausen 1997
Implosion
French postmodernist critic Jean Baudrillard's theory of implosion is one of social entropy, wherein he asserts that a consumer age of information, media, and mass media has ushered in an accelerated and coercive hyperproduction of meaning and information to the “irrational” and “terroristic” extent that all meaning, knowledge, and subjectivity, and the “social” itself, are neutralized and ultimately collapse. All that is left, he says, is an imp…
Popular Culture Forms: Hip‐Hop
Hip‐hop originated in 1974 as a local subculture in the South Bronx, New York City with Kingston, Jamaica‐born Clive Campell, the founding “Father of Hip‐Hop
Muscles, Motorcycles and Tattoos: Gentrification in a new frontier
Elaborating on previous work on Poor Chic, this article opens new empirical terrain for gentrification theory by demonstrating how gentrification processes are applicable to ‘symbolic neighborhoods’ in popular culture. Challenging postmodernist-spirited lifestyle consumption theory that asserts the breakdown of stratification systems through consumer habits, the article delineates how three important ‘symbolic neighborhoods of lower class masculi…
Heavy Metal Carnival and Dis-alienation: The Politics of Grotesque Realism
Based on four years of concert fieldwork and extensive music media analysis (including bands such as Cradle of Filth, GWAR, Insane Clown Posse, Marilyn Manson, and Slipknot), this article shows how heavy metal music and its carnival culture express a dis-alienating politics of resistance. Applying Bakhtin's multifaceted conceptualization of the carnival-grotesque, the author explains how grotesque realism in metal music and performances constitut…
Alienation Incorporated: F*** the Mainstream Music' in the Mainstream
This article is about one of the most popular and profitable music styles in the United States and internationally, one that gives a loud, hostile and otherwise alienated 'finger' to the 'mainstream'. Drawing on four years of concert fieldwork and extensive music media analysis, the author illustrates how self-labeled 'white trash', 'rejects', 'failures' and 'freaks' delineate their alienation experiences in lyrics and stage performances, and how…
Inside Shock Music Carnival: Spectacle as Contested Terrain
This paper is based on a four-year concert fieldwork study of some of the most transgressive, shocking, and otherwise explicitly carnivalesque bands increasingly making it into the mainstream (e.g., Eminem, Marilyn Manson, Limp Bizkit, Slipknot, Cradle of Filth, Insane Clown Posse, GWAR, and Mindless Self Indulgence). The dis-alienating attractions of this music for an increasingly heterogeneous fan base are described in rich ethnographic detail,…
Fight Club
Poor Chic: The Rational Consumption of Poverty
A discussion of Poor Chic, or an array of fads and fashions in popular culture that make recreational or stylish 'fun' of poverty, or of traditional symbols of working class and underclass statuses, challenges the reductionism of the view that 'lifestyle' consumption has displaced consumption as a means of expressing social status (e.g. race, class, and gender). It is argued that the multiplicity of symbols involved in Poor Chic collectively repr…
The Social Psychology of Stigma
Dovidio, Major, Crocker, Stigma: Introduction and Overview. Part 1: The Perceiver. Neuberg,D.M Smith, Asher, Why People Stigmatize: Toward a Biocultural Framework. Stangor, Crandall, Threat and the Social Construction of Stigma. Biernat, Dovidio, Stigma and Stereotypes. Crandall, Ideology and Lay Theories of Stigma: The Justification of Stigmatization. Part 2: The Stigmatized. Crocker, Quinn, Social Stigma and the Self: Meanings, Situations, and …
The Sociology of Doing Nothing: A Model "Adopt a Stigma in a Public Place" Exercise
The doing nothing assignment is offered as a methodologically detailed, theoretically grounded, and easily implemented exercise for teaching students about stigma. It also provides students with the opportunity to do sociology and to learn about everyday interpretations of social life. This paper provides a discussion of the advantages of this stigma simulation, safety issues related to the exercise, and methods teachers can use to assess student…
Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City
Where the rule of law does not apply, survival depends on intimate knowledge of this powerful, inflexible etiquette that colors every human transaction. Inner-city black America often seems to be defined by random, senseless street violence. In fact, although violence is a salient feature of inner-city communities, its use is far from random; it is regulated through an informal but well-known code of the street. How you dress, how you talk, wheth…
Culture and Emotion in Christmas: The Elementary Forms of the Spiritual Life
I think it's the most wonderful time of the year and the most difficult time of the year. I think it is the worst of holidays and I think it's the best of holidays. I really do. I think just because of all the depression and the mental illness and watching people react to it and the fact that people are alone and it's supposed to be this great get‐together‐bonding‐experience. Supposedly here is the light of the world that's gonna make everything …
The Social Psychology of Stigma
Dovidio, Major, Crocker, Stigma: Introduction and Overview. Part 1: The Perceiver. Neuberg,D.M Smith, Asher, Why People Stigmatize: Toward a Biocultural Framework. Stangor, Crandall, Threat and the Social Construction of Stigma. Biernat, Dovidio, Stigma and Stereotypes. Crandall, Ideology and Lay Theories of Stigma: The Justification of Stigmatization. Part 2: The Stigmatized. Crocker, Quinn, Social Stigma and the Self: Meanings, Situations, and …
Inside Shock Music Carnival: Spectacle as Contested Terrain
This paper is based on a four-year concert fieldwork study of some of the most transgressive, shocking, and otherwise explicitly carnivalesque bands increasingly making it into the mainstream (e.g., Eminem, Marilyn Manson, Limp Bizkit, Slipknot, Cradle of Filth, Insane Clown Posse, GWAR, and Mindless Self Indulgence). The dis-alienating attractions of this music for an increasingly heterogeneous fan base are described in rich ethnographic detail,…
Heavy Metal Carnival and Dis-alienation: The Politics of Grotesque Realism
Based on four years of concert fieldwork and extensive music media analysis (including bands such as Cradle of Filth, GWAR, Insane Clown Posse, Marilyn Manson, and Slipknot), this article shows how heavy metal music and its carnival culture express a dis-alienating politics of resistance. Applying Bakhtin's multifaceted conceptualization of the carnival-grotesque, the author explains how grotesque realism in metal music and performances constitut…
Poor Chic: The Rational Consumption of Poverty
A discussion of Poor Chic, or an array of fads and fashions in popular culture that make recreational or stylish 'fun' of poverty, or of traditional symbols of working class and underclass statuses, challenges the reductionism of the view that 'lifestyle' consumption has displaced consumption as a means of expressing social status (e.g. race, class, and gender). It is argued that the multiplicity of symbols involved in Poor Chic collectively repr…
Muscles, Motorcycles and Tattoos: Gentrification in a new frontier
Elaborating on previous work on Poor Chic, this article opens new empirical terrain for gentrification theory by demonstrating how gentrification processes are applicable to ‘symbolic neighborhoods’ in popular culture. Challenging postmodernist-spirited lifestyle consumption theory that asserts the breakdown of stratification systems through consumer habits, the article delineates how three important ‘symbolic neighborhoods of lower class masculi…
The Sociology of Doing Nothing: A Model "Adopt a Stigma in a Public Place" Exercise
The doing nothing assignment is offered as a methodologically detailed, theoretically grounded, and easily implemented exercise for teaching students about stigma. It also provides students with the opportunity to do sociology and to learn about everyday interpretations of social life. This paper provides a discussion of the advantages of this stigma simulation, safety issues related to the exercise, and methods teachers can use to assess student…
Alienation Incorporated: F*** the Mainstream Music' in the Mainstream
This article is about one of the most popular and profitable music styles in the United States and internationally, one that gives a loud, hostile and otherwise alienated 'finger' to the 'mainstream'. Drawing on four years of concert fieldwork and extensive music media analysis, the author illustrates how self-labeled 'white trash', 'rejects', 'failures' and 'freaks' delineate their alienation experiences in lyrics and stage performances, and how…
Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City
Where the rule of law does not apply, survival depends on intimate knowledge of this powerful, inflexible etiquette that colors every human transaction. Inner-city black America often seems to be defined by random, senseless street violence. In fact, although violence is a salient feature of inner-city communities, its use is far from random; it is regulated through an informal but well-known code of the street. How you dress, how you talk, wheth…
Culture and Emotion in Christmas: The Elementary Forms of the Spiritual Life
I think it's the most wonderful time of the year and the most difficult time of the year. I think it is the worst of holidays and I think it's the best of holidays. I really do. I think just because of all the depression and the mental illness and watching people react to it and the fact that people are alone and it's supposed to be this great get‐together‐bonding‐experience. Supposedly here is the light of the world that's gonna make everything …
Culture and Emotion in Christmas: The Elementary Forms of the Spiritual Life
I think it's the most wonderful time of the year and the most difficult time of the year. I think it is the worst of holidays and I think it's the best of holidays. I really do. I think just because of all the depression and the mental illness and watching people react to it and the fact that people are alone and it's supposed to be this great get‐together‐bonding‐experience. Supposedly here is the light of the world that's gonna make everything …
The Social Psychology of Stigma
Dovidio, Major, Crocker, Stigma: Introduction and Overview. Part 1: The Perceiver. Neuberg,D.M Smith, Asher, Why People Stigmatize: Toward a Biocultural Framework. Stangor, Crandall, Threat and the Social Construction of Stigma. Biernat, Dovidio, Stigma and Stereotypes. Crandall, Ideology and Lay Theories of Stigma: The Justification of Stigmatization. Part 2: The Stigmatized. Crocker, Quinn, Social Stigma and the Self: Meanings, Situations, and …
The Sociology of Doing Nothing: A Model "Adopt a Stigma in a Public Place" Exercise
The doing nothing assignment is offered as a methodologically detailed, theoretically grounded, and easily implemented exercise for teaching students about stigma. It also provides students with the opportunity to do sociology and to learn about everyday interpretations of social life. This paper provides a discussion of the advantages of this stigma simulation, safety issues related to the exercise, and methods teachers can use to assess student…
Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City
Where the rule of law does not apply, survival depends on intimate knowledge of this powerful, inflexible etiquette that colors every human transaction. Inner-city black America often seems to be defined by random, senseless street violence. In fact, although violence is a salient feature of inner-city communities, its use is far from random; it is regulated through an informal but well-known code of the street. How you dress, how you talk, wheth…
Fight Club
Poor Chic: The Rational Consumption of Poverty
A discussion of Poor Chic, or an array of fads and fashions in popular culture that make recreational or stylish 'fun' of poverty, or of traditional symbols of working class and underclass statuses, challenges the reductionism of the view that 'lifestyle' consumption has displaced consumption as a means of expressing social status (e.g. race, class, and gender). It is argued that the multiplicity of symbols involved in Poor Chic collectively repr…
Inside Shock Music Carnival: Spectacle as Contested Terrain
This paper is based on a four-year concert fieldwork study of some of the most transgressive, shocking, and otherwise explicitly carnivalesque bands increasingly making it into the mainstream (e.g., Eminem, Marilyn Manson, Limp Bizkit, Slipknot, Cradle of Filth, Insane Clown Posse, GWAR, and Mindless Self Indulgence). The dis-alienating attractions of this music for an increasingly heterogeneous fan base are described in rich ethnographic detail,…
Alienation Incorporated: F*** the Mainstream Music' in the Mainstream
This article is about one of the most popular and profitable music styles in the United States and internationally, one that gives a loud, hostile and otherwise alienated 'finger' to the 'mainstream'. Drawing on four years of concert fieldwork and extensive music media analysis, the author illustrates how self-labeled 'white trash', 'rejects', 'failures' and 'freaks' delineate their alienation experiences in lyrics and stage performances, and how…
Muscles, Motorcycles and Tattoos: Gentrification in a new frontier
Elaborating on previous work on Poor Chic, this article opens new empirical terrain for gentrification theory by demonstrating how gentrification processes are applicable to ‘symbolic neighborhoods’ in popular culture. Challenging postmodernist-spirited lifestyle consumption theory that asserts the breakdown of stratification systems through consumer habits, the article delineates how three important ‘symbolic neighborhoods of lower class masculi…
Heavy Metal Carnival and Dis-alienation: The Politics of Grotesque Realism
Based on four years of concert fieldwork and extensive music media analysis (including bands such as Cradle of Filth, GWAR, Insane Clown Posse, Marilyn Manson, and Slipknot), this article shows how heavy metal music and its carnival culture express a dis-alienating politics of resistance. Applying Bakhtin's multifaceted conceptualization of the carnival-grotesque, the author explains how grotesque realism in metal music and performances constitut…
Implosion
French postmodernist critic Jean Baudrillard's theory of implosion is one of social entropy, wherein he asserts that a consumer age of information, media, and mass media has ushered in an accelerated and coercive hyperproduction of meaning and information to the “irrational” and “terroristic” extent that all meaning, knowledge, and subjectivity, and the “social” itself, are neutralized and ultimately collapse. All that is left, he says, is an imp…
Popular Culture Forms: Hip‐Hop
Hip‐hop originated in 1974 as a local subculture in the South Bronx, New York City with Kingston, Jamaica‐born Clive Campell, the founding “Father of Hip‐Hop
Tattoos
The word tattoo derives from the Tahitian word tatau , which means to mark something. Tattooing, the practice of inserting colored materials beneath the skin, has been traced across a vast historical, cultural, and geographic plain, ranging from Australian Aborigines ca. 60,000 bce and Nubian, predynastic, and eleventh‐dynasty Egypt to Thracian Greek aristocracy, 400 bce, and fifth‐century Roman Gallic warriors (Camphausen 1997
Popular Culture Forms: Punk Music
Punk,” a slang word meaning rotten or worthless, is the name for a rock music scene that has its roots in New York City in the mid‐1970s with bands such as the Ramones, Blondie, and Talking Heads. Other early influences and proto‐punk bands included Wayne County, New York Dolls, MC5, the Velvet Underground, and Iggy Pop and the Stooges. Punk was a subcultural style that privileged anger, alienation, violence, and anarchy. Among punk's many meanin…
Popular Culture Forms: Culture and Icons
Sociologists have addressed a wide range of topics under the heading of popular culture. In fact, there are far too many to cover adequately in this encyclopedia. Thus, a decision was made to give at least a sense of this literature by sampling some of the key topics examined by sociologists and offering an indication of the way in which they have been covered. A variety of forms of popular culture are considered: the beach, hip‐hop, jazz, P2P, r…
Sociology (13 works) · Art (8 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Music History and Culture (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Media studies (4 works)