Many People Are Just Dreamers”
Telenovelas and the Ideology of Meritocracy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12756014 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Veneza M Ronsini (0000-0002-8669-3148, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 551-561 |
| Publication date | 2013-09-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Television & New Media (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1527-4764 • E-ISSN: 1552-8316 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1527476413502681 |
| OpenAlex | W2172485362 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 4 |
This article presents comparative results about the ways Brazilian working-class and middle-class youth interpret class messages in telenovelas. This work thus explores class differences in light of the current context of Brazilian peripheral modernization and argues for the continuing centrality of telenovelas in communicating to cross-class audiences about modernity. It further develops a systematic methodology for reception studies to account for the complexity of everyday sociocultural interactions and how hegemony functions. The conclusion suggests preferred and negotiated readings of poverty may be associated with telenovela viewing, which, in turn, promotes faith in personal merit and obscures Brazilian inequalities
Centrality · Class (philosophy · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Geography · Globalization · Glocalization · Hegemony · Inequality · Media studies · Middle class · Modernity · Modernization theory · Political science · Politics · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,22 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |