The Wire as Social Science-fiction?
Dados Bibliográficos
| AUTOR(ES) | |
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| AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) | Department of Sociology, University of York, UK, Department of Sociology, University of York, UK, |
| ANO | 2011 |
| TIPO | Artigo |
| PERIÓDICO | Sociology |
| ISSN | 0038-0385 |
| E-ISSN | 1469-8684 |
| EDITORA | Annual Reviews (United States) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0038038510387199 |
| CITAÇÕES | 7 |
| ADICIONADO EM | 2025-08-18 |
| MD5 |
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Resumo
This article examines the HBO television series The Wire as an example of a popular cultural form that stimulates the sociological imagination. It provides some examples of how it functions to do this. A brief case study of one character — 'Snoop' — is examined to illustrate a set of more general observations. It is suggested that The Wire, although still containing strong narrative elements, provides an intriguing popular cultural example of what Andrew Abbott has recently called a 'lyrical sociology'.