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330: What Reality TV Teaches Us About Ourselves with Danielle Lindemann

Pivot with Jenny Blake

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The Importance of Sociology in the Classroom

The class is just kind of an introduction to sociology I say it's like sociology 101 through the lens of reality TV. So what I do each week is I pair like a classic sociological reading with an episode of a TV show so like a reading about gender and an episode of RuPaul's Drag Race. And yeah, it's a really popular class students still seem to like it. Although the students are now like watching completely different reality shows from me so I kind of have to keep up with them but it's good it keeps me current I guess. What's a gen Z reality show that they love? Their reality stars are like people who like ride peloton and YouTube videos.

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