Danielle Lindemann & Shamus Khan: True Story -- What Reality TV Says about Us

By taking reality TV seriously, True Story argues, we can better understand key institutions (like families, schools, and prisons) and broad social constructs (such as gender, race, class, and sexuality). From The Bachelor to Real Housewives to COPS and more, reality programming unveils the major circuits of power that organize our lives. Whether we are watching conniving Survivor contestants or three-year-old beauty queens, these guilty pleasures' underscore how conservative our society remains, and how steadfastly we cling to our notions about who or what counts as legitimate or real.
Danielle J. Lindemann is Associate Professor of Sociology at Lehigh University. She is the author of Commuter Spouses: New Families in a Changing World and of Dominatrix: Gender, Eroticism and Control in the Dungeon. Shamus Khan is professor of sociology and American studies at Princeton University. He is the author of Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul’s School, and of Sexual Citizens: Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus, among other books.
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