Welcome to the website for Soc/Anth 425/525 Society and Popular Culture
 at the University of Idaho.

You will find the relevant course information below and through the links to the left.

Professor: John Mihelich, Ph.D.

Office & Phone: Phinney Hall 401,  885-5046

Office Hours: TR 8:30-10:30 a.m., Wed 2:00-4:00 p.m., or by appt.

Email: jmihelic@uidaho.edu     

                                          Course Mentor: Christen Bryson (Chris Ann)

                                                   Email: brys5672@uidaho.edu

“[Popular culture] is one of the sites where this struggle for and against a culture of the powerful is engaged…It is the arena of consent and resistance. It is partly where hegemony arises, and where it is secured…That is why ‘popular culture’ matters. Otherwise, to tell you the truth, I don’t give a damn about it” --Stuart Hall 1981. “Notes on Deconstructing the Popular,” in Raphael Samuel, ed., People’s History and Socialist Theory. London:Routledge & Kegan Paul, pg. 239, cited in Richard Butsch, 2000. The Making of American Audiences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pg. 284-5.

"The spontaneous inspiration of performance escapes, fleetingly, the tendency of capitalist commodity production to transform all such cultural processes into calculated packaged objects of consumption…there is every reason to feel cynical.  But sports performance itself always carries the magical promise of inspiration and improvisation. It holds out the possibility of remaining playful, of grasping pleasure and holding reality at bay…such moments of inspired performance symbolize a rare victory of people over the limitations that confine us." --Whannel, Garry 1993. "Sport and Popular Culture: The Temporary Triumph of Process Over Product." Innovation: the European Journal of Social Sciences. 6 (3): 349.

Click HERE to go directly to the "library reserve" page to link to articles on ereserve for this class.

CLICK HERE TO GO DIRECTLY TO THE UI LIBRARY DATABASE SEARCHES FOR  ARTICLES