White Women, U.S. Popular Culture, and Narratives of Addiction

Accelerated Innovation and Increased Spatial Diversity of US Popular Culture

At a time of increasing globalization of much popular culture, we observe not a rise but a marked fall in the spatial homogeneity of the popularity of first names across the United States in recent decades. We explain this apparent paradox by calibrating a modified standard model of neutral cultural evolution to the record of first name popularities for the United as a whole since 1900 and acro...

Christianity and Popular Culture

Tragic Narratives in Popular Culture: Depictions of Homicide in Rap Music

Homicide is a rare event, but depictions of it are quite common in our culture and discourse. Commercially successful rappers have appropriated homicide as a central theme in their lyrical compositions. The tremendous success of rap music is indicative of its increasing popular appeal and cultural impact. We reveal the ways homicide is constructed within rap music and its frequency of occurrenc...

Myths of Popular Culture

The aim of this article is to explore some critical moments in the formation of ‘popular’ culture studies. This objective is not exhaustive, cannot be exhaustive in the space of a single article, since popular cultural studies have grown into an academic industry which not even five live-times of academic work by any individual can exhaust! This article is therefore, a rapid but hopefully, prov...

Violence narratives of Mexican women treated in mutual-aid residential centers for addiction treatment

BACKGROUND Violence against women is a social and public health issue in Mexico. The aim of this article is to explore violence among an understudied group of women, who attended Mutual-Aid Residential Centers for Addiction Treatment and experienced stigma both as women and addicts. These centers are particular kind of addiction treatment services that stem from 12-step philosophy, but that hav...