This article illustrates how reality television serves as a visible barometer of a person’s moral worth. The research includes an analysis of the shift towards self-legitimation, the growing importance of reflexivity and the decline of social class proposed by the individualization thesis. We focus on the transformation of self present in reality shows as public examples of the dramatization of individualization. The over-recruitment of different types of working-class participants for these programs and the positioning of many in need of transformation has allowed for an exploration of how certain cultures are positioned, evaluated and interpreted as inadequate, deficient and in need of improvement. We discovered that the individualization promoted by these programs is always dependent on the access and operationalization of specific social, cultural, economic and symbolic capital.
A Economia Moral da Apresentação Pessoal: relações de classe e auto-performances nos reality shows
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accommodation, algorithmic, assets, capitalism, care, class, critique of economics, cultural values e.g. respectability, death, distinction, divisions of labour, economic value, embodiment, financial, social reproduction, gender, identity, ideology, the state, law, media, Media: Journal Article, personhood, property, race, Reader-Level: A-Level +, religion, representation, resistance, sexuality, shame, struggle, values