Today, with our guest Phoebe Kaufman from the Money Can't Buy You Class podcast, we're talking about the construction of reality for reality TV stars. A little Berger, a little Butler, tune in to help us make sense of it all.

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Sources:

Give Them Lala podcast, The One About All the VPR Moments episode

The Daily podcast, Sunday Read: How Tom Sandoval Became the Most Hated Man in America.

Peter L. Berger, The Social Construction of Reality: https://web.archive.org/web/20191009202613id_/http://perflensburg.se/Berger%20social-construction-of-reality.pdf

Judith Butler’s Theory of Gender Performativity, Explained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XFg8f1STLk&ab_channel=Film%26MediaStudies

Louis Althusser's "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses."

Culture Study Podcast, The Complicated Future of Reality TV episode