Framing Class Vicarious Living Analysis

The article, “Framing Class, Vicarious Living, and Conspicuous Consumption” from an award-winning book Framing Class: Media Representations of Wealth and Poverty in America (2005), written by a sociology professor at Baylor University, Diana Kendall, attacks the approach that the media takes in regard to class differences. Kendall asserts that being rich and famous is more highlighted than the role played by the lower-class people in the success of America. The people who are a part of the working class are the reason why some rich people are where they are today. Media’s idealistic view of the wealthy provides television viewers a drive to become the next Paris Hilton or American Idol. Kendall states that the poor only get attention on