Survivor & Big Brother
In Survivor's first season (2000), Richard Hatch secretly organized four players into this voting bloc, what is the term for this.
What is an alliance?
In 2002, this Fox show, adapted from Britain's Pop Idol, crowned Kelly Clarkson its first winner.
What is American Idol?
Jersey Shore's 2009 catchphrase: Gym, Tan, (blank).
What is Laundry? (GTL)
Selling Sunset follows agents at this Los Angeles luxury brokerage.
What is the Oppenheim Group?
This Canadian-born sociologist described life as a performance with a front stage and a back stage.
Who is Erving Goffman?
“Outwit, Outplay, Outlast” is the tagline of this show, based on Sweden's Expedition Robinson.
What is Survivor?
On this NBC singing competition, coaches sit in chairs facing away from the stage during auditions.
What is The Voice?
This Bravo franchise began in Orange County in 2006 and ends each season with a reunion special hosted by Andy Cohen.
What is The Real Housewives?
Made in Chelsea premiered in 2011 on this British channel.
What is E4?
George Homans and this other sociologist developed social exchange theory.
Who is Peter Blau?
Big Brother takes its name from this 1949 George Orwell novel about total surveillance.
What is Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)?
In 1958, sociologist Michael Young coined this term as a satire, not a compliment.
What is Meritocracy?
This genre blends documentary-style filming with soap-opera storytelling and an ensemble cast.
What is a Docusoap?
Housewives showed wealth as lifestyle. Below Deck shows wealth as this.
What is work?
This French philosopher used Jeremy Bentham's panopticon as a model for modern surveillance.
Who is Michel Foucault?
On Big Brother, housemates speak privately to the show in this confessional booth.
What is the Diary Room?
The US version of The Voice (2011) was adapted from this Dutch format.
What is The Voice of Holland?
In 2023, this Vanderpump Rules affair scandal broke out of Bravo fandom and into mainstream news.
What is Scandoval?
On Below Deck, crew pay depends on how happy guests are at the end of the trip, turning service into the plot. The lecture calls this the tip ___.
What is the Tip Economy?
In The Managed Heart (1983), this sociologist studied flight attendants and coined “emotional labor.”
Who is Arlie Hochschild?
Thomas Mathiesen's term for the reverse of the panopticon, where the many watch the few.
What is the synopticon?
A meritocracy needs a fair test and (blank). The lecture says American Idol nails the first and skips the second.
What is 'an equal starting line'?
Skeggs and Wood say reality performers must do this: visibly perform that they are “real.”
What is Authenticity Work?
With Downton Abbey, this 1971 British drama is the TV ancestor of Below Deck's class geography.
What is the Upstairs and Downstairs?
This French sociologist coined “cultural capital,” the hidden advantage behind Idol's “raw talent” story.
Who is Pierre Bourdieu?