Modern Families: new definitions

Show #108, Hour 1 | Guest: Joshua Gamson is an award-winning author of four books: Modern Families (New York University, 2015), Claims to Fame: Celebrity in Contemporary America (California, 1994); Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows, and Sexual Nonconformity (Chicago, 1998). Gamson’s work has been published in magazines such as “The New York Times Magazine” and “The American Prospect.” Gamson is a professor of Sociology at the University of San Francisco, where he moved in 2002 after nine years on faculty at Yale University. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow (2009-10) and is a 2015-16 Fellow at the Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences | Show Summary: Angie interviews author and professor Joshua Gamson on his latest book, Modern Families: Stories of Extraordinary Journeys Through Kinship.