Miley Cyrus will be held at the College

Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, in the summer of 2014 is ready to let their students with specialty "Miley Cyrus».

The plans of the educational institution to open a summer course "Sociology of Miley Cyrus: race, class, gender and media».




Miley Cyrus concert in the tour Bangerz

Students will study the sociology of fame, popular culture and media through the prism of the personality of the singer.

Teacher future course of Professor Carolyn Chernov gave Comment ABC News:

"Cyrus breaks stereotypes about how a woman's body should be provided in pop culture, and that is good, bad or ugly. We can learn a lot about the theory of the image on the example of Miley, "- says the sociologist.
"The way we judge the stereotypical pop star female and female bodies, regrettable. There is a lot of questions about the class, gender and sexuality in the culture of expression. In addition, there is still a huge difference in the perception of color, pop stars, especially when it comes to women. »




The pop star will be for students clearest example of transformation of child stars from the popular Disney show.

21-year-old Miley Cyrus pretty quickly "buried" Hannah Montana (the character of the singer of the eponymous teenage series), and like her colleagues at the Disney shop, created for himself the image of the "wild, crazy, sexual creatures, playing with the contrast of the virgin / whore," says Professor Chernov.



The image of Hannah Montana is now the scientific interest

That is what the sociologist believes a cultural phenomenon worthy of scrutiny in the walls of the college.

Can we expect from Miley special reactions or comments? Hardly.

It is not the first star whose personality disassemble the bones college students. This has already happened with Beyonce, Jay-Z, Kanye West and Lady Gaga.

Thus, American brawlers from the culture of friendly systems already included in textbooks.

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