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Curran or
Takata.
- Teaching Essay: The Winner-Take-All Philosophy in US Culture
- The Wages of Stardom: Law and the Winner-Take-All Society
The University of Chicago Law School Roundtable.
Copyright, December 2000: Jeanne Curran and Susan R. Takata. "Fair Use" encouraged. Wecome to quote.
One aspect of Fellman's "adversarial" paradigm is seen in the "winner-take-all" aspect of competition within the dominant discourse. In this essay we want to consider the "star" phenomenon and the resulting effect on everyday transactions.
- Enormous payments to celebrities. Rewards seen as beyond the realm of quotidien transactions.
- "Winner-take-all" in politics. The Presidential election 2000.
- Ways in which issues of dominance enter into this attitude. Comparison of Election 2000 to the OJ Simpson trial.