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18 Cards in this Set
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what is culture?
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the commumeration of the artifacts that a particular group of people share - a way of life
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what are the levels of culture?
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low: lady gag, snuggie
mid: new york times high: bach, chanel |
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how do people resist cultural change?
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prohibition: the nobel experiement (of alcohol)
censorship: movie ratings violence: civil rights movement |
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what is pop culture?
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coming together of high and low culture and all that lies btwn. "youth culure"
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what elements make up pop culture?
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spectacle: entertainment (vaudeville)
collage: "patchwork" combing different cultural elements (pastiche) nostalgia: apart of you - ability to connect with us emotionally |
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what distinguishes pop culture from other forms of culture?
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pop culture is directed towards the masses, culture is consistent - it's a moving line
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what is postmodernism?
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- no absolutes (socail constructs)
- uncertainity (skepticism) - the problematization of objective truth inherent suspicion towards global cultural narrative |
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what role does race/ethnicity play with pop culture?
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significant portion of pop culture is appropriated from racial/ethnic minorities
ex: the charleston - black culture orginally, vaudeville - jewish culture orginally |
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bull's eye
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sender>message>reciever
- aimed to identify the main componets of telecommunications systems and describe in precise terms how they functioned in the transmission and reception of info. |
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SMCR
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same as bull's eye but you add encoder, decoder, and channel
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feminism
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construct to that was subservient to the desires of the male psyche, a male plot to maintain control of women's minds/bodies
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post-feminism
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using sexuality as a source of power
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marxist
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highly pessismistic about possibility of genuine culture under modern capitalism, condemning most forms of popular culture as modes of propganda used to disguise social inequalities
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HNT (hypodermic needle theory)
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media is directly capable of swaying minds
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selective perception theory
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people tend to come up with interpretations that are consistent with the values of the social class or group to which they belong
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functionalist theory (cultivation theory)
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media cultivates the staus quo
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uses and gratification theory
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media does nothing to people, people use the media for their own purposes and gratification
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semiotics
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opposition, mythology, representation
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