Critical Issues: Week 3 (Terms) Flashcards
Viewers Make Meaning
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Binary Opposition
A pair of related terms or concepts that are opposite in meaning.
(Ex. Good vs evil, nature vs culture etc).
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Biopower
How modern states utilize institutional practices to regulate and control their human subjects (population) in school, military, workplace and production settings.
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Colonialism
The process of a nation acquiring partial or full control over another nation, people and territories; occupying their land and resources.
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Discourse
The socially organized process of talking or writing about a particular subject matter.
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Identification
The psychological process where one forms a bond or emulates an aspect of another person and transforms through that process.
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The Other
A term used to refer to the symbolic opposite to the mainstream/normative category.
The person labelled as “the other” is disadvantaged in this dynamic.
(Ex. A slave is “the other” to the master).
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Orientalism
A term that refers to how Western cultures have represented and conceived Eastern/Middle Eastern cultures as “the other” and associates these cultures with exoticism and barbarism.
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Panopticon
A prison designed by a nineteenth century philosopher, Jeremy Bentham, which the inmate can always be observed by a guard; models how contemporary society scrutinizes behaviour so that individuals internalize and obey its rules.
(Ex. Surveillance cameras).
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Post-colonialism
A term that refers to the cultural and social contexts of countries that were formerly defined through relationships of colonialism.
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Queer
Originally a derogatory term used towards homosexual individuals.
Currently used as a positive term to refer to a person who’s sexual identity isn’t heterosexual/gender identity isn’t cis-gender.
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Spectator
A person who views the arts.
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Unconscious
A psychoanalytic theory that indicates a phenomena tat are not within the consciousness of any given moment.
