Culture

Question 1

Lucy

Answer 1

Consumer Culture:
Consumer goods are largely available and the debt and excessive consumption associated with it are seen as normal

Question 2

McLuhan

Answer 2

Global Culture:
World has become a smaller place called a ‘global village’

Question 3

Polemus

Answer 3

Global Culture:
Hybrized cultures are possible as society is a ‘supermarket of style’

Question 4

Condry

Answer 4

Global Culture:
Individuals are locally producing new forms of music based on a mixture of different cultural influences
Hip-Hop in Japan. Artists combine figure of the samurai with American rapping techniques

Question 5

Luke and Luke

Answer 5

Global Culture:
Youth cultures are influenced by media found globally
Youth subcultures are becoming hybrized

Question 6

Levis

Answer 6

High Culture:
Ensures preservation of English culture and literature of the elite

Question 7

Bourdieu

Answer 7

High Culture:
Social assets that people have can be used to attain success and social mobility

Question 8

Douglas

Answer 8

High Culture:
Working class children may lack ‘correct’ values and attitudes to do well

Question 9

Bernstein

Answer 9

Hight Culture:
Working class usually have a restricted speech code (uncomplicated language)
Middle class usually have an elaborated speech code (extended language)

Question 10

Strinati

Answer 10

Popular Culture:
The media spreads and maintains popular culture

Question 11

Adorno

Answer 11

Popular Culture:
Way of socialising the masses into a subordinate and obedient set of values and attitudes