Culture ( II )- Culture and Domination Flashcards
Authority
the ability to have others obey you
traditional authority
followers obey because of long-established cultural prestige of role
charismatic authority
followers obey due to personal magnetism of inspirational leader
Rational-legal authority
leader chosen in legally-defined process
Dominant ideology
system of values, beliefs and practices that justify and support existing social systems, and defend the authority of this within power within it
hegemony
Gramsci’s term for the intellectual and ideological control of society by the dominant class
Antonio Gramsci
suggests using class maintains dominance through control intellectuals
collective Consciousness
the whole collection of values, beliefs, ideas that the vast majority of people in a society assume to be extremely wrong
solidarity
the ‘force’ that holds us all together in society, bringing people together as something more than just a crowd of individuals
encoding
hiding messages about normal model of society within cultural items
decoding
how we understand messages
dominant culture
the values, norms and beliefs and ways of behaving of the ruling group in society
Bechdel test
Alison Bechdel’s measure of female presence in major Hollywood movies
the external feminine
the supposed mysterious ‘essence’ of women, often referred to by poets, artists and novelists
orientalism
Said’s term describing the way white europeans saw rest of the world as mysterious primitive
Alterity
how one (dominant) group depicts another as somehow different from norm or less than human
conspicuous consumption
the practice of buying expensive, showy products in order to demonstrate your status and power to others
capital
a resource you invest in order to get more of it back
Economic capital
Invest money in order to increase wealth
Cultural Capital
stock of knowledge; to assert status and try to increase it
Social capital
useful contacts; using them to meet others, who are in contact with themselves
Habitus
deeply-ingrained habits, customs, ways of behaving or caring self, learnt as a child
Production of culture perspectives
examination of cultural or artistic objects through the socioeconomic circumstances they were produced in
culture industry
Adorno and Horkheimer’s term for the modern entertainment industry which produces arts on a production line
