Exam 1 Flashcards
Who developed interpellation
Althusser
Who believes there’s an “outside of ideology”
Marx
Who incorporated the concept of the “unconscious” into his theory of ideology?
Althusser
Who noted that the dominant class is split into two different interest groups, comprised of intellectuals and industrialists?
Marx
Who wrote: “The division of labor…. manifests itself also in the ruling class as the division of mental and material production, so that inside this class one part appears as the thinkers of the class… while others’ attitude to these ideas and illusions is more passive and receptive, because they are in reality the active members of this class and have less time to make up illusions and ideas about themselves”
Marx
Who wrote: “serious art has denied itself to those for whom the hardship and oppression of life make a mockery of seriousness and who must be glad to use the time not spent at the production line in being simply carried along”
Adorno
In referring to film, which theorist claimed, “The more densely and completely its techniques duplicate empirical objects, the more easily it creates the illusion that the world outside is a seamless extension of the one which has been revealed in the cinema?”
Adorno
Which theorist argues that ideology takes root in subject through embodied rituals?
Althusser
What is the tier of the socio-economic structure that contains cultural institutions, texts, and practices
Superstructure
What refers to the process by which we are hailed as subjects of ideology through our immersion of language
Interpellation
A ____ State Apparatus functions primarily through physical coercion or violence.
Repressive
What is established when the ruling class and the subordinate class coalesce around a shared ideology and establish political power
Historical Bloc
What is socially constructed way of perceiving and experiencing the world that makes the existing social relations seem natural and inevitable
Ideology
According to Marx, the subordinate class was unable to recognize their own exploitation because they were under the mental spell of ________, which was promoted by the ruling class through superstructural institutions like churches and schools
false consciousness
What refers to the impulse that drives organic intellectuals to encourage their fellow proletarian to break away from hegemony and recognize themselves as members of a distinct, revolutionary class
Spirit of scission
Who wrote, “the class which is ruling material force of society at the same time is ruling the intellectual force”
Marx
Who identified as a Marxist, but explicitly critiqued Marx’s economic determinism (the one way transmission model of base/ superstructure) as being too simplistic and not conducive to urgent revolutionary action
Gramsci
Who wrote that “just as the ruled have always taken the morality dispensed to them by the rulers more seriously than the rulers themselves, the defrauded masses today cling to the myth of success more ardently than the successful?”
Adorno
What sociopolitical event catalyzed the Frankfurt School’s pessimistic assessment of mass entertainment?
The Holocaust
Marx believed that ____ determines
means of production/ ideology
Gramsci believed that ______ could spread counter-hegemonic ideas, and instigate the _______ of _____ which would motivate the masses to strike back against the dominant capitalist class
Organic intellectualism/ ideology/ spirit of scission
Adorno argued that art is _____ and shameless whereas the culture is ______ and prudish
ascetic/ pornographic
In order to establish _______ dominant groups must somehow address the desires and anxieties of subordinate groups so that they will join them in their efforts to seize political power. In contemporary America, the dominant capitalist class uses the issue of _______ to form an ideological alliance with the subordinate working class
Hegemony/ being forgotten about
Example off RSA/ ISA
Police/ School
