Exam 1

Question 1

Who developed interpellation

Answer 1

Althusser

Question 2

Who believes there’s an “outside of ideology”

Answer 2

Marx

Question 3

Who incorporated the concept of the “unconscious” into his theory of ideology?

Answer 3

Althusser

Question 4

Who noted that the dominant class is split into two different interest groups, comprised of intellectuals and industrialists?

Answer 4

Marx

Question 5

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”

Answer 5

Marx

Question 6

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”

Answer 6

Adorno

Question 7

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?”

Answer 7

Adorno

Question 8

Which theorist argues that ideology takes root in subject through embodied rituals?

Answer 8

Althusser

Question 9

What is the tier of the socio-economic structure that contains cultural institutions, texts, and practices

Answer 9

Superstructure

Question 10

What refers to the process by which we are hailed as subjects of ideology through our immersion of language

Answer 10

Interpellation

Question 11

A ____ State Apparatus functions primarily through physical coercion or violence.

Answer 11

Repressive

Question 12

What is established when the ruling class and the subordinate class coalesce around a shared ideology and establish political power

Answer 12

Historical Bloc

Question 13

What is socially constructed way of perceiving and experiencing the world that makes the existing social relations seem natural and inevitable

Answer 13

Ideology

Question 14

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

Answer 14

false consciousness

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Spirit of scission

Question 16

Who wrote, “the class which is ruling material force of society at the same time is ruling the intellectual force”

Answer 16

Marx

Question 17

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

Answer 17

Gramsci

Question 18

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?”

Answer 18

Adorno

Question 19

What sociopolitical event catalyzed the Frankfurt School’s pessimistic assessment of mass entertainment?

Answer 19

The Holocaust

Question 20

Marx believed that ____ determines

Answer 20

means of production/ ideology

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Organic intellectualism/ ideology/ spirit of scission

Question 22

Adorno argued that art is _____ and shameless whereas the culture is ______ and prudish

Answer 22

ascetic/ pornographic

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Hegemony/ being forgotten about

Question 24

Example off RSA/ ISA

Answer 24

Police/ School

Question 25

Capitalism is fundamentally based on the _____ of labor; Marx argued that the owners of the ______ of _____ disseminate ideas to the working classes to keep them in a state of _____ consciousness, and thus unable to recognize the economic roots of their suffering

Answer 25

division/ means/ production/ false