Final Exam Flashcards
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What are cultural studies based on?
Critical theory and Frankfurt school of thought
Who is in charge of the critical studies?
Stuart Hall
When did Stuart Hall die?
This February
Cultural studies are loosely based on whose works?
Karl Marx
What do socialists do with the interpretive approach?
they take it and they are critical of it
What are socialists critical of?
- Interpretive approach
- Empiricism
- quantitative methods
- Body counts
- Cause/effects research
- science (social and physical)
What do socialists prefer?
- Ideas
- Meaning
- Language
- Symbols
Stuart Hall is critical of how media do what?
- it maintains power and dominance
- language is used to maintain that
Who are the “haves”?
those who have power, money, and control
Who are the “Have nots”?
those who do not have power, money, and control
What is corporate control?
when you have money and control you can put out whatever you want
Who is the obstinate audience?
people do not have to believe what they are told
What does Hall want the obstinate audience want you to do?
Hall wants them to be resistant.
Hall doesn’t believe that it is what info is presented but what?
Whose information it is
Hegemony
the sway (influence) of one country over another
Where are other sways?
- one country over another
- one region over another
- the “haves” over the “have nots”
What is coercion?
prop up the status quo of the dominant
What is a theory?
a theory is a system of assumptions, accepted principles, and rules of procedure devised to analyze, predict, or otherwise explain the nature or behavior of a specified set of phenomena.
Who came up with the cultivation theory?
George Gerbner
When did George Gerbner die?
in 2005
What does the cultivation theory have to do with?
people’s attitudes
What is the #1 message in programming?
violence
What passed religion in storytelling?
Television
What is content analysis?
index of violence