First Exam

Question 1

Symbolic Action

Answer 1

Expressive human action, the rhetorical mobilization of symbols to act in and affect the world
○ Includes but not limited to; speeches, silent marches, movies, memes documentaries, plays, blogs, newspaper articles, social media posts

Question 2

Identification

Answer 2

• Is created through symbolic action
• is a communicative process through which people are unified into a whole on the basis of common interests or characteristics

Question 3

Division

Question 4

Consubstantiality

Question 5

Social Reality (social constructivism)

Answer 5

reality as understood thru the symbols humans use to represent it

Question 6

Constituvitive Rhetoric

Answer 6

Art of constituting character, community, and culture in language

Question 7

Civic engagement

Answer 7

People’s participation in individual or collective action to construct identity and develop solutions to social, economic, and political challenges in their communities, states, nations and the world

Question 8

Stranger Relationality

Answer 8

Willingness to communicate with others to develop collective self understanding that acknowledges mutual interdependence with strangers and in ways that focus on the public good instead of simply seeing one’s self as seeking to maximize individual power
- challenge: polarization

Question 9

Rhetorical Agency

Answer 9

Capacity to act, that is, to have the competence to speak or write [or engage in any form of symbolic action] in a way that will be recognized or heeding by others in one’s community
- money
- education
- skin tone
- religion

Question 10

Political friendship

Answer 10

A set of habits people use in civic spaces to interact and make decisions with people who might be strangers or who have different identities, interests, or needs

Question 11

Terministic Screens

Answer 11

a screen composed of terms through which humans perceive the world, and that directs attention away from some interpretations and toward others

Question 12

Semiotics. (signs)

Answer 12

the relationship among signs, meanings, and referents

Question 13

Public Vocabularies

Answer 13

culturally established and sanctioned terms that compose people’s taken-for-granted understanding of the world

Question 14

Dramatism

Answer 14

an idea that is premised on two interlocking assumptions; (1) language is primarily a species of action … rather than an instrument of definitions and (2) the best way to under stand human relations and motives is through analysis of symbolic action

Question 15

Presentational Forms

Question 16

Ideology

Answer 16

the ideas, values, beliefs, perceptions and understandings that are known to members of a society and that guide their behaviors

Question 17

Hegemony

Answer 17

the dominant ideology of a society, exerting social control over people without the use of force.

Question 18

Scapegoating

Question 19

Power

Answer 19

the ability to get things done

Question 19

Public Memory

Answer 19

a particular type of collective memory that combines the memories of the dominant culture and fragments of marginalized groups of memories and enables a public to make sense of the past, present, and future

Question 20

Persuasive Continuum

Answer 20

experience that can altar perceptions
- outside of personal lived experienced
- more sensational gets people’s attention so its more persuasive and engaging

Question 21

Culture

Answer 21

the historically transimitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms by means of which [people] communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and attitudes toward life
- explains values that influences us
- frames the way you see the world