Handout 6 Flashcards
(35 cards)
is defined as the scientific study of the mind and behavior, actively involved in studying and understanding the various mental processes, brain functions, and behavior of humans
Psychology
is the accumulation of all its elements capable of sustaining and perpetuating itself based on the endorsement and participation of the people through their own volition
popular culture
The popular notion of popular culture is that only a few icons and trends remain relevant for a long time. Others just come and go.
Queer Theory
are things that have the same meanings in different cultures. They may show up in dreams, literature, art, or religion.
Archetypes
Type of archetype identifier that represents an authority figure - stern and powerful. Its moral alignment shall dictate how others perceive him.
Father Archetype
archetype identifier that represents the well-known maternal instincts - nurturing and comforting. Its moral alignment shall dictate how others perceive her.
Mother Archetype
archetype identifier that represents a person’s views of children - full of innocence, renewed life, and salvation.
Its moral alignment shall dictate how others perceive them.
Child Archetype
is a way to think about culture, history, and politics that looks at things that aren’t words. it make us who we are, but they aren’t always under our control or even in our awareness.
Affect theory
is a term that describes any and all psychological ideologies, therapies, and other techniques that gained traction through media
Popular psychology
Perhaps the most worrisome aspect of popular culture is that the success of some icons and trends stems from the notion that some of the working class begin to lose themselves to the icons and/or trends they wholeheartedly follow, to the point of devotion.
Identity Erosion
occurs because when a person is busy with something in their life, their sense of self begins to identify with the ones they poured themselves
Self-erosion
which is a popular trend that is mostly based on false, stereotypical ideas about indigenous people, has become a big thing in pop culture.
Tribalism
Individuals are shaped by their culture, and these cultures make up closed organic wholes. The individual can’t leave his or her culture but can only see himself or herself in it, not outside of it.
Culturalism
have divided popular culture into two (2) groups: those that people have made themselves, like folk art or stories, and those that were made for them, like commercial TV, advertising, arcade video games, and music.
Marxists
it pushes people to challenge the established norms of certain cultural groups.
countercultures
rejects universal explanations and instead focuses on the relative truths of each individual
Postmodernism
is derived from the French (and originally Latin) word for “kind” or “class” (Chandler, 1997).
Genre
explains how individual characteristics such as race, class, and gender, among others, “intersect” with one another.
intersectionality
are interpretations of work by fans that are debated, compared, and shared in various fan communities. They forecast or deduce future content, explain particular occurrences, or provide other viewpoints.
Fan theories
a form of discourse where a fan shares the probable origin or cause of something despite the lack of evidence in a source material, which the author had unintentionally or deliberately left behind for theory-crafting.
headcanon
is simply defined as the study of signs. Since there are several concepts in the study of signs, depending on the tradition, it may be called semiology in the Saussurean tradition and semiotics in Peircean tradition.
Semiotics
is a form that the sign takes;
signifier
is the concept the sign represents.
signified
The form which the sign takes (but not necessarily material);
Representamen
