Lecture 4

Question 1

what is path dependency?

Answer 1

what has occurred in the past persists because of resistance to change

Question 2

what is the sex positivity movement?

Answer 2

people should explore their sexuality without judgement

Question 3

what is popular culture?

Answer 3

cultural ideas popular in society

Question 4

what does highly controversial mean?

Answer 4

causing a lot of disagreement in society

Question 5

what is cultural lag?

Answer 5

idea that culture takes time to catch up to technological advances

Question 6

what are countercultures?

Answer 6

a type of subculture that repels against the mainstream culture

Question 7

what are subcultures?

Answer 7

culture different from the dominant culture and is not necessarily bad

Question 7

what is mainstream culture?

Answer 7

cultural ideas that align with society ideals

Question 8

what is secondary socialization?

Answer 8

learning culture from sources apart from family and friends like social media

Question 9

what is cultural displacement?

Answer 9

when you move to a new place and you feel like you don’t fit into the new place and your original place

Question 10

what is cultural diffusion?

Answer 10

transfer of beliefs from one society to another

Question 11

what is globalization?

Answer 11

integration of culture making the world a more interconnected place

Question 12

what is liquid modernity?

Answer 12

constant change and adaptation to constantly changing culture

Question 13

what are the three main trends of why people do not believe in science?

SIF

Answer 13

1. newer generations are more skeptical
2. increasing use of the internet and social media for evidence
3. feedback loop between media, politicians and news

Question 14

what is a feedback loop?

Answer 14

when the outputs are feed back as inputs because of a chain reaction

Question 15

what does protestant reformation promote?

Answer 15

promotes literacy

Question 16

what does the expansion of democracy promote?

Answer 16

interest in political matters

Question 17

what did capitalist industrialization create media as a source of?

Answer 17

profit

Question 18

what are the four important functions of media?
CSCE

Answer 18

1. coordinate and share information
2. act as an agent of socialization
3. social control by influencing conformity
4. entertainment

Question 19

what is narcotization?

Answer 19

becoming numb because of consumption of to much information

Question 20

what is the effect of media broadcasting beliefs?

Answer 20

acceptance of the structures of society including its inequalities

Question 21

what is the meaning behind ownership of media being highly concentrated?

Answer 21

media is in the hands of a small group of people like CTV and CNN and it is highly profitable for them

Question 22

who created the concept of hegemony?

Answer 22

Antonio Gramsci

Question 23

what is hegemony?

Answer 23

when dominant groups maintain their dominant position

Question 23

what is cultural imperialism?

Answer 23

when one society’s media exerts unilateral influence over another society

Question 24

what is tribalism?

Answer 24

tendency to reinforce ideas belonging to your group

Question 25

what is polarization?

Answer 25

having a lot of opposing opinions about a situation