Midterm Review Pop Culture

Question 1

What is Pop Culture

Answer 1

Popular Culture
Popular- messages with a wide reach
Culture- ideas, perspectives, attitudes, images and other phenomena within mainstream Western Culture
Influenced and transmitted by mass media, permeates everyday lives of society

Question 2

Two Types of Reception Analysis

Answer 2

Preferred Reading and Negotiated Meaning

Question 3

What is preferred reading?

Answer 3

Most overt, no active analysis

Question 4

What is negotiated meaning?

Answer 4

Active analysis, multiple, interpretations

Question 5

What are the exposure states?

Answer 5

Automatic, Attentional, Transported, Self-reflexive

Question 6

Automatic State

Answer 6

exposed to messages, but not consciously aware

Question 7

Attentional State

Answer 7

Aware of messages, actively interact with messages, concentration varies, conscious of exposure

Question 8

Transported State

Answer 8

Swept away, lose sense of separateness from message, different than attentional state, emotionally involved

Question 9

Self-Reflexive State

Answer 9

hyper-attentive, consciously attend to messages and aware of how they are processing info, meta-analysis takes place

Question 10

Dimensions of identity

Answer 10

Race, gender, class, sexual orientation, ability status

Question 11

What is race?

Answer 11

Categorization of human based on shared physical or social qualities into groups viewed as distinct; A social construct- identify assigned based on rule created by society

Question 12

Ethnicity

Answer 12

Identification of a group based on perceived cultural distinctiveness

Question 13

Why is ethnicity separate from race?

Answer 13

Identity is not a separate race, your race does not determine your ethnicity

Question 14

How is each race represented?

Answer 14

White- Heavily underrepresented
Black- Heavily overrepresented
Hispanics- Heavily underrepresented
Asian- Underrepresented

Question 15

What is the traditional progression of racial minorities on television?

Answer 15

Nonrecognition (exclusion)
Ridicule (stereotyping, buffoonery)
Regulation (police officers, lawyers)
Respect (diverse, nuanced)

Question 16

What is a parasocial relationship?

Answer 16

To think of fictional characters as your friends

Question 17

Intergroup Contact Theory

Answer 17

when majority and minority groups mingle- under the right circumstances- negative feelings about each other tend to dissipate

Question 18

Why does intergroup contact theory affect us?

Answer 18

Your ideas about that group get more complicated; increases ability to emphasize with people they might not otherwise relate to; IGCT holds true only when everyone in social situation feels safe comfortable and respected

Question 19

Homophily

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Love of the same-> people tend to hang out with others who look and think like them

Question 20

5 Major Social Functions

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Popular culture generates basic social norms; Popular culture produces social boundaries; Popular culture produces rituals that generate social solidarity; Popular culture generates innovation; Popular culture generates social progress

Question 21

Genesis amnesia

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We often forget the beginning, especially in regards to Indigenous and colonized peoples

Question 22

Anomie

Answer 22

Normlessness

Question 23

Define power

Answer 23

The ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person

Question 24

Symbolic Annihilation

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No stories about a population (ex. Native Americans), cause them to become basically nonexistent

Question 25

What kind of opportunity does Tv provide us?

Answer 25

It helps people lower defense and connect with people they might try to avoid in real life

Question 26

Define Gender

Answer 26

Gender is socially constructed---> Challenges our idea that gender is a fixed outcome of our biological differences For individuals, gender means sameness For society, gender means difference

Question 27

What are the 5 dimensions of identity?

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Race, sexuality, gender, disability, and class

Question 28

Define Interpretation

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It is how we determine what the cultural good means and how we act on those meanings

Question 29

What is a stereotype?

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A stereotype is a representation of a group that is repeated so often that it comes to dominate the way that the group is thought of in the social world

Question 30

What is cultural appreciation?

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The adoption or use of elements of one culture by members of a different culture

Question 31

What is intersectionality?

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Identifies multiple factors of advantage and disadvantage (ex. gender, sex, race, ethnicity, class, disability); we cannot understand the full story if we only look at 1 dimension at a time

Question 32

What is the message of pop culture?

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The message of pop culture taken as a whole is that we are not good enough. We are insufficient persons due to our race, or ethnicity, gender or social identity, social class, etc.

Question 33

What is creation?

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The artistic dimension and the ways the work is infused with meaning

Question 34

What is consumption?

Answer 34

How we access and select a cultural good

Question 35

What is production?

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The economic dimension including the labor force that makes work and the determination of its economic value

Question 36

What is class?

Answer 36

A group of people sharing the same social, economic or occupational status. Class categories such as low, middle and high- or poor, working, middle, and wealthy- are cultural categories more than official distinctions

Question 37

What is double consciousness?

Answer 37

A theory of the unique experience of being black and American in a country where, and at a time when, it seemed one simply could not be both

Question 38

Which group is consistently underrepresented on TV?

Answer 38

Latina women

Question 39

What would be the best word to describe the representation of LGBTQ people on TV?

Answer 39

Overrepresented

Question 40

Key pieces of the Critical Media Project

Answer 40

Sexuality (or sexual orientation) refers broadly to an individual’s physical and/or emotional attraction to a person of the same or opposite sex. Sexual orientation is interpersonal. LGBTQ, which stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (or questioning), has become the common shorthand to inclusively reference this diverse set of sexuality and gender-based identities and communities. Historically, many societies have been intolerant of homosexual and bisexual individuals, or anyone who does not adhere to heterosexist norms. Media has played a role in both perpetuating and resisting this state of affairs. There has been an increase in LGBTQ representation and visibility in the media since the late 1990s, but there are still very few prominent LGBT characters in the mainstream media.