Pop culture freaks chap 3 takeaways

Question 1

What do the Jeffersons and “All in the family” communicate to us about class?

Answer 1

American dream works for some . Class position dictates lifestyle

Question 2

What does modern family communicate about cvlass?

Answer 2

Little acknowldgement about class identity and distinction . consumption consumption sonsumption

Question 3

What leisurely items do midern family promote

Answer 3

Big houses great clothes lots of leisure time nice cars, affluent spending regardless of circumastance

Question 4

What are the three elements in Marx’s capital vilumes in relation to pop culture?

Answer 4

Pop culture is a capatalist production

Pop culture is a system of commodities

Pop culture is a symbol system that teaches us about the economic world

Question 5

Who cretated the concepts habitus and cultural capital?

Answer 5

Pierre boudieu

Question 6

What is cultursal captal?

Answer 6

Cultural background, knowledge, disposition, and skills that are passed on from one generation to aother.

Question 7

Cultural capital represents ways of talking _____, _____ as well as language practice values and dress and behavior

Answer 7

acting , socializing

Question 8

What is Habitus?

Answer 8

A structure of dispositions that we acquire from life experiences, especially from our families. Schools also play a major role.

Question 9

Who created the theory, taste culrues, from pop culture to high culture?

Answer 9

Herbert gans

Question 10

What are the 5 elements in herbaert gans from pop culture to high culture?

Answer 10

High culture, upper middle, lower middle, low cultuer, and quasi folk

Question 11

What is high culture?

Answer 11

Serious and form focused.n Participants usually highly educated

Question 12

What is Upper middle?

Answer 12

less serious, reflect new generation of college educsated individuals

Question 13

What are upper middles more concerned witrh?

Answer 13

making their financial means visable to others, less concerned with issues of form

Question 14

What is lowe middle?

Answer 14

focused on represenation less tolerant of abstraction

Question 15

What way does low culture tend to treat culture, and are they more liberal or conservative?

Answer 15

Cnservative, treat it as effeminate and immora, ikely to maintaiun strng gender roles

Question 16

What is Quasi folk?

Answer 16

Isolated by poverty from mainstream american culture

Question 17

What does gans use as an example to highlight quasi folk culrture?

Answer 17

Uraba graffiti and telenovelas

Question 18

What are four major themes of class in contemprary conemas?

Answer 18

True liove conquers class, American dream, ethnic division trumps class unity and class invisibility

Question 19

What theme relates to most american films?

Answer 19

Class invisibility

Question 20

Pop culture promotes affluent consumption, even for

Answer 20

Lower incomes

Question 21

Despite perceptions of rich hoillywood culture industry jobs are predoinantly?

Answer 21

Middle class

Question 22

In relation to the cultural diamond, overall class is both?

Answer 22

Very powerful and nearly invisible

Question 23

In relation to the study of women of different classes, tv, and the lenses they view it through, what lens do middle class women and working class women view tv thrugh?

Answer 23

Middle class - gender

working class- class

Question 24

What is cutural performance?

Answer 24

Demonstrating one has the necesarry level of cultural capital

Question 25

What idea of the american dream and class are culture industries prooting through pop culture?

Answer 25

That the best chance for entry into middle class ins not redistribution of wealth pr political action, unions, increased educational and occupational opprtunities; but it is through CONSUPTION

Question 26

What three forms does cultural capital take?

Answer 26

Embodied state, objectified state, and institutionalized state

Question 27

What is the embodied state

Answer 27

The form of knowledge that resides within us

Question 28

What is the formally first thing we aquire in the ebodied state?

Answer 28

Language

Question 29

What is the objectified state?

Answer 29

,Material objects we use to indicate ur social class

Question 30

Objectified state highlights how in our society we use and buy items to express not necesarrily class, but?

Answer 30

Status

Question 31

What is the institutionalized state?

Answer 31

The way society measures cultural capital

Question 32

What is an example of institutionalized capital?

Answer 32

Phd degree gives person higher prestige than graduate and undergraduate degree