Pop culture freaks chap 4 5 and 6 Flashcards
For good or for evil, the capitalist system has forced millions of women out of a position of economic dependence on husband or father into the position of independent wage-earners, often responsible for the livelihood not of themselves alone, but also of family dependents. The tragedy of the situation is that, whilst we have forced these millions of women to walk along the
wage-earning road, we have not unbound their feet! … By continuing to brand the woman as the social inferior of the man, unworthy of any share in the direction of the country, upon the economic development of which we have made her directly dependent; by providing for
her much less technical training and higher education than for the boy; by telling her that she has slighter faculties and smaller needs, and that nothing but toil of routine character is expected from her. what is this an excerpt from?)
(“The Awakening of Women,” 1913`
Beatrice porter
Gender is a social ____
Conmsstruction
For individual gender means ____ for society gender means ___?
SAMENESS, DIFFERENCES
What is a social construction?
An ordering system that is based on social reality, but often implying a biological or other basis. Social constructions are powerfully real and shape behavior and social relationships.
Women constitute just over half of the US population, but they possess far less than their share of the…?
available social
power
In 2016, women run only ___ of the Fortune 500 companies
21
In 2015, women made up ____% of all lawyers but were only ____% of partners in U.S. law firms
38, 18
Men outnumber women at a rate of 76% vs. 24% in all sectors of employment for ___ and ____as of 2009
Science and engineering
Another important issues facing gender relations in the social world is ???
Privilege-specifically the ways that men benefit from privileges that they can take for granted.
Power
What is Power?
A force that exerts influence over the behavior of individuals and groups. In some conceptions of power it is held by specific actors. In other conceptions it is independent of actors and moving in multiple directions.
What is Privilege?
The benefit of being situated at the top of a social hierarchy. The concept is associated particularly with the work of Peggy McIntosh, who wrote about white privilege and male privilege.
What is the Blechdel test?
A method for testing the status of women in a film, attributed to a comic strip by Alison Bechdel. To pass the Bechdel test, a film must have 1) at least two or more female characters who 2) have names and 3) talk to each other about something other than men.
What is Hypermasculinity?
A cultural process of ramping up the standards and representations of masculinity
What is a descriptive analysis?
A method of studying a social issue or practice when there is very little already known. Rather than beginning with a specific theory, the goal is simply to map out the prominent landmarks of a given social world.
How are Black women represented in music videos is an example of what kind of analysis?
Descriptive
What is Interviewing creators?
A method of studying the production process by asking questions of the professionals involved.
In 2 parent heterosexual households
Men typically control the remote T O F
Men see TV watching as an Group experience T O F? experience
Women see TV watching as a INDIVIDUAL experience T O F
Women more likely to watch something they don’t like to spend time with spouse or kids T O F
Men more likely to change channel but ask if that’s ok first T O F?
T,
F- INDIVIDUAL
F- SOCIAL EXPERIENCE
T
F- THEY CHANGE WITHOUT ASKING
What is Culture war?
a media-grabbing
multi-vocal conflict within and across institutions that has consequences for the kinds of demands that institutions make on public policy.
What are Digital Divide
Interpretive strategies?
Ordered systems that guide the process of making meaning out of cultural consumption. Formal aesthetics can serve as an interpretive strategy, but so can other ideological systems such as feminism, Christianity, or libertarianism
What is digital divide?
A form of inequality related to access to, and understanding of, the Internet and its associated technologies, such as smartphones and tablets. Digital divides have been identified, and debated, along class lines, gender lines, and racial lines, among others
Women at least half of the audience for the culture industry but they are far less than half of the representations found within the industry T O F?
T
_____ is the keyword we can use to describe the treatment of women by the culture industry.
Annihilation
What are the four forms of suicide highlighted in emelie durheims forms of suicide?
Egoistic, altruistic, anomic, fatalistic
What does emile durheim say for why crime is necessary?:
Generates norms
produces: social boundries, and rituals that generate solidarity
generates: innovation, and social progrss
What does Neil Shyminsky argue in comics, and comic-themed film and tv?
superheroes are meant to represent modern masculinity but their costumes make them fraks,
and the feminitinty of the sidekick distracts us from the queerness of the superghjero himself
What is a quantitative content analysis?
AS method of studying discernible representations and examining the relationship between one type of representation ad another, or between onetype of representation and some other quantifiable issue
What LGBTQ group dominates the roles in Hollywood?
Gay white men
Who was using music for social change in the 1970s? what group?
Gay and lesbian artists
Compared to the music made by the folkways in the 1970s today’s gay themed music is less….?
Political
Mainstream pop focuses on what two themes?
Relationships and sex
What are production surveys?
A method of studying the perspectives of culture industry proffessionals using short, often closed ended questions
What are queer readings?
Audience driven re-imaginings of straight story lines that insert queer use exsisting cues from the story to insert queer relationships
What genre is one of the strongest forms of queer readings?
Slash fiction
What were the findings in audiences responses to will and grace(2008)
- Obliviousness: found more in straight responses
anger: foun more in gay responses
acceptance: found across groups
Popular culture geatures more gay images than ever before but is still lagging….?
Far behind other areas of American life
Is there enough data collected to really understand either the gay experience working within the culture industries or the differences between gay and straight audiences?
no
What is the definition oif anomie?
A state of normlessness in which existing social norms have broken down and have not yet been replaced by new ones
What is the definition of dominant ideology
: A set of ruling ideas and social norms that legitimize existing power relations making a challenge to the system unlikely.
What is the definition of queer
People who embrace the word queer typically are looking for an open-ended and inclusive identity, focus more on the fluidity of sexuality, and are less interested in mainstream culture.
What is gender identity?
a person’s internal sense of being male or female, whatever those words mean to them.
Gender identity
the ways that person presents their sense of gender identity, and the ways they play with identity.
Transgender, Trans Man (F2M), Trans Woman (M2F)
Some words that are typically preferred terms for trans people.
The collection of processes that trans people go through to embrace their gender
Transition
A term used to refer to folks who do not identify as trans. (cis privilege)
Cisgender
Should gay culture be more political? 2015 Report Fox: Excellent 45% CW: Good 45% ABC: Good 32% NBC: Adequate 28% CBS: Adequate 27%
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What is Interpretive sociology?
A social science paradigm that focuses on the ordering power of culture
What is social construction?
An ordering system that is based on social reality but often implying a biological or other basis. Social constructions are powerfully real and shape behavipor
What is Medical model of disability?
A paradigm for understanding disability that focuses on bodily imparuiment and the capacity for the medical system to treat such impairment
What is social mode of disability
A paradigm for understanding disability that focuses on social order and inequality and treats disability as one of many systems that create hierarchies of human bodies
How does peter Conrad define medicalization?
Defining a problem inmedical terms using language to describe a problem adopting a medical framework to understand a problem or using a medical intervention to treat it
What are the five modes of representation of disability in cinema?
- savants
- isolation and pathology
- self sacrice
- asexual and dependent
- violent
In relation to methods, what is a thick description?
Method of interpretive sociology
- interpretive
- focuses on social discourse
- peserves passing details
being at the micro level
“My primary goal is to make the invisible history of disability visible. This is a political objective and a guiding metaphor for the film. Many people with disabilities are segregated from society in institutions and nursing homes; just as the visual record of disability is hidden from view, so too are many lives. Opening the archive and releasing images of disability can establish the context for a scene of collective and politicized remembrance.” (2009, 21)
who said this?
Laura kissel
What are organizational reports?
A method of studying occupational sectors–such as the culture industries–using the internal analysis produced by professional associations and unions.
What is an autoethnography?
A method of examining the social world while paying attention to the uniqueness of the social vantage point of the researcher
What are three key elements of autoethnographies?
- First person narrative
- Reflexive analysis
- Acknowledgement of alternative perspectives
Disability is a ____ and ___category that is confused for a medical one.
Cultural and political
The disabled population of the US is surprisingly low.
Wrong it is surprisingly high
Disabled people face unique difficulties in the culture industry professions.
Disabled audiences confront a digital divide but use technology to critique misrepresentation.
Disabled people are ____ and ____in popular culture.
Underprepresentedand misrepresented
Disabled audience confront a ___ ____ but use technology to critique misrepresentation
Digital divide
Susan bordo analyzes images of men in advertising in her book and she identifies two images of increasingly objectified men which are?
Rocks and leaners
According to up date labor statistics women are the majority inamerica, what percent of women are there in our scoety?
50.8%
First wave feminism produced?
Suffarage and the right to vote for white women in the 1920s
Scond wave feinism focused on?
Educaqtional and occupational equality
Third wave feminism brought more attention to?
Poor women women of color, queer trans folk
What form of prime time tv offers the ost parity?
Reality tv
out of the nine films nominated for the 2011 oscars, how many passed the bechdel test?
2
The malboro man defines life?
On his own terms and cannot be tamed by women or society
What commercial is a prime example of hypermasculinity?
the old spice man commercial
In relation to rocks and learners, how are leaners described?
feminized, passive, more inviting to viewer
In relation to rocks and leaners how are rocks described?
Active muscular and powerful men
What is the definition of cultural studies?
an interdisiplenary field of academic studies that draws on the methods of textual anaysis long used by literary scholars and historians. Applies them to wide array of texts
What does the director of dreamworlds say about music videos and women?
systematically reduce womens lives to the roles they play in mens sexuality
What are the three findings from how black women are portrayed in music videos?
- stereotypes and controlling images
- counter controlling images
- images of ambivilence
In a study looking at how women and men are revied in rolling stone how are men reviewed?
Performers role in hstory, artistic vision and solitrity creativity
In a study looking at how women and men are revied in rolling stone how are women reviewed?
autheticity, emotionality and hnesty
What is the term used to describe when a cultural object move up through the cultural straftificationsystem?
valorization
What is an example of valorization?
Kate chopin’s the awakening
What is participation culture?
To go beyond consuming culture on social media to actually creating it
In 2016 women ran only 21 of the fortune 500 companies, whats that ercent?
4.2%
What are the four forms of sucide in relation to emile durkheim’s theory?
Egotistic, altruistic, anomic and fatalistic
Durkeim agrees thaqt sucide tends to increase in periods of ____?
Anomie
What isn anomie?
if a society is in flux- economically, socially, politically- people may not know how to live
What are two important factors in reducing anomie?
Intergration and regulatio
What is an example of society producing social boundries,
the clothing we wear, the media we watch to co construct our identities`
What is an example of culture producing rituals that generate social solidarity?
people who share identitiy categories have solidarity with each other
What is an example of pop culture generating innovation?
The world wide web, social media platofirms etc
What is an example of pop culture generating social progress?
Youtube becoming a platform to increasingly put new, more inclusive narratives into the sociaql world
What is focualts approach to power and sexuality?
That every relationship is a power relationship and is rooted in micro level interactions
If power isnt found in people where is it found?
In society amd counterpatterns that push against the current
What does the celluloid closet examine?
How hollywood has lagged behind for many years
What is Gender identity?
A persons internal sense of how they feel about their own gender
Gender expression is?
The way one express their gender identity and the ways they play with gender identity
What is Transition?
A process trans folk go to to fully express gender ifdentity
What does Neil Shyminsky argue that sidekicks serve as a role for in comics?
As a foil for the failed masculinity of the superhero, the feminity of the sidekick distracts us from the queerness of the superhero
What group tends to dominate the roles and the off screen hiring for LGBTQ folks in hollywood?
Gay white men
Did gay activism start in the music industry later or earlier than the movement?
Earlier with folkwats records
Is mainstream music still as political today as it was in 1970?
No and it sounds more like mainstream pop and focuses on same issues: relationshoips and sex
What are queer readings?
Audience driven re imaginings of straight (or non sexually identified) story lines tha insert queer use exsisting cues from the story to insert queer relationships
What is one of the strongest forms of queer readings?
Slash fiction
In the audience responses to will and grace
- Obliviousness was found more in _______ respondents
- Anger was found more in ____ respondents
- Acceptance found in _____ ______
- Straight’
- Gay
- All audiences
