Quiz 6

Question 1

Visual Culture

Answer 1

Material artifacts, buildings and images, etc.

Question 2

Multidisciplinary in nature

Answer 2

Many academic disciplines are integrated in the study of visual culture

Question 3

Culture

Answer 3

Frequently juxtaposed against nature. What humans have done or added to nature by their inventiveness and labor.

Question 4

Base

Answer 4

Material resources, means of production the economy.

Question 5

Superstructure

Answer 5

“Spiritual” phenomena: ideology, art, religion, science and philosophy.

Question 6

Ideology

Answer 6

Shared set of societal values and beliefs

Question 7

Hegemony

Answer 7

Dominant ideologies are always in flux

Question 8

Civilization

Answer 8

Culture synonym with broader and evaluative connotations.

Question 9

Freud

Answer 9

Civilization requires repression of certain instincts and desires

Question 10

Traditional levels of culture

Answer 10

High, middle-brow, and low.

Question 11

High-Culture

Answer 11

Royalty, aristocracy, upper middle class

Question 12

Middle-brow

Answer 12

Bourgeoisie or middle class & lower middle class (petit bourgeoisie)

Question 13

Lower culture

Answer 13

Proletariat or working class & underclass (lumpenproletariat)

Question 14

Kitsch

Answer 14

Visual artifacts judges to have little or no aesthetic value

Question 15

Camp

Answer 15

Recodes kitsch as valuable, sees value through its status in invoking class standards of bad taste - “connoisseur of kitsch”

Question 16

Connoisseur

Answer 16

Master of “taste” - rules of subculture

Question 17

Cultural Capital

Answer 17

Pierre Bourdieu(like money)

Question 18

Folk Culture

Answer 18

Rural societies (in decline)

Question 19

Mass culture

Answer 19

Modernity, industrialization & mass communication

Question 20

Mass

Answer 20

Made by professional designers and artists

Question 21

Popular

Answer 21

Made by common people for masses

Question 22

Anthro/Socio methodology

Answer 22

Participant observation

Question 23

Pluralist culture

Answer 23

many cultures; a flexible, dynamic process

Question 24

Trans- or cross-cultural

Answer 24

Looking for commonalities

Question 25

Intercultural

Answer 25

ways cultures interact

Question 26

Cultures in conflict

Answer 26

cultures destroyed, undermined or transformed by violent or other means.

Question 27

Culture & Barbarism

Answer 27

Cost of culture often exploitation; critics often wary of “celebratory” approach to history and criticism

Question 28

Multiculturalism

Answer 28

Need to incorporate values and ideas which do not reflect merely the dominant group ideology; dangers of tokenisms.