Review Questions II

Question 1

What are the 3 characteristics of a dichotomy?

Answer 1

1. There is an opposition/binary between the two subjects
2. The two are mutually exclusive
3. Culture places a higher social value on one over the other

Question 2

What is Modernity and what are the 4 main effects that have come about because of it?

Answer 2

Patterns of social life that emerged post-feudalism (industrialization and enlightened principles)

1. Increase scientific rationality
2. Society increasingly rationalizing industrialization
3. Secularism
4. Increase in leisure time

Question 3

What is secularism?

Answer 3

The separation of church from most other institutions such as state, science , education etc.

Question 4

Describe the concept of “Translation of Knowledge”

Answer 4

Taking expert knowledge (usually biomed) and decontextualizing the information from its intended purpose; usually it will be REcontextualized in the form of expert knowledge but used in a new field or means for which it was not designed
–> Helps destabilize idea of “Human Body”

Question 5

What are the 3 intersecting processes of consumer culture?

Answer 5

1. Production
2. Marketing
3. Consumption of goods and services

Question 6

What are the 3 defining characteristics of Consumer culture?

Answer 6

1. Consumption is continuously encouraged for more production (supply/demand)
2. Consumption as a source of social status differentiation for all social groups
3. Consumption is a major source of our pleasures and dreams
   (Helpful readings- London Riots or Jordan/Nike)

Question 7

What has the body become within late modernity?

Answer 7

A market of commerce and vehicle of consumption which is used to symbolize “self”
ex. I consume popculture and wear nerdy shirts to represent my “self”

Question 8

According to Shilling’s Body Projects the body is what?

Answer 8

• Something to work on or at (unfinished)

- Part of the individual’s self identity