Roland Barthes Flashcards

1
Q

Most scholars think the same basic patterns they study in religious traditions are all over _.

A

culture

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2
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Football, food, sexuality, holidays

A

Culture

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3
Q

Barthes assumes with Lincoln that interesting myths occur _

A

outside of religion

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4
Q

1950s literary theorist, critic. Died in the 1980s

A

Roland Barthes

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5
Q

Barthes constructs a new understanding of the word mythology

A

Reality construction

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6
Q

Uses the reality construction lens to study the 1950s _.

A

French culture

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7
Q

Discovers that myth is all _.

A

over the place

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8
Q

His new theory on where myth is created by taking a subject (person, institution) and adding _ to it

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new qualities

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9
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Barthes says to find what is crucial about myth-making, you need to see how this happens on an _.

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every day level (news, media, popular culture)

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10
Q

The new qualities that you attach to something have a lot to do with a person’s _.

A

political preference

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11
Q

Pizza gate became a myth that other chains of pizza places were having child sexual slavery and there was _.

A

no empirical evidence

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12
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Fake news, corporate news

A

Pizza gate

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13
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The pizza parlor was taken as a subject and then added _ to it.

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new qualities

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14
Q

Those new qualities from pizza gate had a lot to do with certain _.

A

political preferences

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15
Q

Barthes thinks that powerful mythology is not only found in religions but in _.

A

everywhere else

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16
Q

The myth outside of religion is just a important with myth _.

A

inside of religion

17
Q

Atheist, people thought he would remove churches, religions

A

Jefferson

18
Q

People thought he would take away democracy and become king

A

Adams