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Some Notes About Popular Culture Flashcards

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True or False: Pop Culture is never the product of a solitary artist but always emerges from a collective activity generated by interlocking networks of cultural creators.

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True

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True or False: Popular Culture is produced, consumed, and experienced within a context of overlapping sets of social relationships.

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True

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refers to the aesthetic products created and sold by profit-seeking firms operating in the global entertainment market

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Popular Culture

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Culture that is well-liked (demonstrated through sales)

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Popular

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Icons or media products that are globally ubiquitous and easily recognized the world over

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Popular

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Commercial media that is thought to be trivial, tacky or lowest common denominator mass culture

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Popular

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Belonging to the people folk culture

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Popular

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is richly symbolic, invested with meaning and significance

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Culture

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True or False: The meanings attributed to culture are simply given and are not the product of human invention, socially not constructed and not agreed upon among a demonstrably large number of society members.

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False (The meanings attributed to culture are never simply given but are the product of human invention, socially constructed and agreed upon among a demonstrably large number of society members)

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True or False: For Culture to be sensibly understood it must be embodied in some kind of recognizable form.

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True

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True or False: In theoretical takes on popular culture, functionalist culture functions as the social separation that generates discord and conflict within human groups and societies.

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False (functionalist culture functions as the social glue that generates solidarity and cohesion within human groups and societies)

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True or False: In theoretical takes on popular culture, contemporary collective rituals, football games, parades, pep rallies serve to forge emotional bonds of recognition, identity, and trust within communities and social groups.

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True

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True or False: In theoretical takes on popular culture, it prohibits strangers to communicate with each other in public

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False (it allows strangers to communicate with each other in public)

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A strong benefit of group membership (society, a cultural group, or subcultural group) is __________ one perceives from taking part in social gatherings.

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Emotional Energy

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True or False: In the importance of rituals, if people share the same scared emblems and holy names, the same doctrines, they know they belong to the same ritual community.

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True

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True or False: In the importance of rituals, they cannot identify with one another as members of a group that has feelings of collective solidarity and strength.

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False (they can identify)

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True or False: In the importance of rituals, even short conversations are mini rituals that affirm ones identity in a select group and boost our emotional energy.

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True

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True or False: In the importance of rituals, sacred symbols are deemed not useful.

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False (sacred symbols also tell us who is not a part of our group)

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True or False: In theoretical takes on popular culture, critical the ascendance of certain kinds of pop culture cannot be explained primarily in terms of their ability to reflect and reinforce the enormous economic and cultural power of the mass media industry.

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False (critical the ascendance of certain kinds of pop culture can be explained)

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True or False: In the theoretical takes on popular culture, involves top down model with pop culture as a form of domination.

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True

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True or False: In theoretical takes on popular culture, interaction approach does not emphasizes the power that informal processes like word of mouth and peer influence enjoy in the cultural marketplace.

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False (it emphasizes)

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True or False: In theoretical takes on popular culture, our consumer taste doesn’t affect those around us.

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False (it deeply affects those around us)

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perhaps the biggest motivator to consume popular culture authenticity

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Popular Culture and the Search for Authenticity

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can refer to a variety of desirable traits credibility, originality, sincerity, naturalness, genuineness, innateness, purity, or realness

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Authenticity

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can never be truly authentic always requires a close conformity to the expectations set by the cultural context in which it is situated

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Popular Culture and The Search For Authenticity

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the performace of authenticity always requires a close conformity to the expectations set by the cultural context in which it situated

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Popular Culture and the search for Authenticity

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seeking authenticity, lacking in mainstream consumer culture

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The turn to subcultures

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offer an alternative identity

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Subcultures

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How to demonstrate membership?

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purchase the appropriate consumer goods (in opposition to mainstream of course)

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by the advent of the 80s, americans believed in consumption as salvation, as the only way they knew shop till you drop, sped till the end, buy till you die, buying was the new time religion, and the shopping mall or wal-mart its cathedral of consumption

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Consumerism

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propels the insatiable belief that we need what we do not have

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Consumerism

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a fundamental frame or reference for relating to oneself, to others, to the environment as a whole

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Consumerism

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the principle socializing force behind this way of being in the world is television and advertising

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Consumerism

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The democratization of Popular Culture

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Digital Technology and the Media Industries

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Digital Divide

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Digital Technology and The Media Industries

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True or False: Popular Culture is not good or bad at least not until it is interpreted.

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True

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True or False: Popular Culture has no inherent meaning.

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True

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True or False: Popular Culture is another vehicle for class reproduction.

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True

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