Vocab (EXAM 1)

Question 1

stereotypes

Answer 1

oversimplified preconceptions and generalizations about members of social groups “…that provide meaning and organize preconceptions inferences and judgments about persons identified as belonging to a particular social category.”,

Question 2

difference

Answer 2

refers to a characteristic of identity such as gender, race, or age, ways that we vary from each other

Question 3

dominant groups

Answer 3

tend to have more economic and cultural power

Question 4

non-dominant groups

Answer 4

tend to have less economic and cultural power

Question 5

matter

Answer 5

(v) to be important, (n) concern

Question 6

communicating

Answer 6

dynamic nature of processes that humans use to produce, interpret and share meaning, complex continuous and contextual, constitute our social reality

Question 7

discourse

Answer 7

systems of texts and talk that range from public to private and from naturally occurring to mediated forms

Question 8

social identity

Answer 8

the ways in which individuals and collectivities are distinguished in their social relations with other individuals and collectivities

Question 9

social identity groups

Answer 9

gender, race, class, ability, age, sexuality

Question 10

social constructionist

Answer 10

school of thought 1. identity is relational 2. human beings develop their identities primarily through communicating

Question 11

socialization

Answer 11

the total set of experiences in which children become clear about norms and expectations and learn how to function as respected and accepted members of a culture

Question 12

essentialism

Answer 12

assumptions that social differences stem from intrinsic, innate, human variations unrelated to social focus

Question 13

social identity theory

Answer 13

describes human tendency to label self and others based on individual and group identity

Question 14

privilege

Answer 14

difference in society based on social identity, coined by Peggy McIntosh to refer to male privilege, later extending to white privilege

Question 15

internalized oppression

Answer 15

accepting these ideas and believing negative stereotypes about one’s own group

Question 16

colorism

Answer 16

hierarchy of skin color

Question 17

narrative

Answer 17

how a story unfolds, considers what people, places, and events are included and excluded, what mythic or cultural elements are considered

Question 18

myth

Answer 18

mutually held/shared cultural beliefs, often operates in binaries, i.e. right and wrong, good and bad, villain and hero etc.

Question 19

media text

Answer 19

any mediated artifact intended to transmit meaning (e. song, advertisement, TV show, movie, social networking post, etc.)

Question 20

media literacy (basic)

Answer 20

the ability to access, evaluate, and communicate messages

Question 21

media literacy (in depth)

Answer 21

the process of understanding “the sources and technologies of communication, the codes that are used, the messages that are produced, and the selection, interpretation, and impact of those messages

Question 22

polysemy

Answer 22

something that can have multiple meanings (depending on receiver and context)

Question 23

satire

Answer 23

the use of humor or irony for the sake of cultural or political critique

Question 24

inter-textuality

Answer 24

accumulation of meanings across different texts, where one image refers to another, or his its meaning altered by being read in the context of other images

Question 25

eugenics

Answer 25

application of “scientific knowledge” towards the goal of creating a genetic “master” race

Question 26

symbolic annihilation

Answer 26

the symbolic representation of women (and other marginalized groups) as not valued and approved of in American society; consists of absence, trivialization, and condemnation of women (and other groups) in US in media.

Question 27

sex roles

Answer 27

social guidelines for sex-appropriate appearance, interests, skills, behaviors and self-perceptions

Question 28

hegemony

Answer 28

unspoken power by consensus, “upholds dominant class, ethnic and gender interests

Question 29

colorblind ideology

Answer 29

whereby a minority’s success is “used to deny the existence of institutional racism and to ‘prove’ that US society is reasonably fair” and inclusive