Week 4 Flashcards
What is nationalism?
Should be viewed in terms of religion and kinship than ideology.
What is Anderson’s concept of the nation-state?
An imagined community where there is no religion, it is print-capitalism and simultaneity is necessary.
Define community
a network of info flow or communication grids that can exist within and outside national boundaries.
What is Tomlinson’s definition of globalization?
The world is becoming a single social and cultural setting. There is a lot of interconnections and interdependence.
How does globalization effect the nation state?
Globalization can only be conceptualized through the lens of the nation state.
Define cosmopolitanism
Where the nation state is not the most important moral community.
Define diaspora
A deterritorialized community with a desire for media content that celebrates their emotional links to country of origin.
What is performing?
Everything is performing. Performing is to do something to a standard.
is vs as performance
Anything can be as performance. Things only is performance if it has a historical or social context.
Make believe vs make belief
Make believe is acting. Make belief is when you want people to believe that is who you are.
What is a ritual?
A way of conducting cultural analysis.
Explain the 3 levels of rituals.
- ritual is to the symbols it dramatizes as action is to thought
- integrates thought and action
- focus on ritual performances integrates our thought and their actions
What do rituals provide to society?
order, community and transformation
Explain traditions?
Relies on written records. Rituals invents tradition. Tradition has power and prestige.
Explain customs?
Comes from oral cultures. More flexible in nature.
What is a ritual specialist?
If there is s strong hierarchy specialists have authority. If it is weak rituals may be performed without a designated specialist.
What is discourse?
The social process of constructing meaning within a mutually understood set of rules.
What did Focault focus on?
How power worked its way though institutional techniques and discourses. Discourse produces certain kinds of subjects and knowledge. Nothing has meaning without discourse.
Define ideology
sets of social values, ideas, beliefs, feelings that make up a world view
Define interpellation
the effect of putting us in out place
Define subjectivity
an individuals personal thoughts and experiences, their own subjective way of seeing the world as distinct from general or universal experience.
What are the 3 kinds of discourse?
Residual
Dominant
Emergent
