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Midterm Review POPC 1600
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1
A Gucci purse and a Walmart purse have the same exchange value
False
True
2
The ability of dominant groups in a society to exercise control over weaker groups. Needs a consenting populace.
Displaced Meanings
Hegemony
Manifest Destiny
Imperialism
3
Wealth is NOT a requirement for cultural capital.
True
False
4
Cultural capital can be broken down into three sections: Objectified State, Institutionalized state and Embodied State
False
True
5
Most genres have sub-genres
True
False
6
What is Semiotics the study of?
Oppositional binaries
Popstars
Signs
Commodities
7
The Superstructure is:
All of the above
The political and ideological institutions
Social relations outside of the base
family, community, religion, education, the arts
8
Genre is
None of the above
A way of classifying popular culture texts into groups and subgroups
All of the above
Texts within a genre share a thematic and stylistic properties
9
Because gender is a complex cluster of signs we can even engender objects.
False
True
10
The notion that America has a god-given right to expand the frontier is known as Manifest Destiny
False
True
11
The Frankfurt School loved mass media
False
True
12
Connotative Meaning is what we associate with a text or asign
True
False
13
Heterosexuality is a marked catergory
False
True
14
Which of these is NOT one of the three basic categories of culture?
American
Folk
Elite
Popular
15
What serves as a symbolic bridge to the "real" and the "ideal"?
Cultural Myths
Hegemony
Superhero movies
Commodities
16
Cultural knowledge that acts as a currency in our culture and alters our experience is called Cultural Capital
True
False
17
The standardized conception or image of a specific group is called
Orientalism
Poaching
Colonialism
Stereotyping
18
Genre is NOT a style of media
False
True
19
Who said "the ideas of the ruling class are, in every age, the ruling ideas."
Michel Foucault
Karl Marx
Jeff Brown
Antonio Gramsci
20
Another term for Orientalism is “Othering”
True
False
21
_____ are compensation techniques for showing the male body.
Masculine Symbols
Otherings
to- be-looked-at-ness
American Ideologies
22
The Use Value of an object is how much that object can get in an open market.
True
False
23
Where do genres occur in popular culture?
music
literature
film
all of the above
24
Which of these hegemonic ideals does Barbie most obviously NOT represent?
Consumerism
Heterosexuality
Manifest Destiny
Beauty
25
Which of these is an example of second order of signification?
book = thing to read
skull & crossbones = death
dog = animal
rose = flower
26
Hegemony is total
True
False
27
The Department of Popular Culture at BGSU was created in the 1970s by ______.
Ray Browne
Mary Ellen Mazey
Hugh Grant
Karl Marx
28
Gender is a____It is something we put on. A stylized representation of acts, gestures, mannerisms, and pre
Act
Lie
Performance
Charade
29
Which of the following are compensation techniques for showing the male body?
Colors
Cars
Guns
None of the above
30
Audiences experience popular culture by:
Downloading it to their brains
Passively taking it in
Copying it word for word
Actively engaging with it and repurposing it
31
What are Cultural Myths?
The Gap between the real and the ideal
The Process whereby the proof of the ideal is removed from the here and now
The Golden Era
Foundational beliefs that influence how we understand or think of the world
32
Which of these terms is NOT associated with Laura Mulvey’s psychoanalytical theory of the gaze
Narcissism
Scopophilia
Commodity Fetishism
Sadistic
33
Cultural Capital CANNOT be commodities
True
False
34
Displaced Meaningis a process whereby the proof of the idea is removed from the "here and now”
True
False
35
Which of the following is not an example of transvestism?
Mulan dressing like a man and becoming Ping.
Eddie Redmayne playing trans woman Lili Elbe in The Danish Girl.
RuPaul while not in drag.
36
If Men are seen as whole then Women are seen as:
Just Vibin'
Parts
Powerful
Phallic
37
The theorists of the Frankfurt School were most closely associated with which school of thought?
Feminism
Marxism
Orientalism
38
Which is an exmaple of nondiscursive action?
Thumbs Up
Thumbs Down
Wink
Blink
39
A sign is made up of signifier and signified.
True
False
40
What is an example of High Culture?
The Hunger Games
Beer
Jeans
Caviar
41
Performing gender within your assigned sex at birth is known as homeovestism
False
True
42
The Base is:
The ways, usually economic, that reproduce itself materially.
Cultural foundation, influences superstructure
All of the Above
A society’s means of material Production.
43
Genre conventions are
Tropes that happen over and over again (the formula)
New concepts that keep genres intersting
have limited view points
Media Oligopolies
44
Commodity Fetishism is
really boring
the invention of Ferdinand de Saussure
Wealth in societies understood as “an immense accumulation of commodities"
The Military Industrial Entertainment Complex
45
Gender is a complex cluster of signs and not natural.
True
False
