COMM 10 QUIZZES QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Goffman makes an effort to define the terms that are the basis of his analysis. All of the following are terms that are central to his dramaturgical analysis, except: - Answer-observation deck Goffman feels that the impressions that a person makes in a social setting and the inferences the audience draws when observing a person are ultimately unimportant aspects of social interaction. - Answer-False What is the most important part of a "front" in a convincing social performance? - Answer-that it be consistend and stable to define the situation Hall categories theories of representation into all of the following, except: - Answer-presumptivist In the constructionist view, systems of meaning never change. - Answer-False For Ferdinand de Saussure, the sign was made up of which two elements. - Answer-signifier/signified In the chapter "Popular Culture: Media Masculinity" bell hooks thinks that the tendency of television and film to represent men as wandering loners who are disconnected from others, stoic, and emotionally distant is a good thing in that it helps young boys imagine themselves as not dependent on any one else. - Answer-False hooks analyzes Good Will Hunting and sees it as an exception to a broader trend in popular culture's representations of men. Why? - Answer-because the main character ultimately chooses love and connection at odds as opposed to standard patriarchal tropes In the first few pages of the reading, Robin Lakoff lays out a central paradox that women find themselves in. Which of the following best represents that paradox. - Answer-women are socialized to use "feminine" speech that is not assertive or confident yet are then not taken seriously as full contributors to society The Chicano speech that Anzaldua describes has no dialectical variation - Answer-False Which of the following best describes Anzaldua's conceptualization of the border - Answer-a zone of cultural contact that extends into psychological and spiritual dimensions