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Knowledge and power are always linked in the regulation of social conduct. - Answers True
Dispersed power - Answers The way students sit in a classroom is an example of:
Synthetization - Answers Which of the following is not part of the circuit of culture?
Synthetization
Representation
Identity
Production
hegemony - Answers What is a pervasive, all-encompassing power that is cultural, coercive and
economic?
What is the key to a social constructionist approach to culture - Answers meaning is produced
by people
True - Answers Representation is the way we give things meanings
Hall's definition of culture emphasizes - Answers meaning
process
symbolic
What approach to culture would analyze the Mona Lisa - Answers Traditional Approach
Culture helps to read the message of a facial expression - Answers true
in the traditional view of culture, which of the following is an example of "low culture".
opera
winking
shakespeare
comic books - Answers comic books
signs of culture - Answers semiotics is the study of
Saussure and Barthes were concerned with the science of - Answers meaning
, representation means all of the following except:
connects meaning and language to culture
stands in the place of
the production of meaning through language
to remember where you came from - Answers to remember where you came from
what is the role of language in cultural representation - Answers language is the privileged
media that allows us to give meaning
What is a "social constructivist approach" to culture - Answers meaning is produced
The advertisement for Panzani represents - Answers Italianness
If I say that blue jeans represent a particular casualness, is that connotation or denotation -
Answers connotation
Denotation is - Answers the literal or objective meaning of a sign
what is discourse - Answers the production of knowledge through language
Traditional approach - Answers sum of the great ideas, as represented in the classic works of
literature painting music and philosophy - the 'high culture' of an age
i.e. theaters, museums, etc
Modern approach - Answers i. widely distributed cultural artifacts that ordinary people use in
their everyday lives (mass culture or popular culture)
i.e. usually through mechanical production
identify - Answers who I am
emotion - Answers what I am feeling