complete solution 2025/2026
short answer - correct answer ✔short answer
communication - correct answer ✔1/4
-distinctive social actions (singular)
-practises (type of action)
2/4
-That deploys signs and signals
(Gestures/ words spoken and written visual representation/Can also be non-verbal)
-In social interaction
3/4
-In order to produce a shared or common symbolic understanding
(Latin root of communis - to make common)
-Of the world through the sharing of culture which makes the world meaningful.
4/4
-Communication creates the social or society in the form of shared intersubjectivity or sense of social
reality
culture - correct answer ✔1/6
- Beliefs and values
2/6
- Form of power - knowledge that maps the social world along existential/normative/ utopian
dimensions
3/6
, - Maps the social world as "Moral Space" (Charles Taylor) within which people orient themselves in a
quest for the good life
4/6
- Habitus (Pierre Bourdieu) - Culture a durable set of "inculcated dispositions" that enact and embody
cultural beliefs and values
5/6
- Ritual - structures and stylized social actions and performances that also manifest cultural beliefs and
vaules
6/6
- Culture in both verb and noun
technology - correct answer ✔1/4
- As an artifact or object
- Technology as an artifact can be physical (a computer) or immaterial (the computer's coding or
operating)
2/4
- Technique or "know how"
3/4
- Techne
- Philosopher Martin Heidegger used "techne" to evoke the power of technology as the symbolic and
material practice of casting the world into sense
4/4
- "Technology - practice" (Pacey)
media - correct answer ✔1/6
- An agency or means of doing somethings, i.e. means of communicating
2/6