MCD EXAM – EXAMPLE QUESTIONS
1) Explaining the following concepts in 5 lines:
a. Burden of representation
b. Liberal feminism
c. UNCRDP
d. Circuit of Culture
e. Exnomination
f. Cultural hybridization
g. Cultivation theory
h. 3 Component Theory of Stratification
i. Stereotyping trough iconography
j. Queerbaiting
2) What’s the term for:
a. Author who wrote about creating a narrative about yourself with biographical
features.
b. An introspective, personal and reflexive process that happens before posting; post or
not, content remains accessible to subject because personal connection.
c. These stereotypes are about the function of the character in the text’s structures.
d. Italian movie style.
e. One’s position within a power hierarchy via relatively objective indicators of power,
prestige, and control over resources, such as income, wealth, education level, and
occupational prestige.
f. How you present yourself. It’s the presentation of the self that expresses a gender
identity or role.
g. Set of practices by Hall considering stereotypes.
3) In the seminar ‘Sexual diversity’ we talked about audiovisual history. Explain and talk about 3.
4) Rock music:
a. Talk about 3 types of people who help the rock industry be masculine.
b. How would Connell describe this?
c. How would you contest this, what strategies?
5) What is the difference between social types & stereotypes? Illustrate with an example.
6) What is the difference between self-identity & social identity {Giddens}? Illustrate with an
example.
7) Siapera talked about pointers to create diversity. Give and discuss these pointers.
8) Give and discuss 3 genres referring to social class in film history.
9) Discuss hybridization and its types.
10) Give and discuss the types of classes identified by Kendall.
11) In what ways can symbolic annihilation happen?
MCD EXAM – EXAMPLE QUESTIONS 1
1) Explaining the following concepts in 5 lines:
a. Burden of representation
b. Liberal feminism
c. UNCRDP
d. Circuit of Culture
e. Exnomination
f. Cultural hybridization
g. Cultivation theory
h. 3 Component Theory of Stratification
i. Stereotyping trough iconography
j. Queerbaiting
2) What’s the term for:
a. Author who wrote about creating a narrative about yourself with biographical
features.
b. An introspective, personal and reflexive process that happens before posting; post or
not, content remains accessible to subject because personal connection.
c. These stereotypes are about the function of the character in the text’s structures.
d. Italian movie style.
e. One’s position within a power hierarchy via relatively objective indicators of power,
prestige, and control over resources, such as income, wealth, education level, and
occupational prestige.
f. How you present yourself. It’s the presentation of the self that expresses a gender
identity or role.
g. Set of practices by Hall considering stereotypes.
3) In the seminar ‘Sexual diversity’ we talked about audiovisual history. Explain and talk about 3.
4) Rock music:
a. Talk about 3 types of people who help the rock industry be masculine.
b. How would Connell describe this?
c. How would you contest this, what strategies?
5) What is the difference between social types & stereotypes? Illustrate with an example.
6) What is the difference between self-identity & social identity {Giddens}? Illustrate with an
example.
7) Siapera talked about pointers to create diversity. Give and discuss these pointers.
8) Give and discuss 3 genres referring to social class in film history.
9) Discuss hybridization and its types.
10) Give and discuss the types of classes identified by Kendall.
11) In what ways can symbolic annihilation happen?
MCD EXAM – EXAMPLE QUESTIONS 1
