Exam 13: Media and Culture Theories: Meaning Making in the Social World

According to Irving Goffman, advertising offers hyperritualized representations of social action.

Mead used the example of a baseball team to illustrate how people routinely learn _______.

Social constructionism argues that people maintain significant control over their cultures.

According to social construction of reality, ________ are objects expressly designed to impart subjective meaning.

Goffman's frame analysis argues that although people have the capacity to reframe their experience on an ongoing basis, we maintain the impression that our experiences are constant and routine. We do this by _______.

Sociologist Erving Goffman developed symbolic interactionism to provide a systematic account of how we develop and use expectations to make sense of everyday life situations and the people in them.

Advertising strategies that encourage people to attach certain symbolic meanings to products and to experience them as real attributes of those products are making an effort to _______.

According to frame analysis, when your playful wrestling with your sibling turns serious, you have downshifted your frame of the situation.

Both behaviorism and idealism rejected the possibility of human agency, the idea that individuals could consciously control their thoughts and actions in some meaningful and useful way.

Social constructionism is a theory that argues that ____.