Exam 2: The Critical Approach

Members of the Frankfurt School were interested in what they termed the _______________________ : the mass production of popular culture,administered from above,that creates needs in people that they would not otherwise have.

Which of the following rejected the distinction between high and low culture?

The approach that explores the ways in which economics,culture,and politics interact to create social reality is called Marxism.

The source of profit for the capitalism is the difference between the value of the labor power as purchased and the action value produced by the laborer,which Marx refers to as ___________________.

According to the Frankfurt School,the culture industry affects consumerism through advertising by:

McDonaldization,the term used to describe the proliferation of prepackaged,instant,easily consumable products and lifestyles,would be associated most closely with which of the following concepts?

A group maintains _________________ when it is able to create a worldview that other people and groups actively support,even though that worldview may not be in their interests.

Which of the following is (are)a political site(s)?

For the most part,organizations do not exercise power coercively but engage in unobtrusive control.

The ideology of work/life balance,as promoted by corporations,can create discursive closure by:

Which of the following modes of ownership and production did Marx not consider exploitative?

Frankfurt School members were interested in all of the following,except:

A Sandals resort vacation is an example of how the "culture industry" operates to rationalize a product or experience.

_______________ is a system of attitudes,beliefs,ideas,perceptions,and values that structure reality.

According to the critical perspective,organizations are:

Researchers in the ______________________ tradition take popular culture as a serious object of study,examining the complex ways in which it structures social reality.

According to all three schools of thought (Marx,Frankfurt School,and cultural studies),there is always and inevitably resistance to capitalist control.

The spread of corporate ideologies and discourses to every aspect of our lives,including who we are as human beings has been labeled _________________________.

In organizational decision making,the choice of one set of ethics over another is most often based on its ethical superiority.

Marx's theory of _______________________ analyzes history according to different modes of production.