Exam 3: Culture and Media

Gramsci's concept for the historical process in which a dominant group exercises moral and intellectual leadership by voluntarily receiving the approval and consent of the masses is known as:

Acronyms and emoticons such as LOL,;-),and LMAO demonstrate that:

If you are a member of a subculture,like the goth subculture,you can be sure that the meaning of certain words and the behavior of the members:

Karl Marx asserted that culture:

In the United States,six major companies,including Disney and Time Warner,own slightly more than ____________ percent of the media.

Margaret Mead wrote Coming of Age in Samoa (1928),where she found that women in Samoa engaged in and enjoyed casual sex before they were married.This finding challenged America's:

Define subcultures and discuss two examples of a subculture,one that you belong to and practice and another that you do not.

Until Europeans came into contact with non-Westerners,they tended to see their culture as:

According to Herbert Gans,what determines the content of news stories?

Discuss the research on naming that you read for class.To what extent do gender and race seem to matter?

Part of what we learn in elementary school is to obey authority,follow the rules,and learn the importance of being on time.Because these values are important to the functioning of the capitalist system,Gramsci would call this:

What is consumerism and how does it influence U.S.culture?

Why did industrialization change European culture so dramatically in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?

How was Dove's Campaign for Real Beauty a response to feminist critiques of the media's messages to girls and women?

When your friend returns from a study abroad,he reports back to you on the very different foods that people in his host country ate.He explains that to them it's normal,that people in different cultures do things differently,and that he learned not to make value judgments.This is known as:

The word culture derives from the Latin word colere,which means:

Galileo's discovery that the earth revolved around the sun rather than standing at the center of the universe is an example of:

During the 1800s,culture was defined by Matthew Arnold as an ideal,something that is opposed to the real world in which we live.Sociologists today define culture as:

Stanley Lieberson,a sociology professor at Harvard,studied culture using first names.He found that names:

Although some criticize rap music for its violent lyrics,many rappers defend it by saying it emerges directly from their experiences.Those rappers who make these claims are invoking: