University of Texas, Arlington

POLS 2312

1)Culture helps to read the message of a facial expression -

2. Hall’s definition of culture emphasizes all of the following except:
3. What is the key to a social constructionist approach to culture?
4. Representation is the way we give things meanings.
5. In the traditional view of culture, which of the following is an example of “low culture”?
6. What approach to culture would analyze the Mona Lisa?
7. Saussure and Barthes were concerned with the science of                                   .
8. What is a “social constructionist approach” to culture?
9. What is the role of language in cultural representation?
10. Semiotics is the study of                           .
11. Representation means all of the following except:
12. If I say that blue jeans represent a particular casualness, is that connotation or denotation?
13. The advertisement for Panzani represents                                     .
14. Saussure and Barthes were concerned with the science of                      
15. Denotation is                                                                 
16. What is discourse?
17. The way students sit in a classroom is an example of:
18. Knowledge and power are always linked in the regulation of social conduct.
19. What is a pervasive, all-encompassing power that is cultural, coercive and economic?
20. Which of the following is not part of the circuit of culture?
21. According to David Grazian, where does popular culture emanate?
22. All of the following are approaches to Popular Culture described by David Grazian except:
23. Why does Grazian discuss Rihanna’s “SOS (Rescue Me)”?
24. In the “art worlds” approach, Howard Becker describe the way popular culture is a product of collective activity. Which of the following does popular culture require in this approach?
25. Which of the following is not one of Grazian’s five senses of the term popular culture?
26. Which of the following popular culture objects is best viewed from a functional approach to popular culture?
27. According to Emile Durkheim, what is the function that religion provides people?
28. What function do sports in major cities serve? (i.e. functionalist approach)

29. What law eliminated caps on the total number of media outlets that one entity can own?
30. Why does Karl Marx describe ideology as a camera obscura?
31. According to Daniel Rushkoff,                        are the social currency of this generation.
32. Why does Grazian think it is important to explore popular culture through an interaction approach?
33. What is the main emphasis of the interaction approach to popular culture?
34. How is the social self-constructed?
35. Museums cannot display                         .
36. Which of the following is NOT an example of how the physics of sound affects culture?
37. According to Grazian, a reflection theory of popular culture must be a reflection of
38. What are collaborative circles?
39. With so much uncertainty in the culture industries, what strategy do culture industry firms use to face this uncertainty?
40. Since there are far more bombs than blockbusters,                              drives film production to overcome uncertainties.
41. What is the key input boundary in the culture industries?
42. Choosing an A-List producers such as JJ Abrams, Joss Whedon, Steven Spielberg, or James Cameron is part of a(n)                                                                                       .
43. Why does Grazian say the term cultural omnivore fits many people in the upper class?
44. What helps determine taste?
45. Which of the following is NOT an example of conspicuous consumption?
46. What pseudoscience derived the terms lowbrow and highbrow?
47. According to David Grazian, nothing is truly authentic, as a result we can only                             for authenticity.
48. Who led the PMRC?