intro to pop culture reading quiz 8/20

what are some examples of signifying practices

poetry, ballet, opera, fine art

what is the fifth way of defining popular culture

political analysis of gramsci. hegemony: how a dominant groups in society through a process of intellectual and moral leadership win the consent of the subordinate groups in society. texts and practices of pop culture move within compromise equilibrium

what are two things one can say about the U.S and pop culture

pop culture has been socially and institutionally central in America for longer and in a more significant way than in Europe the influence of American culture worldwide is undoubted

what is the neo gramscian hegemony theory

pop culture is a site of struggle between forces of resistance of subordinate groups in society and the forced of incorporation of dominant groups in society analyzes different types of conflict within and across pop culture

what is the main argument of the intro to pop culture

pop culture is in effect an empty conceptual category, one which can be filled in a wide variety of often conflicting ways depending on the context of use.

what do fiske and paul willis argue about pop culture

pop culture is what people make from the products of the culture industries mass culture is the repertoire, pop culture is what people actually make from it, actually do with it.

what will affect the connotations brought into play when we use the term pop culture

pop cultures absent/present other

what is the fourth way of defining popular culture

popular culture originates from the people

what is the main point about the debate about the relationship between postmodernism and pop culture

postmodernist culture is a culture which no longer recognizes the distinction between high and pop culture postmodernist culture claims that all culture is now postmodernist culture against the idea that all culture of commercial culture see little point in wasting time seeking out pockets of authentic folk culture to declare and defend as utopian moments of difference

what should any definition of pop culture include

quant dimension

what is structuralism

readers are locked into specific reading positions and there is little space for reader activity or textual contradiction

what are some examples of cultural text?

soap opera, pop music, comics

what determines mens being

social being determines their conciseness

what are the three reading positions

subordinate dominate negotiated

what is the second meaning of ideology

suggests a masking, distortion, concealment that works in the interest of the powerful against the interests of the powerless. the dominant class do not see themselves as exploiters or oppressors. the subordinate class does not see themselves as oppressed or exploited

what is the consumption of culture according to boudieu

the consumption of culture is predisposed, consciously and deliberately or not, to fulfill a social function of legitimating social differences

what does the introduction of the concept ideology suggest

the culture / ideology landscape is inescapably marked by relations of power and politics. it suggests that the study of pop culture amounts to something more than simple discussions of entertainment and leisure

what are the two things about the free concert in londons high park that are of interest to a student of pop culture

the event was popular and the extent of his popularity would threaten the class exclusivity of a high/pop culture divide

what makes ideology an important term in any understanding of the nature of popular culture

the fact that ideology has been used to refer to the same conceptual terrain as culture and pop culture

what is high culture

the result of an individual act of creation moral and aesthetic response

what does the mode of production of material life condition?

the social, political, and intellectual life process in general

what is materialism

the way society organizes the means of its economic production will have a determining effect on the type of culture that society produces, makes possible.

what is another aspect of pop culture that is suggested by neo gramscian

theories of popular culture are really thoeries about the constitution of the people argues that pop culture is contested site political constructions of the people and their relations to the power bloc

who produces the raw materials of pop culture

they are commercially provided

what is the result of the base/superstructure relationship

they implicitly or explicitly support the interests of the dominate groups who socially, politically, economically, and culturally benefit from the economic organization of society

what do those looking at pop culture from a neo gramscian perspective

they see it as a terrain of ideological struggle between dominant and subordinate classes and cultures

how can one use hegemony theory

to locate the struggle between resistance and incorporation as taking place within and across individual pop texts and practices

what is althussers main contention for ideology and the fourth meaning of ideology

to see ideology as a material practice ideology is encountered in the practices of everyday life and not simply certain ideas about everyday life the way in which certain rituals and customs have the effect of binding us to the social order, a social order which is marked by enormous inequalities of wealth, status, and power. certain activities like Christmas offer pleasure and release us from the usual demands of social order ideology works to reproduce the social conditions and social relations necessary for the economic conditions and economic relations of capitalism to continue

ideology is used interchangeably with culture itself and especially pop culture true or false

true

what is the third meaning of ideology

uses the term to refer to ideological forms usage is to draw attention to the way in which texts always present a particular image of the world texts take sides and are ultimately political and attempt to win readers to particular ways of seeing the world

what are the four current meanings of popular

well liked by many people, inferior kinds of work, work deliberately setting out to win favor with the people, culture actually made by the people for themselves

what do all of the definitions of pop culture have in common

whatever else else pop culture might be, it is a culture that only emerged following industrialization and urbanization

what two cultures did Britain have

a common culture a separate elite culture

what is popular culture

a mass produced commercial culture requires fleeting sociological inspection to unlock what little it has to offer

what three things happened as a result of industrialization and urbanization which had the effect of redrawing the cultural map

industrialization changed the relations between employees and employers the urbanization produced a residential separation of classes the panic engendered by the french revolution. the fear that it might be imported into britain. encouraged successive governments to enact a variety of repressive measures aimed at defeating radicalism

what is the sixth way of defining pop culture

informed by the debate on postmodernism

what is pop culture always defined as

it is defined implicitly, or explicitly, in contrast to other conceptual categories: folk culture, mass culture, dominant culture, working class culture.

what is the second way of defining pop culture

it is the culture which is left over after we have decided what is high culture a definition of pop culture as substandard culture

what is the third way of defining pop culture

mass culture pop culture is commercial culture (mass produced for mass consumption) (consumed at brain numbing passivity) Americanization

what is pop culture an escape of

our utopian selves. it is a collective dream world

what is a crucial concept in the study of popular culture

ideology

what is the first meaning of ideology

ideology can refer to a systematic body of ideas articulated by a particular group of people

what is the key concept of neo gramscian perspective

articulation

what is the fifth meaning of ideology

associated with barths ideology operates mainly at the level of connotations, the secondary, often unconscious meanings, texts and practices carry, or can be made to carry struggle to restrict connotations, to fix particular connotations, to produce new connotations. ex: conservative party suggesting that socialism of the Labour party is synonymous with social, economic and political imprisonment. the broadcast was trying to fix the connotations of the word socialism this example of the operations of ideology attmepts to make universal and legitimate what is in fact partial and particular, an attempt to pass off that which is cultural as something which is natural

what is the most common division of pop culture

between the study of texts and lived cultures and cultural practices

what two terms describe the division of high and popular culture

clear and fixed

What does Bourdieu argue about cultural distinctions

cultural distinctions are used in this way to support class distinctions. taste is a deeply ideological category, it functions as a marker of class

what are the three used of the word culture

culture can be used to refer to a general process of intellectual, spiritual and aesthetic development culture suggests a particular way of life: people, period, group (traditions like Christmas) (lived cultures, cultural practices) culture can be used to refer to the works and practices of intellectual and especially artistic activity. the texts and practices whose main function is to signify, produce or be the occasion for the production of meaning. (signifying practices)

what is the first definition of popular culture

culture that is well liked by many people could examine sales of objects and attendance to shows

what does the definition of culture and pop culture depend on

depends on there being in lace of a capitalist amrket economy

what is the fear of Americanization related to and what is under threat

distrust of emerging forms of pop culture the traditional values of high culture or the traditional ways of life of a temped working class

what are the different moments within a popular text or practice

dominant emergence residual

what is an example of how ideology can refer to power relations

feminist speak of the power of patriarchal ideology, and how it operates to conceal, mask and distort gender relations in our society. presents partial truths as the whole truth

what is the main theory of the book

how the changing terrain of pop culture has been explored and mapped by different cultural theorists and different theoretical approaches