Ben Castros

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Across
  1. 3. The overthrow of a social system predicted by Marx
  2. 5. An economic system in which the means of production are collectively owned
  3. 7. The quality of being genuine or historically grounded
  4. 9. Cultural traditions passed down within a community
  5. 11. A specialized category within a broader genre
  6. 12. The feeling of disconnection workers experience under capitalism
  7. 14. Experimental art positioned outside mainstream culture
  8. 17. Cultural institutions built upon an economic base
  9. 19. The theorist who introduced repressive and ideological state apparatuses
  10. 21. The linking of ideas or movements for strategic purposes
  11. 22. A philosophy or method of teaching reflected in classroom design
  12. 23. The adoption of cultural elements by another group
  13. 26. The basic unit of meaning within a semiotic system
  14. 28. A ranked system placing some cultural forms above others
  15. 29. The class that owns the means of production in capitalism
  16. 34. The principle underlying iconic signs
  17. 36. Dominance maintained through consent rather than force
  18. 37. An economic system reflected in competitive rule-governed sports like baseball
  19. 39. A term often used to describe culture of the lower classes
  20. 41. Marx’s collaborator on early communist theory
  21. 43. A social system in which men hold primary power
  22. 44. The concept expressed by a sign
  23. 48. The profit gained from paying workers less than the value they produce
  24. 49. So widespread that it seems to be everywhere
  25. 51. The degree to which something is widely liked or consumed
  26. 53. A type of sign whose meaning is arbitrary and learned
  27. 54. Turning cultural practices or objects into market goods
  28. 55. The direct connection that defines indexical signs
  29. 56. The form a concept takes within a sign
  30. 57. A system of beliefs that shapes how we understand the world
  31. 58. In semiotics, the disguising of history as something natural
Down
  1. 1. Systems of rules that shape how meaning is understood
  2. 2. The process of co-opting resistance into mainstream systems
  3. 4. Difficult to clearly define or pin down
  4. 6. A chain or sequence in which signs gain meaning through position
  5. 8. A sign directly connected to its meaning through cause or association
  6. 10. The process by which individuals internalize ideology
  7. 13. A privileged group associated with high culture
  8. 14. Made by skilled craft workers often by hand
  9. 15. Media outlets that shape public discussion of popular culture
  10. 16. The theorist associated with the concept of hegemony
  11. 18. A category of related signs that gain meaning through difference
  12. 20. A sign that resembles what it represents
  13. 24. The idea that systems of oppression overlap and interact
  14. 25. A longing for an idealized past often tied to cultural debates
  15. 27. Actions taken by subordinate groups against dominant power
  16. 30. The process of producing meaning through signs
  17. 31. A body of works considered culturally or intellectually superior
  18. 32. The study of signifying systems and meaning production
  19. 33. The literal or dictionary meaning of a sign
  20. 35. The theorist who defined myth as the disguising of history as nature
  21. 38. The theory that economic organization shapes society’s structure and ideas
  22. 40. A quality often associated with refined taste and high culture
  23. 42. A philosophy of history centered on class struggle and economic forces
  24. 45. The belief that gender roles are socially created rather than innate
  25. 46. A term used to describe unclear boundaries in defining pop culture
  26. 47. The belief that gender traits are naturally fixed and biological
  27. 50. Cultural or emotional associations attached to a sign
  28. 51. Workers who sell their labor because they do not own production
  29. 52. Standards used to evaluate quality or value