Chapter 3: Culture and Media

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Across
  1. 3. Taking into account the differences across cultures without passing judgment or assigning value
  2. 4. A perspective stating that culture is a projection of social structures and relationships into the public sphere, a screen onto which the film of the underlying reality or social structures of our society is shown
  3. 6. Any formats or vehicles that carry, present, or communicate information; including newspapers, magazines, books, posters, advertisements, etc.
  4. 7. Confusion and anxiety caused by not knowing what words, signs, and other symbols mean
  5. 9. Individuals and groups who traditionally have been dismissed as weirdos at best and deviants at worst that have some shared ethos or character
  6. 13. One form of nonmaterial culture that is a system of concepts and relationship; a way of understanding cause and effect
  7. 16. Most broadcasting companies are privately owned in the United States, are supported financially by advertising, and are therefore likely to reflect the biases of their owners and backers. Additionally, six major companies own 90% of the media. This is an example of what?
  8. 17. The act of the public taking back the media or use the media for their own ends; or said differently, it is a form of guerrilla cultural resistance that involves seizing control of the media
  9. 22. Guidelines or sets of expectations that suggest particular modes of behavior and understandings that are not universal or natural and shape our notions of social categories, identities, or roles
  10. 23. Moral beliefs or abstract cultural beliefs
  11. 24. The belief that happiness and fulfillment can be achieved through the acquisition of material possessions
  12. 25. The various processes through which we internalize society’s values, beliefs, and norms
  13. 26. A historical process in which a dominant group exercises ‘moral and intellectual leadership’ throughout society by winning the voluntary ‘consent’ of popular masses. Said differently, this is the ability to get others to go along with the status quo because it seems like the best course or the natural order of things
Down
  1. 1. culture One form of culture that includes values, beliefs, behaviors and social norms
  2. 2. One form of culture that is a part of our constructed, physical environment
  3. 5. Consumer culture has increased capitalist concerns about producing consumer-citizens. The production of consumer-citizens begins with what?
  4. 8. The sense of taken-for-granted superiority in the context of cultural practices and attitudes. The belief that one’s own culture or group is better than others, as well as the tendency to view all other ones from the perspective of one’s own
  5. 10. Illustrated in a two-dimensional diagram with horizontal axis depicting short and long-term effects, and a vertical axis representing deliberate or intended effects. We have four types of these: short term intended – long term intended – short term unintended – long term unintended. One example of a short term deliberate type is a child seeing an ad for Cocoa Puffs and while on a shopping trip with their mum or dad begs for a box of Cocoa Puffs – they go “coo-coo for cocoa puffs”
  6. 11. Expectations based on cultural beliefs
  7. 12. The swapping out of one set of meanings, values, and/or languages on the fly
  8. 14. A frequent critique of the media centers on the representation of women. An example of this is Jean Kilbourne’s Killing Us Softly: Advertising’s Image of Women, in which she examines the ways in which women are maimed, sliced, raped, and otherwise deformed in advertising images. This reflects what?
  9. 15. On December 22, 1941, two weeks after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Time magazine ran an article with the headline “How to Tell Your Friends from the Japs.” This is an example of what?
  10. 18. The sum of the social categories and concepts we recognize in addition to our beliefs, behaviors, and practices; in other words, everything but nature
  11. 19. A unique measure of culture that is as close to a pure, unmediated reflection of culture as we can get. It has few rules, and no institutions attempt to directly influence our choices, unlike almost every other aspect of culture from food to film to fashion. For example, North (West)
  12. 20. Getting others to do what you want through the use of force
  13. 21. When it takes time for culture to catch up with technological innovations