Midterm Crossword Puzzle COM 224

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Across
  1. 1. position that gender is the product of environment and nurture rather than nature
  2. 5. those who own the means of production and purchase the labor power of others
  3. 8. harmful cultural norms tied to dominating others and resolving conflict through violence
  4. 12. learned and shared understandings that link signifiers and signifieds
  5. 14. reflective approaches that seek to unmask ideology that naturalizes oppression
  6. 16. a reading that understands the message but rejects it
  7. 18. constructed understandings of masculinity examined as socially produced and maintained
  8. 23. the concrete thing in the world that a sign identifies
  9. 27. the process by which the recipient interprets a message
  10. 29. workers who do not own the means of production and must sell their labor power
  11. 30. the cultural associations and additional meanings attached to a sign
  12. 32. the relationship between signifier and signified having no inherent natural connection
  13. 33. applying critical theory as a lens to bring aspects of culture into focus for scrutiny
  14. 34. a second-order semiological system that disguises history as nature
  15. 38. pop culture characterized as lacking deeper meaning and enjoyed primarily for fun
  16. 40. making something strange by reading against the grain and questioning foundations of beliefs
  17. 42. signs that resemble the thing they represent
  18. 43. the way a dominant group secures consent by making its beliefs the norm
  19. 44. pop culture defined by a limited shelf-life and ephemerality
  20. 47. feeling disconnected from one’s labor because one is treated as a cog in a machine
  21. 48. signs directly connected to their referents in a causal or pointing relationship
  22. 50. a reading mixing acceptance and rejection while still understanding the message
  23. 51. social expectations overlaid onto the sexed body
  24. 52. thinker who argued popular culture products are standardized
  25. 53. postcolonial theorist associated with analysis of colonialism’s impacts
  26. 54. the study of signifying systems or rule-governed systems of meaning production
  27. 58. the cutting edge consisting of experimental works that challenge conventional thinking and tastes
  28. 60. field challenging disability as an individual defect and studying how disability is defined and represented
  29. 62. alternating between languages or language variants (or adopting/disguising an accent) to facilitate an agenda
  30. 63. the adoption of the practices or customs of one group by members of another
  31. 64. theorist tied to constructivist feminist thought about gender
Down
  1. 1. conflict between those who own the means of production and those who sell their labor
  2. 2. the process through which individuals internalize a particular set of values
  3. 3. founder of the first academic department of popular culture
  4. 4. thinker who co-developed the critique of the culture industry
  5. 6. everything that rests on the base including institutions and the way people think
  6. 7. meaning based on relation and position in a sequence or arrangement
  7. 9. profit accumulated by owners beyond what they pay for labor and raw materials
  8. 10. the ability to appreciate nuance and subtlety
  9. 11. how sexual identity, orientation, and desire are produced, maintained, and policed
  10. 13. presenting history as natural and encouraging acceptance of the status quo as inevitable
  11. 15. forms of stratification interwoven rather than separate
  12. 17. pop culture conceived as choices reflective of an authentic identity
  13. 19. being historically grounded and sincere expressions of a way of life
  14. 20. meaning based on difference among signs within a category
  15. 21. the idea that the base influences everything else in society
  16. 22. the dictionary definition or most literal meaning of a sign
  17. 24. the things that people do and make in a particular time and place
  18. 25. group of intellectuals critical of mass culture and contemporary capitalism
  19. 26. pop culture activities construed as unproductive time-wasters or leisure escapism
  20. 28. theorist who defined myth as disguising history as nature
  21. 30. the mass production of cultural forms for non-Native or general consumers
  22. 31. signs where the relationship between signifier and signified is arbitrary and learned
  23. 35. the economic organization of society
  24. 36. a reading where the message is interpreted as intended
  25. 37. cultural organization where the means of production are collectively owned and private property does not exist
  26. 39. the process by which the sender uses signs to package a meaning
  27. 41. the appearance of individuality in standardized cultural products through minor variations
  28. 45. field challenging Eurocentric paradigms and focusing on self-determination of racialized groups
  29. 46. pop culture being central to people’s lives yet devalued as trivial
  30. 49. belief that men and women naturally think and act in particular ways due to biology
  31. 55. a culture in which men have historically held positions of power and authority
  32. 56. the culture of the masses associated with the lower classes
  33. 57. emphasizing social construction of normalcy and deviancy
  34. 59. creation of material objects partly or entirely by hand by a skilled craft worker
  35. 61. pop culture that evokes an emotional experience with a physical component