Across
- 2. one of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs that means security of body, employment, resources, morality, family, health, and property (in class)
- 7. most important need on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, food, water, breathing, sleep (in class)
- 9. own the means of production and purchase the labor power of others
- 10. different ways in which a message is communicated (in class)
- 12. position where the recipient understands the message but rejects it
- 14. one of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs that means self esteem, confidence, achievement, respect of/by others (in class)
- 16. the things that people do and make in a particular time and place
- 19. ISA plays a central role in helping the ruling class achieve this
- 20. systems of communication
- 21. a type of model that means a circular process that begins with a speaker, message, medium, receiver, and feedback (in class)
- 23. a signs dictionary definition
- 24. a type of medium where a message is sent (in class)
- 25. they make a decision and are the ones putting it into action (in class)
- 26. type of signs that mean words or images that resemble the thing they represent
- 27. a theory that is a branch of gender and sexuality studies that emphasizes the social construction and maintenance of ideas of normalcy and deviancy
- 28. a type of study that takes the proposition that "one is not born, but rather becomes, a woman" and extends it to gender identity in general
- 30. a type of bias that means if the conclusion supports your existing beliefs you will rationalize anything that supports it (in class/bias reading)
- 32. a theory that seeks to understand the nature of gender inequality through a focus on the social roles played by women in relation to men, how they have developed, and the forces that maintain them
- 35. a type of analysis that is a method of examination of the text and its preferred method for media studies scholars (in class)
- 36. a type of culture that is a system where technology, industry, culture, and social change merge together as consumers are prepared to go to great lengths to get the media they want, when they want it (in class)
- 38. way in which a concept is expressed
- 41. a type of study that is an interdisciplinary scholarly discipline that focuses its attention on how disability has been defined and represented, and its consequences for individuals characterized as disabled
- 43. relationships of position, where one sign is in relation to others
- 49. is the idea that forms of social stratification such as race, class, sexual orientation, age, disability, and gender don't exist separately but are interwoven together
- 50. study of signifying systems, rule-governed systems of meaning production
- 51. type of signs that mean the relationship between signifier and signified is arbitrary and must be learned
- 52. practices, objects, and beliefs state a particular understanding of the world
- 55. associations attached to the sign that come from our culture or personal experience
- 57. groups such as bikers or skaters with values and norms different than the broader culture
- 58. a category of related signs (tennis, ping pong, racquetball)
- 59. one of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs that means morality, creativity, spontaneity, problem solving, lack of prejudice, and acceptance of facts (in class)
- 60. a type of bias that means you overestimate the likelihood of positive outcomes (in class/bias reading)
Down
- 1. culture in which men have historically held positions of power and authority
- 3. the sender of a message uses signs to "package" a meaning they wish someone else to receive
- 4. the idea of historical materialism
- 5. do not own the means of production and are forced to sell their labor power
- 6. one of the first models to recognize that media consumers are active participants in the process, both in what people choose to consume and how they react to it and based on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs (in class)
- 8. building blocks of any semiotic system
- 11. a pop culture pivot point that means how the meaning of one text is shaped by its connections with another
- 13. type of signs that may not look or sound like their signifieds but are directly connected in some way
- 15. a theory that concerns itself with the political, aesthetic, economic, historical, and social impact of European colonial rule around the world in the 18th through the 20th century
- 17. schools, religious institutions, the media, social clubs
- 18. a type of bias that means you overestimate the likelihood of negative outcomes (in class/bias reading)
- 22. the concrete thing out there in the world that the sign identifies
- 24. is an approach to culture that focuses on systemic racism, the ways racism is deeply entrenched in contemporary social structures
- 29. how the recipient of the message interprets it
- 31. one of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs that means friendship, family, sexual intimacy (in class)
- 33. position is a mixture of acceptance and rejection. The message is understood but not fully taken up
- 34. a type of relationship that refers to when individuals cultivate with actual human beings they will never meet or don't know on a personal basis (in class)
- 37. means multiple meanings (in class)
- 39. one of the five pop culture pivot points that means to be "true to yourself"
- 40. the city where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated (in class)
- 42. type of practices that means the things people make and do that convey meaning
- 44. the first thing you judge influences your judgment of all that follows (in class/bias reading)
- 45. a theory that means reflective approaches to cultural practices and artifacts that seek to unmask ideology that naturalizes oppression
- 46. can be thought of as a code specifying the social expectations that are overlaid onto the sexed body
- 47. the concept being expressed
- 48. the police, national guard, the military, the courts, the government
- 53. remembers the past as better than it was and expects the future to be worse than it will likely be (in class/bias reading)
- 54. position where the message is interpreted in the way intended
- 56. type of culture where practices and bodies of knowledge differ from the upper class (wine, opera literature) to the lower class (beer, pop music, novels by Stephen King)