Across
- 1. : The way in which a particular concept or idea—the signified—is expressed
- 2. : Theory that focuses on economic class, labor, and power
- 4. : The shortened word commonly used for popular
- 6. : The process by which culture is passed down and reinforced through repetition
- 7. : A perspective that questions universal truths and emphasizes difference
- 10. : Pop culture as a kind of collective
- 11. : The translation of a text from one medium into another
- 16. : Most of the victims worked on this floor and above, making escape harder
- 20. : The process by which audiences actively shape cultural meaning
- 23. : Opposite of elite or high culture, often seen as everyday entertainment
- 25. : The traditional practices and customs of a specific geographic region
- 28. : Shared meanings, symbols, and practices that make up everyday life
- 29. : A smaller group within a larger culture that shares its own beliefs, values, styles, or interests that set it apart from the mainstream
- 31. : Culture clashes with mass produced popular culture
- 34. : Theorist Karl ________ is associated with class struggle and ideology
- 36. : Something pop culture both reflects and helps to shape
- 38. : Exterior feature that collapsed or was unusable, contributing to victims' inability to escape
- 40. : Workers had previously organized this type of protest to demand safer conditionsladder : First responders who arrived but couldn’t help everyone because their __ reached only the sixth floor
- 41. : Produced on large scale for a broad audience
- 42. : Pop culture helps shape individual and group
- 43. : Historically associated with the elite
- 45. : Approach that examines how women are represented and how gender roles are reinforced
- 46. : Industry in which the Triangle workers were employed
- 48. : What pop in pop culture stands for
- 49. : A framework of ideas that helps people interpret the world
- 50. : A category of related signs
- 53. : An economic mode of production in which private property is allowed but the means of production are owned communally and managed by a democratically elected government
- 56. : Everyday items and practices studied in pop culture
- 57. : A set of practices or tastes that are seen as common or widely shared by the majority
- 58. : The dictionary definition
Down
- 1. : How connected we are to something the more we feel
- 3. : The set of ideas that reflect and maintain dominant power structures
- 5. : An indirect reference to something
- 8. : A method for understanding how people create and interpret meaning through systems of signs
- 9. : An approach that studies how colonization and its aftermath shape culture
- 12. : Popular culture is often described as constantly
- 13. : Word association to large system of understanding
- 14. : The process of turning information into a form that can be stored, understood, or communicated
- 15. : The group of people who interpret and give meaning to popular culture
- 17. : The process of interpreting a message
- 18. : From Marxist theory, the working class
- 19. : The study of signs and symbols, especially in communication
- 21. : Culture creates meaning, meanings are circulated, reinforced and at the time contested
- 22. : Another word for the way people live together and make meaning
- 24. : The event sparked outrage and helped fuel the ___ movement, demanding better rights
- 26. : From Marxist theory, the social class that owns most of society’s wealth and its means of production
- 27. : After the fire, both owners were put on trial but ultimately found
- 30. : In Marxist economic theory, the economic organization of a society
- 32. : Doors were tragically ___, preventing escape
- 33. : Serving as a typical example of something
- 35. : Studying popular culture involves asking how things create
- 37. : This unsafe structure melted in the flames and failed workers trying to escape
- 39. : Cultural products that are not mass-produced, but circulated in smaller groups
- 44. : Systems of thought that explain how/why the world works
- 47. : Cultural products like music, movies, and fashion that are widely consumed
- 51. : Study of signifying systems
- 52. : An economic system in which the means of production are collectively owned and private property does not exist
- 54. : Medium through which pop culture is widely shared
- 55. : The majority of the Triangle fire victims were ___