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American Pop Culture Quiz
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|Raymond Williams says this _______is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language. |
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|A. popular |
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|B. culture |
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|C. mass |
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|D. sociology |
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|Answer Key: B |
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|Which of the following is NOT one of the ways of understanding ideology that Storey (2009) discusses? |
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|A. Ideology can refer to a systematic body of ideas articulated by a particular group of people |
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|B. Ideology reveals the reality of domination from those in power and those who are |
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|C. Ideology operates mainly at the level of connotations, the secondary, often unconscious meaning that texts and practices carry,|
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|D. Ideology is encountered in the practices of everyday life and not simply in certain ideas about everyday life. |
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|Answer Key: B |
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|Question 3 of 10 |
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|Which of the following is NOT one of the definitions of popular culture. Popular culture is: |
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|A. The culture that is left over after we have decided what is high culture |
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|B. An authentic culture that originates from 'the people' |
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|C. A site of struggle between the 'resistance' of subordinate groups and the forces of incorporation operating in the interests of|
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|D. A culture which emerged during feudalism |
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|Answer Key: D |
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|Which of the following is NOT one of the purposes of the Storey (2009) book? |
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|A. It is about the theorizing that has brought us to our present stage of thinking on popular culture |
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|B. It is about exploring the historically fixed set of popular texts and practices that are the objects of popular culture |
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|C. It is about how the changing terrain of popular culture has been explored and mapped by different cultural theorists and |
|different theoretical approaches. |
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|D. It is about introducing readers to the different ways in which popular culture has been analyzed and the different popular |
|cultures that have been articulated as a result. |
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|Answer Key: B |
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|Question 5 of 10 |
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|Which of the following statements is NOT culture from the perspective culture and civilization tradition of Matthew Arnold? |
|Culture is |
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|A. The ability to know what is best |
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|B. What is best |
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|C. The mental and physical application of what is best |
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|D. The pursuit of what is best |
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|Answer Key: C |
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|According to Matthew Arnold, the social function of culture is to: |
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|A. Police the disruptive presence of the raw and uncultivated masses. |
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|B. Provide an all-encompassing pattern for living |
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|C. The material and nonmaterial attributes necessary for people to carry out a collective life |
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|D. Challenge cultural and social authority |
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|Answer Key: A |
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|According to the culture and civilization tradition, which of the following is NOT one of the purposes of education in terms of |
|culture? |
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|A. To civilize the working class for subordination, deference and exploitation |
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|B. To prepare the middle-class children to the cultural power that is to be theirs |
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|C. Training to resist the influence of mass culture |
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|D. To develop skills in cultural relativism and the pluralistic approach to cultural meaning. |
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|Answer Key: D |
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|According to the Leavisites, which of the following was NOT a cause or symptom of the cultural decline: |
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|A. Advent of Industrial Revolution |
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|B. Rise of Mass Democracy |
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|C. Advertising and how it is consumed |
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|D. Unquestioning assent to authority |
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|Answer Key: D |
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|Question 9 of 10 |
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|Which of the following is a point in the mass culture debate? |
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|A. The majority choose second- and third-rate cultural texts and practices instead of the texts and practices of high culture |
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|B. Popular culture serves a benign function for socializing people into the pleasures of consumption in the new |
|capitalist-consumerist society |
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|C. Without high culture, America is under threat from Gresham's Law of culture. |
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|D. All of these options are correct. |
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|Answer Key: D |
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|Question 10 of 10 |
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|Which of the following is NOT one of the assumptions that the culture and civilization tradition sought to confirm? |
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|A. cultural decline |
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|B. cultural difference |
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|C. the need for cultural relativity |
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|D. the need for cultural deference |
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|Answer Key: C |
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Which of the following does Culturalism stress?

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|MACROBUTTON HTMLDirect |A. structure | |
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|MACROBUTTON HTMLDirect |B. the popular | |
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|MACROBUTTON HTMLDirect |C. human agency | |
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|MACROBUTTON HTMLDirect |D. education | |
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Which of the following theorists identified that there was a 'good' popular culture of the working class in the 1930s?

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|MACROBUTTON HTMLDirect |A. Hall and Whannel | |
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|MACROBUTTON HTMLDirect |B. Hoggart | |
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|MACROBUTTON HTMLDirect |C. Thompson | |
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Which of the following theorists provided the basis of Culturalism by identifying a social definition of culture as a particular way of life?

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|MACROBUTTON HTMLDirect |D. Williams | |
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Which of the following theorists identified class as a historical phenomenon and provided an approach to culture that included a history from below?

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|MACROBUTTON HTMLDirect |D. Williams | |
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Which of the following theorists developed a category for 'good' popular culture?

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Which of the following is NOT a level of culture identified by Williams?

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|MACROBUTTON HTMLDirect |B. recorded culture | |
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|MACROBUTTON HTMLDirect |C. culture of selective tradition | |
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|MACROBUTTON HTMLDirect |D. mass culture | |
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The ability individuals have to be active in their own choices, and to make choices and act in a way that can change structure/society, refers to:

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Which of the following statements about Culturalism is NOT true?

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