POPC 1600 Review

Famed BGSU scholar known as "the Father of Popular Culture"

• Jeremy Wallach

• Chuck Coletta

• Ray Browne

• Jeffrey A. Brown

Segment of culture that incorporates the activities of everyday life

• Popular Culture

• High Culture

• Mass Culture

• Folk Culture

The overall system of values and traditions shared by a group of people

• Society

• Culture

• Ideology

• Laws

In a multicultural society, which aspects of the dominant culture are the norm?

• Traditions

• Values

• Beliefs

• All of the Above

Ideology is the process by which the set of values and beliefs that bind individuals together in society becomes naturalized. 

• True

• False

Words, images, objects, and behaviors that convey meanings determined by the specific codes and systems in which they appear. 

• Symbols

• Emojis

• Semiotics

• Signs

The study of signs, first developed by Ferdinand de Saussure and brought into the twentieth century by French scholar Roland Barthes. 

• Semiotics

• Signology

• Symbols

• Structuralism

Economic ideology based on the writings of Karl Marx, which states that capitalism is an unequal system based on the exploitation of workers. 

• Communism

• Socialism

• Marxism

• Capitalism

Land, raw materials, technology, skills, and knowledge used in labor. 

• Relations of production

• Forces of production

• Means of production

• Ways of production

Control and domination of one group or idea over others, often without their awareness.

• Dominant Culture

• Hegemony

• Ideology

• Marxism