WorksheetsPreview the public sphere learned in the eighth week.
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 8mins
The role of the media is to promote discourse in the public domain.
True
False
Where do the categories of "public" and "private" originate, according to Habermas?
Ancient Greece
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Rome
Ancient Mesopotamia
The two most important things that have been trading since the Middle Ages are news and commodities.
True
False
In the Middle ages, what or who was the only "public person"
God
Moses
The peasants' feudal lord
The King
Trade and government were polarized before the 18th century.
True
False
Whose concept of the "social" does Habermas quote?
Walter Benjamin
Hannah Arendt
Theodor Adorno
Martin Heidegger
What was the precursor of the bourgeois public sphere?
The representative public sphere
The governmental public sphere
The monumental public sphere
The literary public sphere
The two key institutions in the public sphere are salons and cafes.
True
False
What is Habermas's definition of the public sphere?
"The sphere of private people come together as a public"
"The public constituted from private citizens acting publically
"The sphere of public men acting in private for public benefit"
"The public formed together from the private sphere"
In the modern period, what did the occupational sphere become?
An independent, quasi-public realm
An incoherent private sphere
An instant success
An oppressive constraint on social labor
Which economic policy was for Habermas associated with the "refeudalization" of society
Neomercantilism
Monetarism
Laissez-faire
Mercantilism
Habermas gave a synonym for neomercantilism as interventionism.
True
False
What is the key principle of the modern mass media?
Divide and conquer
Condescension
Condensation
Integration
Which two elements interpenetrate in the modern world, according to Habermas?
State and society
Popular and public
Home and factory
Media and culture
What was the corollary of state authority?
Publicity
Civil society
The Public
The private realm
What was the site of representative publicity?
The King's body
The court
The public
The town
Where and when did a political public sphere first arise?
In France in the fifteenth century
In Scotland in the eighteenth century
In Great Britain in the eighteenth century
In Italian city states in the thirteenth century
Which authors does Habermas analyze as central to any understanding of the public sphere?
Arendt, Adorno and Weber
Kant, Hegel, Marx, Mill and de Tocqueville
Schmitt, Koselleck and Benjamin
Aristotle, Plato, Constant, d'Argenson and Montesquieu
Which other important institution also consolidated itself in the eighteenth century?
The court
The conjugal family
The masses
The domestic confraternity
What is the public sphere?
People gather together to discuss and determine social issues freely.
People gather together to determine dinner.
The area in a shopping mall or train station.
No right answer
