The word “appropriation” is often used by cultural critics as a way to highlight power relations in an equal society.

1. The word “appropriation” is often used by cultural critics as a way to highlight power relations in an equal society. True orFalse

2. Social organizations that establish patterns of behavior for particular organized purposes are institutions.  These institutions reinforce our belief systems.  The criminal justice system would be one.  Give two others.

3. Addressing gender, race and class are specific ways to understand how there are social differences that interact and more broadly define each of us.  The defining word for this is?

4. An institution is defined as the control of religious, education and media institutions, the elite attempt to sway the people that the hierarchical social and economic system is natural and unchangeable. True or False

5. Critical theorists define “ideology” today in the same way that Marxists did as referring to ideas imposed on the proletariat by the bourgeoisie in order to control the subservient classes. True or False

6. Queer theory focuses on the instability and fluidity of gender and sexuality.  True or False

7. Influential corporations and business leaders after WWII began to worry that the U.S. might fall into depression, they turned to the idea of consumerism.  What new medium helped advance this idea of consumerism?

8. in Chapter 1 from the textbook Douglas Kellner speaks about a particular famous action film wherein he makes the comment that some would argue that the violent resistance in the film to social authority glamorizes brutal masculine behavior and use of physical violence to solve social problems.  What specific film was he addressing here and who was its star? 

9. According to Douglas Kellner, media images help:

  A.

Shape our view of the world.

  B.

Shape our deepest values.

  C.

Shape what we consider good or bad.

  D.

All of the above.

10. Douglas Kellner believes that learning how to read, criticize, and resist cultural manipulations really doesn’t help to empower us with regard to dominant forms of culture and media True or False