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COMM 206 Midterm Questions & Detailed Answers
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- COMM 206
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- University Of Southern California
COMM 206 Midterm Questions & Detailed Answers
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COMM 206 Midterm Questions & Detailed AnswersCulture has many -ANS>meanings; it's ambiguous, constructed, and has symbolic
and material value
Culture is a... -ANS>process and is not static, but always evolving
Culture is a way that we create -ANS>distinctions (superior vs inferior, bad vs
good, class separations)
Culture can be also used to question... -ANS>the status quo, norms, create a
political statement
Real world example of culture questioning the status quo: -ANS>Occupy Wall
Street, #BLM, Kanye West "Diamonds are Forever"
Contemporary connotations of culture are -ANS>often framed in binaries like high
or low
WHAL Culture -ANS>Williams, Hall, Arnold, and Lipsitz
Matthew Arnold's Reading Highlight -ANS>"Culture is Perfection"
, According to Arnold, how does one achieve perfection? -ANS>essentially, if one
has culture, they have achieved status and perfection
What is Culture to Arnold? -ANS>It's an elitist, gate-keeper view.
Culture is about perfection and social betterment, moral superiority, excellence
Culture is not created but is within us, learned and elites who know enough pass it
down
Not about change but *common sense*
Matthew Arnold in the Real World -ANS>See: a Kardashian as a cultural
trendsetter
Raymond William's highlight -ANS>Culture is ordinary
Raymond Williams breaks...and embraces... -ANS>breaks down the binaries of high
and low culture and embraces popular, everyday culture that everyone has access
to
Problems with Raymond Williams -ANS>False equation that there is a such thing as
bad culture (too much Bachelor in Paradise, not enough Sherlock Holmes)
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