Midterm 2

Question 1

Modes of production were an object of study in what tradition?

Answer 1

• Dialectical materialism

Question 2

Which tradition looks at the culture industry and institutions?

Answer 2

Critical tradition

Question 3

Horkheimer and Adorno, Habermas, and Deetz belonged to what tradition?

Answer 3

• Critical

Question 4

Marx and Engles were part of what tradition?

Answer 4

• Dialectical materialism

Question 5

Aristotle, Burke, and foss & Griffith are authors of what tradition?

Answer 5

• Rhetorical

Question 6

This tradition looks at the means of persuasion and an object that it studies is speech

Answer 6

• Rhetorical

Question 7

Foss and Griffith argue that a _______ bias underlies most theories of rhetoric

Answer 7

• Patriarchal

Question 8

Who argued for invitational rhetoric, encompassing equality, immanent value, and self determination?

Answer 8

• Foss and Griffith

Question 9

Who discussed identification and division heavily in their writings of rhetoric?

Answer 9

• Burke
• says that rhetoric is an essential function in language and language is a symbolic means to produce cooperation in beings that by nature respond to symbols

Question 10

Deetz (critical tradition) used systematic disclosure and discursive closure (disqualification & naturalization) to explain that all communication is _______ to some degree

Answer 10

• Distorted

Question 11

Adorno and Horkheimer argued at the _______ industry teaches us what we want, makes us think it’s our own ideas, and sells it to us

Answer 11

Culture

Question 12

________ addresses 4 claims to validity including: 1. Intelligibility, 2. Truth, 3. Normative rightness, 3. Sincerity

Answer 12

Habermas

Question 13

This theory (critical tradition) states that ppl take statements to be true just because ppl agree upon them

Answer 13

• Consensus theory of truth

Question 14

Habermas, Fraser, and Warner are the theorists in?

Answer 14

• Public sphere theory

Question 15

Habermas argues that 1. Access, 2. Free participation, and 3. Rationality and general interest are aspects of the _________ _________

Answer 15

Public sphere

Question 16

The _______ __________ organizes itself as a bearer of public opinion

Answer 16

Public sphere

Question 17

What does Habermas believe the role of media such as newspapers and magazines are?

Answer 17

To transmit information of the public sphere to influence those who receive these messages

Question 18

Fraser discusses subaltern counter politics. What are these groups and what do they do?

Answer 18

• Subordinated social groups such as women and gays)

- they critique others

Question 19

What does it means to say that countering the public sphere has an emancipatory potential?

Answer 19

• Countering the public sphere allows individuals to express their own freedom

Question 20

What does Warner mean by saying the public is autotelic? When does a public exist according to him?

Answer 20

• it is an ends to itself
• a public exists when somebody is addressed or talked to. For example, when a president addresses ‘the American ppl’ in a speech, a public now exists…..

Question 21

Buber, Gadamer, and Chang were members of what theory?

Answer 21

• Phenomenological

Question 22

Chang uses 3 personal conversation examples to explain the idea that most conversations are _______. He says they become _________ when non- comprehension occurs

Answer 22

• Meaningless

- Meaningful

Question 23

Buber (phenomenological) argues for 3 kinds of dialogue. What are they?

Answer 23

1. Genuine
2. Technical
3. Monologue disguised as dialogue

Question 24

This theory is the philosophy of existence and is concerned with how ppl come to know the world through the senses

Answer 24

Phenomenological

Question 25

Mead, Taylor, and Cameron are part of the ____________ tradition, concerned with our relations to society.

Answer 25

- Sociocultural

Question 26

Self- regulation in society, and communication as an experience of the other are topics discussed by who?

Answer 26

Mead

Question 27

Mead discusses the differences between animal and human communication. What are these differences?

Answer 27

``` Animal= reactive Human= symbols and language ```

Question 28

Taylor et al discuss the ABX model of communication. What does this model tell us?

Answer 28

A= a person who asks for something B= person who responds and asks for A X= an object that triggers the interaction ---> communication occurs at the intersection of conversation (interaction) & text (meaningful content)

Question 29

__________ argues the concepts of the enterprise culture (values that help ppl to succeed in bold and difficult undertakings) and that communication is being turned into an expert system (general and impersonal, detach skills & techniques in communication, system doesn't care about you as a person)

Answer 29

Cameron