Pop culture freaks chap 4 5 and 6 Flashcards
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For good or for evil, the capitalist system has forced millions of women out of a position of economic dependence on husband or father into the position of independent wage-earners, often responsible for the livelihood not of themselves alone, but also of family dependents. The tragedy of the situation is that, whilst we have forced these millions of women to walk along the
wage-earning road, we have not unbound their feet! … By continuing to brand the woman as the social inferior of the man, unworthy of any share in the direction of the country, upon the economic development of which we have made her directly dependent; by providing for
her much less technical training and higher education than for the boy; by telling her that she has slighter faculties and smaller needs, and that nothing but toil of routine character is expected from her. what is this an excerpt from?)
(“The Awakening of Women,” 1913`
Beatrice porter
Gender is a social ____
Conmsstruction
For individual gender means ____ for society gender means ___?
SAMENESS, DIFFERENCES
What is a social construction?
An ordering system that is based on social reality, but often implying a biological or other basis. Social constructions are powerfully real and shape behavior and social relationships.
Women constitute just over half of the US population, but they possess far less than their share of the…?
available social
power
In 2016, women run only ___ of the Fortune 500 companies
21
In 2015, women made up ____% of all lawyers but were only ____% of partners in U.S. law firms
38, 18
Men outnumber women at a rate of 76% vs. 24% in all sectors of employment for ___ and ____as of 2009
Science and engineering
Another important issues facing gender relations in the social world is ???
Privilege-specifically the ways that men benefit from privileges that they can take for granted.
Power
What is Power?
A force that exerts influence over the behavior of individuals and groups. In some conceptions of power it is held by specific actors. In other conceptions it is independent of actors and moving in multiple directions.
What is Privilege?
The benefit of being situated at the top of a social hierarchy. The concept is associated particularly with the work of Peggy McIntosh, who wrote about white privilege and male privilege.
What is the Blechdel test?
A method for testing the status of women in a film, attributed to a comic strip by Alison Bechdel. To pass the Bechdel test, a film must have 1) at least two or more female characters who 2) have names and 3) talk to each other about something other than men.
What is Hypermasculinity?
A cultural process of ramping up the standards and representations of masculinity
What is a descriptive analysis?
A method of studying a social issue or practice when there is very little already known. Rather than beginning with a specific theory, the goal is simply to map out the prominent landmarks of a given social world.
How are Black women represented in music videos is an example of what kind of analysis?
Descriptive
What is Interviewing creators?
A method of studying the production process by asking questions of the professionals involved.
In 2 parent heterosexual households
Men typically control the remote T O F
Men see TV watching as an Group experience T O F? experience
Women see TV watching as a INDIVIDUAL experience T O F
Women more likely to watch something they don’t like to spend time with spouse or kids T O F
Men more likely to change channel but ask if that’s ok first T O F?
T,
F- INDIVIDUAL
F- SOCIAL EXPERIENCE
T
F- THEY CHANGE WITHOUT ASKING
What is Culture war?
a media-grabbing
multi-vocal conflict within and across institutions that has consequences for the kinds of demands that institutions make on public policy.
What are Digital Divide
Interpretive strategies?
Ordered systems that guide the process of making meaning out of cultural consumption. Formal aesthetics can serve as an interpretive strategy, but so can other ideological systems such as feminism, Christianity, or libertarianism
What is digital divide?
A form of inequality related to access to, and understanding of, the Internet and its associated technologies, such as smartphones and tablets. Digital divides have been identified, and debated, along class lines, gender lines, and racial lines, among others
Women at least half of the audience for the culture industry but they are far less than half of the representations found within the industry T O F?
T
_____ is the keyword we can use to describe the treatment of women by the culture industry.
Annihilation
What are the four forms of suicide highlighted in emelie durheims forms of suicide?
Egoistic, altruistic, anomic, fatalistic
What does emile durheim say for why crime is necessary?:
Generates norms
produces: social boundries, and rituals that generate solidarity
generates: innovation, and social progrss
