Quiz 2: Chapter 11

Question 1

what are the three features of culture

Answer 1

values, myths, fantasy themes

Question 2

values

Answer 2

deep-seated, persistent beliefs about essential rights and wrongs that express a person’s basic orientation to life

Question 3

myths

Answer 3

master narratives that served as a moral guides to proper action

Question 4

what are the different types of myths

Answer 4

cosmological, societal, identity, eschatological

Question 5

themes

Answer 5

contemporary stories providing concrete manifestations of current values and hinting at some idealized vision of the future

Question 6

reasons of studying pop culture

Answer 6

rhetoric is most powerful when it is noticed/
people are easiest to persuade when they are in a good mood,/
values emerge when people are young, when consuming entertainment , /
mass media affect millions of people

Question 7

eschatological

Answer 7

where are we headed; going in the future

Question 8

cosmological

Answer 8

the why in everything and how it all started