SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. Critical theorists are concerned with mass culture for which of the following reasons:
a. Culture should come from the people to represent real experience, but mass culture presents falsified versions of reality
b. Mass culture suggests that riches and fame are reserved for rare and special people
c. Mass culture is meant to make people less likely to pursue social change
d. Mass culture gives rise to corporate brands that reinforce social class hierarchy
a. Culture should come from the people to represent real experience, but mass culture presents falsified versions of reality
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Zweig believes that individualism by itself undermines
a. capitalism. b. morality, interdependence, and community. c. nothing, unless it is combined with selfishness. d. prosperity. e. freedom.
A group of countries under the direct control of a foreign power or government such that the dominant power shapes political, economic, and cultural development form a(n)
a. monopoly. b. conglomerate. c. PAC. d. empire.
Our dominant ideas about what it means to be a man and their influence over the behaviors of men is known as:
a. doing gender b. androcentrism c. hegemonic masculinity d. patriarchal legitimation
Which term is used in the sociological literature to describe a loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective?
A. Neutralization B. Cultural transmission C. Disobedience D. Anomie