UGRD-GE6108 Philippine Popular Culture Quiz 2 PDF

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UGRD-GE6108 Philippine Popular Culture Quiz 2 Countercultures are groups of people that are similar with the dominant culture in certain respects, and whose norms and beliefs may be incompatible with it. False The fundamental risk of the culture industry is the creation of false psychological needs ...

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UGRD-GE6108 Philippine Popular Culture Quiz 2 1. Countercultures are groups of people that are similar with the dominant culture in certain respects, and whose norms and beliefs may be incompatible with it. - False 2. The fundamental risk of the culture industry is the creation of false psychological needs that only the products of capitalism can fulfill and satisfy. - True 3. The cultural elements of imperialism are composed of economic imperialism, also called economic colonialism. - True 4. Subcultures involve people who may embrace much of the dominant culture but are set apart by one or more characteristics of cultural significance. - True 5. Since the Spanish-American War at the end of the 19th century, the U.S. had chosen the Philippines like a colonial catch due to its vast natural resource base and strategic position in the U.S. imperialist plan to turn the Pacific into an American lake for U.S. big business and take a piece of the huge Chinese market. - True 6. "The Cultural Industry: Enlightenment as a Mass Illusion," from the book Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947), it was described as a critical vocabulary. - True 7. In a well-defined period, a countercultural movement does not reflect the culture and desires of a specific population. - False 8. Spanish colonization came upon the momentum of European mercantilism and the desire to spread Islam to the Philippines. - False 9. The critical theorists Theodor Adorno (1903–1969) and Max Horkheimer (1895–1973) coined the word pop culture. - False 10. Popular culture does not imitate a factory that produces uniform cultural goods — films, radio, magazines, etc. –which are used to exploit passivity in mass society. - False 11. Adorno and Horkheimer therefore especially viewed mass-produced culture as helpful to the more technologically and intellectually demanding high arts. - False 12. True psychological needs are independence, imagination, and genuine happiness, referring to an earlier demarcation of human needs, which Herbert Marcuse had created. - True 13. Some subculture examples are the LGBT, bodybuilders, nudists, hip hop, grunge. - True 14. Popular culture is further broken down into six subdefinitions. The first is culture that is popular or valued by others by measurable means, such as sales of songs, playing on the radio, attending screenings or concerts, and ratings of viewers on TV shows.

- True 15. Cultural imperialism is the practice of promoting and enforcing a culture over a more powerful society, typically that of a politically powerful nation; In other words, the cultural hegemony of industrialized or economically and politically influential countries which define general cultural values and standardized civilizations worldwide. - False 16. Pop Culture involves concepts, beliefs, norms, practices and obects that enable a community of individuals, or even a whole society, to live their collective lives with minimal friction. - False 17. A counterculture (also written counterculture) is a subculture whose values and behavioral norms differ materially from those of mainstream society, often as opposed to mainstream cultural mores. - True 18. In the work 'Cultural Theory and Popular Culture,' John Story describes Culture and Popular Culture as 'works and practices of intellectual and creative activity, texts and practices whose main role is to represent, create or be an opportunity for meaning development. - True 19. Pop culture, will enable us to talk as examples of culture about soap opera, pop music, and comics. - True 20. Prominent examples of Western Late Modern countercultures include Romanticism (1790– 1840), Bohemianism (1850–1910), the "Jazz Period" of the Roaring Twenties, the 1930's NonConformists, the Beat Generation's more fragmentary counterculture (1944–1964), - True...