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Cultural Studies Mastery Quiz

Test your knowledge of cultural studies with this comprehensive quiz that covers various theories, key figures, and historical contexts. Dive into the core concepts and emerge with a deeper understanding of the subject!

27 multiple choice questions
Focused on pivotal cultural theories
Perfect for students and enthusiasts

27 Questions7 MinutesCreated by InquiringMind21

What are the two distinct schools of thought?

Transmission/process & structural

Transmission/process school & cultural context school

Cultural context & post structural

Cultural context & post modern

Of the four major ages of communication, the first age is:

The Age of Signs and Signals

The Age of Speech and Language

The Age of Writing

The Age of Mass Communication

What did Mcluhan claim was the primary cause of cultural change?

Channels of communications

The movement of the sun

Money

Art

What did Marx say determined the way in which society thinks?

Productiveness of labour

Material factors

The Toronto School

Cloud computing

What were the four periods/epochs of human history according to Mcluhan?

Golden age, bronze age, silver age, dark ages

Tribal age, literate age, print age, electronic age

WW1, WW2, Cold war, Iraq war

1st stage, 2nd stage, 3rd stage, 4th stage

What famous post-structuralist philosopher was known for popularising the term ‘deconstruction’?

Jean Francois Lyotard

Ferdinand de Saussure

Sacha Baron Cohen

Jacques Derrida

Which post-structuralist philosopher popularised the term “dominant discourse change and evolve over time”?

Roland Barthes

Ethan Tremblay

Jacques Derrida

Michel Foucault

Whenever there are significant social differences between the encoders and decoders of a text and the desired message is not decoded due to these misunderstandings.” What form of decoding does this describe?

Dominant

Oppositional

Aberrant

Negoti

What are the 5 truth telling mechanisms?

Intuition, tenacity, authority, rationality, empiricism

Rationality, capability, institution, real world, influential

Influential, critical, researched, knowledge, limited

None of these

True or False: Critical thinking helps you identify the obvious and the hidden messages more accurately, and to understand the process by which an argument is constructed

True

False

What prevents good critical thinking?

Outside influences

Previous interactions

Our own assumptions, preconsumptions and dislikes

A lack of education

What’s also known as the hypodermic model?

Stimulis response model

Critical cultural model

Transmission model

Lazarsfeld model

What was Harold Lasswell’s famous formulation of the communication process?

Who says what in what way to whom?

Who says what in which channel to whom with what effect?

Who says what with what intent?

Encoder say what?

According to Ferdinand de Saussure, what is a sign made up of?

Signifier and Signified

Encoder and decoder

Message, sender, receiver

None of these

Levi-Strauss talks of the Logic of the Contract. What is the Logic of the concrete?

Metaphoric transitions from abstract to concrete

Ways of knowing

Ration and regulations

None of these

Whats the correct order of Vladimir Propp’s finding of Narrative Structure elements

. 1. preparation, 2. complication, 3. Transference, 4. struggle, 5. Return, 6. Recognitio

. 1. preparation, 2. complication, 3. Transference, 4. struggle, 5. Recognitio, 6. Return

1. Complication 2. Transportation 3. Preparation 4. Struggle 5. Transference 6. Retern

1. Preparation 2. Transference 3. Complication 4. Struggle 5. Retern

Which definition of decoding aligns the interpretation of the reading with the dominate ideology

Oppositional

Preferred

Negotiated

Cultural

Who conducted the reading the "reading of the romance study“?

David Morley

Charlotte Brunsdon

Janice Radway

Stuart Hall

Choose the most correct answer. According to Audience reception analysis, the audience is:

Passive

Active

Motivated

Dominant

Which attitude would be typical of a critical theorist in relation to international communication?

�Western culture is destroying the diversity provided by indigenous populations in various countries.”

B) “Western culture contributes to the development of individual cultural voices on the world media stage“

�Various industries within the developing world are flourishing due to the spread of western culture catalysed by technological development.”

�Western culture is becoming less prevalent thanks to the introduction of Chinese herbal medical practices amongst hipster communities.”

What is the alternate name for modernisation theory?

Development Theory

Dependency Theory

Imperialism Theory

Transcultural Theory

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