Monday 3-5 Final
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
Which is not one of the concerns and texts of cultural studies?
Postmodernism
Feminism
Marxism
Racism
What was the first significant medium of mass communication?
Newspaper
Television
Morse Code
Radio
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
Who wrote the essay ‘Death of the Author”?
Roland Barthes
Michel Foucault
Jacques Derrida
Jean Baudrillard
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
Who created the encoding/decoding model?
E.P. Thompson
Raymond Williams
Richard Hoggart
Stuart Hall
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?
Who developed the cultivation theory?
George Gerbner
Paul Lazardsfeld
Harold Lasswell
Stuart Hall
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.”
Which is not one of the five types of imperialism that Galtung perceived?
Economic
Military
Social
Cultural
What is the alternate name for modernisation theory?
Development Theory
Dependency Theory
Imperialism Theory
Transcultural Theory
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