SOC 525 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Silvio Berlusconi, Cultural Studies, Critical Race Theory

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Chapter 1- cultural studies, multiculturalism & media culture. The media: media images help shape our view of the world and our deepest values, good v. bad, positive v. negative, moral v. evil. British cultural studies: analyzed society as a hierarchical and antagonist set of social relations characterized by the oppression of subordinate class, gender, race, ethnic, and national strata. Marxian ideology: focuses on class e. g. while feminist approaches highlight gender, critical race theory emphasizes race and ethnicity, gay and lesbian theories explicate sexuality. 3 approaches to cultural studies: political economy & production, how media control certain networks, how we consume these texts. Textual analysis: looking at print ad and images, how they are related, the message it portrays. Audience reception/consumption: what people do with these texts, people writing blogs about the show, audience gives the show more meaning e. g. halloween costume tv themed. Lecture 02- family, class and ethnicity in early network television programs.

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