CMST 1150 : Exam 2 Guide
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Ideology a system of beliefs: neutral term positive connotation. If ideologically driven, ideas become more important than others: culture groups have distinct identities, x with circle around it what is and is not, knowing your place in society, perform your identity, can create alienation! Identities created by television shows: performance studies views culture groups in 2 ways, we live in a world of multiple literacies which are performed, examples: Internet (text messaging) electronic literacy : nonverbals body literacies . Jargin, categories of music aural literacies : art visual literacies . Psychological realism western tradition: gets staged in someway example protests, ballet, street performance, the northwestern university line (lsu, emerged from oral interpretation. Idea of oral interpretation contested: rhetoric and public address, english departments. Theories are human constructions: the goals of theory, description, a process of using symbols to represent phenomena. They aim to articulate the patterns that describe and explain what happens in a specific type of situation.
