[COMM 206] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 105 pages long Study Guide!
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Empathy: acknowledging privilege, using auto-bio as tool. Take stock of what has influenced our (and others") experience. Relationship between comm, culture, power, politics, etc. Culture as entry point to struggles within society. Interested in relationships between language, literature, and society. Interested in what race, gender, immig, and pop culture can tell us about political struggles within society. Ideal state or process of human perfection (absolutes, universal values: discovery and description of those values in lives and works, e. g. Martin luther separating from catholic church: expand it by traveling, trying new foods, exposing self to new languages, etc. Also means some are better than others: stems from enlightenment. Analyzing culture is exploring complex relations between different activities, things, ideas, behavior, etc. that organize social life: complex relations=social character & patterns of culture within society, dominant mode of behavior (e. g. students listening to professor) Karl mar(cid:454) & friedri(cid:272)h e(cid:374)gels" materialist co(cid:374)(cid:272)eptio(cid:374) of culture.
