Cultural Studies

Neerja Raheja
Gang of four of
structuralism:

1. Claude Levi Strauss

2. Jacques Lacan
3. Roland Barthes
4. Michael Foucault
Cultural criticism/ cultural
studies

- Matthew Arnold
- Thomas Carlyle
- John Ruskin
- Richard Wolin
- Jacques Martin Barzun
- Charles Baudelaire
Who is not associated with
cultural studies approach?

1. Richard Hoggart
2. David Easton
3. Louis Althusser
4. Antonio Gramsci
What is polysemy?

1. The capacity of a text to

have more than one
meaning or to be open to a
range of different readings
2. A computer programming
language
What was Gramsci’s term for
cultural consensus supporting
capitalism?

1. Ideological state
apparatuses
2. Discourse
3. Universalism
4. Hegemony
Ecotheorists tend to show an interest in
which of the following?

1. How writers conceptualize natural

environments and the representation
of environmental issue in literature
and culture
2. How writers have damaged the
environment
3. How the environment can be repaired
4. Who is responsible for damaging the
environment
What is the Johari Window?

1. A formula for analysing

intrapersonal
communication
2. A communication critic
3. None of the above
How do Marxist theorists react to
ideology?

1. They accept ideology as an essential

part of the society
2. They subject all ideologies to critique
in order to expose biased interests
3. They reject the idea that ideology
has real effects on social progress
4. They promote ideology because it
helps to create a dominant social
order
What is meant by an elaborated
code?

1. A varied version on the binary

code, instead of using digits 0 and
1 it includes the digit 9
2. Communication that allows the
expression of individuality,
identified particularly through
the use of wide vocabulary
What does connotation mean

1. The meanings in a text that are

revealed through the receiver’s
own cultural experience
2. A shared belief or experience
which is communicated to a group
of people
3. An actor who does comedy and
horror work in the same piece of
work
What does cognitive dissonance mean?

1. A conflict between two people when

they can only communicate in a
limited number of ways
2. A state of conflict between a person’s
belief system and the way in which
they choose to act
3. An impulse which people obtain
after spending a large amount of
money
What is an archetype?

Conformity means?

What is intertextuality?
Thank You