Multicultural Dimensions of Film Final Exam Study Guide Multiculturalism Kellner Multiculturalism and Media Culture Arguments People forge their sense of selfhood their notion of what it means to be male or female their sense of class of ethnicity and race of nationality of sexuality and of us and them from different forms of media like radio television and film Media creates culture that reproduces certain forms of racism sexism and biases against members of subordinate classes social groups or alternative lifestyles The ruling economic elite of a society controls the culture s media which supports their own capitalist values General Terms Discussed 1 Ideology 2 The Other The people that are not included into a culture s The body of ideas reflecting the social needs and aspirations of an individual group class or culture acceptance because of religion race sexuality class nationality ideology or any other aspect that makes them an outsider fear and desire through a culture s media Learning how to behave think feel believe 3 Cultural Pedagogy Weber Race Class Gender and Sexuality Arguments The social political economic and psychological dimensions of everyday life are intertwined with different systems of inequality race class gender and sexuality that limit and restrict some people while privileging others There are six common themes throughout race class gender and sexuality o Contextual Although race class gender and sexuality hierarchies exist throughout history they are never static because they are constantly changing All of the dimensions are socially constructed and the dominant culture defines them as ranked dichotomies o Socially constructed o Systems of power relationships o Social structural and social psychological All of the dimensions are historically specific socially constructed hierarchies of domination power relationships All of the dimensions are embedded and have meaning at the micro level of people s everyday lives structural as well as the macro level of community and social institutions psychological interwoven and simultaneous True knowledge depends on a person s ability to reflect back to social groups and their experiences in way in which they can define value and empower themselves to seek social justice All dimensions are o Interdependence of knowledge and activism o Simultaneously expressed General Terms Discussed Sexual habits and desires of a person capable of sexual A group of people united or classified together on the basis A social stratum whose members share certain economic 1 Race 2 Class Sexual identity in relation to society or culture of common history nationality or geographic distribution social or cultural characteristics 3 Gender 4 Sexuality feelings social contingencies of the dimensions above individuals everyday lives 7 Social Psychological micro communities and social institutions 5 Social Constructionist Theories Relations that have meaning in 6 Social Structural macro Relations that have meaning in Emphasizes the historical and Hall Representations Meaning and Language Representation is the production of meaning through Arguments language Meaning depends on the relationship between physical things in the world and conceptual things in the world Concepts that are formed in the mind function as a system of mental representations which classifies and organizes the world into meaningful categories General Terms Discussed 1 Representation 2 Reflective Representation Meaning that is constructed 3 Intentional Representation To describe or depict it To call it up in the mind by description or portrayal or imagination to place a likeness of it before us in our mind or in the senses Also means to symbolize A meaning that already exists in the physical world Language that expresses only what the speaker or writer intended to mean Words only mean what the author meant them to mean 4 Constructionist Representation through language Meaning is constructed by the system of representation in other words meaning is not in the object or person nor is it in the word that represents it combination of tangible concepts chairs tables desks and abstract concepts war death friendship love correlated with a set of concepts in our head Meaning depends on the concepts and images formed in thoughts that can represent the world To belong to a culture is to belong to roughly the same conceptual and linguistic universe Concepts and ideas are translated into different languages These languages are interpreted to reference the world Words sounds or images that carry meaning Objects people or events that are 5 Systems of Representation Finding meaning through a 6 Mental Representation 7 Cultural Relativism 8 Signs Lull Hegemony Arguments Mass media is used as a tool by the ruling elites to maintain their power wealth and status by popularizing their own philosophy culture and morality Hegemony is not a direct result of thoughts or actions but is a framing of all the competing definitions of reality within the dominant class s range Hegemony implies a willing agreement by people to be governed by principles rules and laws they believe operate in their best interests even though they may not Hegemony fails when dominant ideology is weaker than social resistance The power or dominance that one social group holds General Terms Discussed 1 Hegemony over others Ideology Arguments Althusser Ideology and State Apparatuses Every social formation arises from a dominant mode of production Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence Ideology is just an illusion Ideology is an imaginary representation of that world that is interpreted to find the reality of that world The ruling elite use ideology to base their dominance and exploit the people with a falsified representation of the world to enslave their minds and dominate their imagination General Terms Discussed 2 Ideology 3 State Power 4 State Apparatus 5 Ideological State Apparatuses ISA The differing groups and institutions of a society The force of repressive execution and intervention in The body of ideas reflecting the social needs and aspirations of an individual group class or culture support of the interests of the ruling class that form and control the members of that society A certain number of realities which present themselves in the form of distinct and specialized institutions religious different churches educational public and private schools family
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