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CMST 381 Exam 1 Terms
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Communication
Undergraduate 3
02/28/2013

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Media framing
Definition
Organizing “stories around major societal themes, frames, or conflicts that offer ‘definitions of social reality’”
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Criminally; Mentally deranged, sexual perverts, radical militants

Victims of abuse and disease & trapped in an immoral lifestyle
Definition
How have queers been portrayed historically?
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Women
Definition
What other groups have dealt with media framing besides homosexuals?
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Wall Street Movement
Definition
Social activists – delinquency and disorder – criminalize activist efforts and justify police intervention
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Gender identity
Definition
do I feel male or female
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Gender expression
Definition
do I act male or female
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Image bites
Definition
What have homosexuals historically been shown as in the media? (sound or image bite?)
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Sheryn Sandberg
Definition
Chief operating officer of Facebook
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Sheryl Sandberg
Definition
Formation of groups to learn how to get ahead in business – collective self-awareness exercise – to learn (page 2 – 3rd paragraph)
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Mai Xiong
Definition
Policy advisor to state legislature
Feminist – advocate for women’s rights
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Kou Vang
Definition
Elected policy maker
Believes that sex education should occur in schools because many parents do not tell their children about sex education.
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Dia Lee
Definition
Elected policy maker
Considered first Hmong American to be elected to public office
She worries about destroying the Hmong culture if it is changed rapidly, like Mai Xiong wants to do.
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Hmong culture
Definition
Culture is a contested site.
Competing Discourses
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Negative hegemonic culture
Definition
Racialization and racism
We want to keep things the same if we’re in a hegemonic culture.
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Qualitative study
Definition
identify factors contributing to the glass ceiling for women – focus groups/interviews
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Glass ceiling
Definition
“those artificial barriers based on attitudinal or organizational bias that prevent qualified individuals from advancing upward in their organization into management-level positions”
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Number of women – top executives – board of directors
Salary gap
Definition
How is the glass ceiling measured?
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1. Denial
2. Gender Role Socialization
3. Historical Precedence
4. Women turning against other Women
5. Corporate Culture
Definition
Factors as to why a glass ceiling exists in public relations/communications management
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Empowerment of women

Working harder does not necessarily mean getting ahead

Playing corporate politics

Negotiated resignation
Definition
Overcoming the Glass Ceiling
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Empowerment of women

Working harder does not necessarily mean getting ahead

Playing corporate politics

Negotiated resignation
Definition
Overcoming the Glass Ceiling
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"all their treasures"
Definition
Treaty of Waitangi in English left out...
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Enhance its institutional support/status
Education, law/government, mass media
State-owned broadcasting?
This was the question of the trials
Stand alone channel or mainstream channels?
Who is watching the programs?
Definition
Need for broadcasting Maori language
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minorities tend to have lower incomes and tend to have less access to Internet and media online. Even if they do have access to the Internet, they may not know or hear of the information available online.
Definition
Digital divide
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“self, agentic goals”
“schema-based strategy” in decisions
“independence and activity”
Definition
masculine gender roles
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“communal concerns”
“detailed processing strategy” in decisions
“expressiveness and emotionalism”
Definition
feminine gender roles
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Strong masculine traits – Weak feminine traits
Definition
Masculine schematics
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Strong feminine traits – Weak masculine traits
Definition
feminine schematics
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Strong masculine traits – Strong feminine traits
Definition
low androgynous
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Weak masculine traits – Weak feminine traits
Definition
high andorgynous
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Power distance
Uncertainty avoidance
Individualism/collectivism
Masculinity/femininity
Long- versus short-term orientation
Definition
five dimensions of national culture
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Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Same Sex Attracted
Definition
GLBTQIS
Term
Queer
Definition
is used as an inclusive term that is also intended to reflect the difficult to categorize identities that transgress, move between, or cut across socially constructed boundaries of sex and gender
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“lived ideology”
“a society’s way of life”
“what passes for sense within a society”
Definition
macro societal level
Term
a set of intellectual beliefs of thinking individuals that are stimulated, substantiated, and constrained by the shared beliefs of the society at large
Definition
individual level
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group identity – within the whole

mosaic, quilt, salad bowl
Definition
Pluralism (opposite of assimilationism)
Term
extremists – on both sides

maximum ingroup-outgroup distance

us against them mentality

self-glorification and denigration of other groups
Definition
separatism
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Premise since the 1930s – adaptation of immigrants and other cultural minorities is an important and desirable goal for the individual as well as for the society as a whole
Assimilationist
Empirical studies about assimilation
Definition
Cultural Identity as an Adaptive and Evolving Identity of an Individual
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Integrationist
Multiple Identities
Identity Management Theory – presentation of face in various interactions

Personal – individual characteristics
Enacted – emergent in social behavior and symbols
Relational – emerging in relationships with others
Communal – something held by a group of people
Definition
Cultural Identity as Flexible and Negotiable Entity of an Individual
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Discrete social category
Identity through an act of voluntary identification
Develop a clear sense of commitment to that group
Could develop a bicultural identity
Definition
Cultural Identity as a Discrete Category and an Individual Choice
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Ethnographic Researchers
Essential cultural features of communication that differentiate one community from another
The shared life patterns, practices, symbols connoting a common tradition and a common future
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Cultural Identity as a Distinct System of Communal Practices
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Critical and Cultural Studies
Traditionally underprivileged groups are victims of systematic oppression
Researchers tend to oppose traditional normative-representational-disciplinary social research
Production of oppositional readings of dominant or mainstream texts
Definition
Cultural Identity as a Discreet and Non-Negotiable Social Category and Group Right
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