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| It's not innate, but a learned behavior. |
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| Roles the people act out. Rules on how to behave in a situation. |
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| What are social constructs? |
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| The underlining beliefs, assumptions, and ideas that influences a culture's perception. |
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| Why do some people cling to their worldviews? |
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| Loyal to culture; our culture rewards and reinforces certain behavior (social conditioning). |
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A belief or statement of opinion considered to be true regardless of the evidence or facts.
Dualistic: either/or |
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| A society in which cultures co-exist while mantaining their heritage and identity. |
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Girls dresssing a certain way.
Slut. |
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| Crude, obnoxious, aggressive jackass. |
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| Social critics define "superstupidity" as being? |
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| Being proud of one's ignorance. |
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| What was identified in class as being the insanity of collective stupidity? |
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| Causing environmental harm and denying it. |
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| Why, according to media observers, is commercial television often full of superficial content? |
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| Insatiable wants, unrealistic goals, "before-and-after" comparisons. |
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| Findings by social researchers hold that a lot of for-profit media providers purposely target teenagers for what reason? |
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| They are easily impressionable. |
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| Why does being "cool" constantly have to be reinvented? |
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You want what you currently don't have.
New things = new want = new cool. |
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| What was Herbert Spencer? |
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| English philosopher, enginner, used Darwin's work improperly. |
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| What did Herbert Spencer do with Charles Darwin's work on evolution? |
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| Spencer missapplied Darwin's work. |
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| According to Social Darwinists, the rich are rich due to what virtue? |
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| "Survival of the fittest." |
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| The market place is the arena which helps to sort out whom? |
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| It helps sort out the strong from the weak. |
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| Lester Ward thought Human progress was due to... |
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| Significant inportance of cooperation and intelligence in shaping human progress, not merciless competition. |
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| Mander thinks TV is not democratic because... |
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| Onle an incredibly small amount of top teir corporations (100) get to decide what will appear on television. |
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| Commercial television programs are created to serve what key purpose? |
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The purpose is to sell the progrsm to corporate backers.
higher ratings = more you can charge |
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| Why do large corporations dominate the electromagnetic spectrum? |
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| They are the only ones whom can continually afford it. |
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| Mander contends that privately-owned television is not the bastion of "freedom of speech" because... |
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| Freedom of speech is more available to some more than others, namely those who can purchase it. |
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| Why does television literally turn viewers into zombies? |
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| Passive-receptive alpha wave condition and no viewer paticipation. |
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| How do television screens induce a hypnotic-like state? |
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| The screen flickers a 60 frames per second and there is little eye movement from the viewer. |
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| Why does radio (like oral story telling) and print media allow for greater cognitive interation. |
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| It forces the listener to participate with his or her own imagination. Passivity is impossible during reading if you are to retain what you read. |
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| Why does a Ladakh elder/scholar describe rural Ladakhi as being "real economists"? |
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| They don't waste rescorces, and make the most of everything. |
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| How do rural Ladakhi reinforce their affinity with the land? |
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| Interdependency, work with the land, and Buddhism. |
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| How is "industrial progress" undermining the Ladakhi traditions of furgality, cooperation, and self-reliance? |
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Life is becoming less physical, living up to an image.
Maya = veil of illusion |
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| How is the urban structure of the capital of Leh causing people to be detached from each other and the land? |
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| They buy everything, leave their homes to seek jobs, isolate, become individuals. |
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| How are market forces (based on money/cash economy) creating insecurity in Ladakh? |
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| Cut-throat competition; uncontrollable, outside, far-and-away economic fluctuations that they can't control. |
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| What psychological pressures are being felt by the Ladakhi to "moderize"? |
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| The compare themselves to Western archtypes of richness. |
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| Who in Ladakhi society is particularly vulnerable to the conditioning that "West is best"? |
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Young men.
They compare to West and feel inadequate. |
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| Why is the model of mass/industrial based education identified as a threat to Ladakhi culture? |
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| Modern education is too specialized. It forces one to go away for urban jobs. Also, children are now separated by age and sometimes ethnicity. |
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