These are the key terms from which we will draw the quiz next Monday. You can get additional help from the class web site if you are having difficulty with the concepts behind them. Most of these terms come from Lemert.
Enlightenment
Reality
Semiotics
Essentialism
Social theories
Mirror-stage
Hyperreality
Imaginary
Power/knowledge
Linguistic turn
Encoding/decoding
Hegemony
Media filtering
Connotation/denotation
Interpellation
Preferred readings
Mass Culture
Frankfurt School
Dominant vs. negotiated vs. oppositional reading positions
Radical Modernism
Radical Postmoderism
Strategic Postmodernism
The Culture Industry
Naturalized Codes