Race, Gender, Class, Media

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Symbolic Annihilation

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The absence of representation of some group in the media often based on their race, sex, sexual orientation, etc.

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Discourse

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The ways in which lived experiences are positioned within society, they are the interpretive frameworks that creates power roles, forms of oppression, dominant/subordinant groups, & determine what issues are worthy of society's time, attention & resources.

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Ideology

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The collective beliefs, attitudes, attitudes, & values of a given group of ppl. Occurs when there is conflict between opposing ideologies.

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Hegemony

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The naturalization & acceptance of a dominant ideology. individuals allow for their own domination to occur becuase they receirve some power in the process.

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Cultural Imperialism

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Where a powerful country uses cultural means to achieve or support the political & economic ends of imperialism that were historically attained through military force & occupation.

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Colonialism

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The act of taking over a soverign culture through imperial means, often through war or cultural domination. individuals are "othered" or placed against imperial ideology & is often the cause for stereotyping.

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Post- Colonial

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Seeks to understand the cultures effects by the imperial process & to seek emancipation for these programs.

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Private sphere

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The domestic location in which conversations, topics, & issues are addressed only with a select few.

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Normativity

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The appropiate ways of living & loving that are deemed culturally & socially acceptable by contemporary standards.

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Heteronormativity

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The contemporary structuring off society & individual life worlds through a reliance on heterosexuality as the dominant & normative model for attraction. Individuals understand how to live, love, act, work, talk play based on this framework.

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Speech Act Theory

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Suggests that ppl do not just say things but they do things.

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Place

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Refers to the established formation of a particular area.

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Space

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Refers to the practices that exist witin a given place that work to create, shape, modify, and/or destroy that particular spatial reality.

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Startegies

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By either incentive or threat compel individuals within a place to behave in a particular fashion.

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Tactics

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Work to exploit existing spatial structures in order to create contingent, livable spaces.

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Desire

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The basic psychic structure of the subject that drives ppl toward certain objects.

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*****

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the gay- straight binary is a heterosexist fiction that we are better off not rearticulating.

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World Making

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Ways of making contact with one another (queers) for sexual pleasure for exchange of knowledge.

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Heterosexual gaze

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criticizing queers in public

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Framing

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The words we use to describe something or someone frame the situation in a positive, negative, or neutral light.

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Acculturation

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The coexistence of Amercian Culture and hispanic traditions.

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Multiculturalism

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Appreciating and embodying values from more than just one culture, whether as an individual or community.

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Assimilation

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Occurs when ppl interpret what they hear or see based on their own experiences, biases, etc.

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Gay domesticity

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The process by which gays and lesbians engage in "homemaking" and the creation and maintenance of family life within the context of heteronormativity.

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Social mobility

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An ability of a person to rise in Socio-economic status.

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Heteropatriarchy

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The power is held by straight men.

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Fandom

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The fans of a sport or famous person

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Public Sphere

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An area in social life where ppl can get together and freely discuss and identify societal problems.

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Symbolic Capital

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The resources available to an individual on the basis of honor, prestige or recognition, and serves as a value that one holds within a culture.

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Cultural capital

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Symbolic resources such as Values, representations and ideologies, dialects, memory and heritage.