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jerry coleman

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Ideological criticism
 
  a. focuses on the ways media institutions and texts serve the interests of the dominant
  social and political elite classes.
  b. views criticism as a means of stimulating material changes in living conditions and
  societies.
  c. is as concerned with media as sources of empowerment as with media as vehicles of
  domination.
  d. believes that media texts can be innocent sources of pleasurable entertainment.
  e. often is typically explicitly evaluative and confrontational

Question 2

According to French neo-Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser, we should think of a society as a social formation consisting of two sets of institutional structures and practices
 
  a. base and superstructure.
  b. interpellation and hailing.
  c. hegemony and coercion.
  d. repressive and ideological state apparatuses.
  e. common sense and dominant sense.


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Reply #1 on: Aug 11, 2018
Answer to Question 1

a, b, e

Answer to Question 2

d


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