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CMST 210 MIDTERM EXAM QUESTIONS AND REVISED ANSWERS 100% CORRECT What is critical theory? - Answer- Refers to a family of theories that aim at a critique and transformation of society by integrating normative perspectives with empirically informed analysis of society's conflicts, contradictions, ...

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CMST 210 MIDTERM EXAM QUESTIONS
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What is critical theory? - Answer- Refers to a family of theories that aim at a critique and
transformation of society by integrating normative perspectives with empirically informed
analysis of society's conflicts, contradictions, and tendencies.

A bunch of theories combined with personal perspectives and a group of perspectives.
There is some relation between them but also some differences. There can be clashes
because they do not quite fit together, or parts of our world that don't quite fit together.

However, critical theory is such a broad term that we cannot know the exact definition
and exactly what it affects.

What is one of the key ideas of the Frankfurt School? - Answer- The concept of "culture
industries," as Adorno and Horkheimer write about

What were Frankfurt School thinkers concerned with? - Answer- Understanding why
Marx's theories failed to predict what was happening in Germany and Europe,
especially after WWI. They watched fascism, not communism, take hold among the
working-class masses

What are three key works of the Frankfurt School's first generation? - Answer- "Dialectic
of Enlightenment" - Adorno and Horkheimer
"The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" - Benjamin
"One-Dimensional Man" - Marcuse

What other social political movements were involved with critical theory? - Answer-
Feminist theory, critical race theory, queer theory, and postcolonial/decolonial theory.
The root is growing stronger to connect with the world we are living in now and for the
next few decades. This is because our current society is founded on a lot of the things
that were present in the 1960s. There is also the force of people who did not like those
things and they pushed back against them.

What is critical theory used to refer to? - Answer- Critical theory, or sometimes just
theory, is used to refer to work by theorists associated with psychoanalysis and post-
structuralism

, How many works did Walter Benjamin produce? - Answer- Published 3 obscure books
in his lifetime
Not for everyday folks to read because they were so deep.

Was Walter Benjamin's work talked about while he was alive? - Answer- No!

Posthumous reputation grew on publication of literary, cultural, and historical essays
To be talked about in classrooms didn't start until the 50s, 60s, and 70s.

Walter Benjamin's books were called ... - Answer- "The Work of Art in the Age of
Mechanical Reproduction"
"Theses on Philosophy of History"
Passengenwerk (The Arcades Project" - an enormous unfinished text looking at the
development of modern life through the lens of fragments, observations, bits and
pieces, like a kind of collage.
He might have been out on the streets and heard two people talking, he then scribbled
this onto paper and included it in this project.
He had boxes upon boxes of notes.

What is a Flaneur? - Answer- Flaneur - French word meaning "lounger," "stroller," "idler"
but as used by Benjamin and others, it refers to being a free-floating observer of
modern life. A solitary walker through the street, looking, exploring.

What fundamentally changed art and how people experience it? - Answer-
Photography.

"... the technique of reproduction detaches the reproduced object from the domain of
tradition. By making many reproductions it substitutes a plurality of copies for a unique
existence. And in permitting the reproduction to meet the beholder or listener in his
particular situation, it reactivates the object reproduced.
Before photography, works of art were singular, unique, and existed in place. You had
to go to see them and experience them. There was a distance between you and them.

BoBo Doll Experiment - Answer- Behaviorism was a dominant way of understanding
human psychology. When you do good things, you get a reward for it. Just like dogs get
a treat when they're good or when they get a talking to when they are bad, humans
were thought to be the same way. "People learn when they are conditioned by direct
experience (where you have done something that is done to you and you get the reward
or the punishment and you base the way you act on this) .

We do a lot of watching of what other people do and see what works for them and what
does not.
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