Unit 7: Cultural Studies Mock Tests
Comprehensive topic-wise practice tests covering all major theories and applications of Cultural Studies with detailed solutions
"Culture is ordinary: that is the first fact." - Raymond Williams
Key Concepts: Cultural materialism, Encoding/decoding, Cultural hegemony, Ideological state apparatuses
Dominance maintained not by force but by cultural consent
Ruling class ↔ Subordinate classes (negotiation)
Key Concepts: Marxist theory, Feminist approaches, Poststructuralism, Postmodernism
"The East is a career." - Edward Said (quoting Disraeli)
Key Concepts: Othering, Mimicry, Ambivalence, Neocolonialism, Diaspora
Gender is not what one is but what one does
Repetitive acts → Illusion of stable identity
Key Concepts: Construction of gender, Queer theory, Masculinity studies, Feminist analysis
"There is no such thing as the people; there are only ways of constructing the people." - Stuart Hall
Key Concepts: Cultural capital, Spectacle, Simulacra, Participatory culture, Meme culture
"Race is a social construct." - Stuart Hall
Key Concepts: Racialization, Double consciousness, Colorism, Cultural appropriation
Cinema constructs:
1. Voyeuristic (woman as image)
2. Fetishistic (woman as spectacle)
Key Concepts: Scopophilia, Interpellation, Media ecology, Viral culture
"All museums are theaters of memory." - Tony Bennett
Key Concepts: Cultural citizenship, Public sphere, Creative industries, Cultural governance
"The global is in the local." - Arjun Appadurai
Key Concepts: Cultural hybridity, Scapes (ethno-, media-, techno-, etc.), McDonalization, Cosmopolitanism
1. Dominant-hegemonic reading
2. Negotiated reading
3. Oppositional reading
Key Methods: Semiotics, Content analysis, Visual analysis, Participatory action research
