Theories Pt. 1
This concept can be referred to as "being the one who does not belong to us".
What is the "Other"?
This metaphor suggests that oppression is not a singular process or binary political relation, but is better understood as constituted by multiple, converging, or interwoven systems.
What is intersectionality?
This research method enables the systematic generation of new theory from data acquired by a rigorous research method.
What is grounded theory?
This school of thought asserted that the news is not a neutral product.
What is the Glasgow Media Group?
This school insists that the technologies of the media of communication are far more influential than their context.
What is the Toronto School?
This movement includes a collection of activists and scholars interested in studying and transforming the relationship between race, racism, and power.
What is the critical race theory movement?
In othering, these two groups are identified based on their characteristics relative to the self.
What are in-groups and out-groups?
The process of building the existence of the "self" as higher than the "other".
What is the act of othering?
Max Horkheimer, T.W. Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Leo Lowenthal, and Erich Fromm are associated with this school of thought.
What is the Frankfurt School?
The Glasgow Media Group primarily used this research method.
What is content analysis?
The metaphor of intersectionality was introduced and elaborated on by this scholar.
Who is Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw?
Grounded theory aims to conceptualize what is going on by using empirical data. It does not aim for this.
What is truth?
Intersectionality emerged from within this field of study.
What is women's studies?
This thesis describes the production of massified cultural products and homogenized subjectivities.
What is the culture industry thesis?
The Frankfurt School believed that American media culture worked to promote this entity's interests.
What is U.S. capitalism?
Because grounded theory captures social process in social context, it is most useful when the goal of research is to do this.
What is to explain human behaviour in context?
Derrick Bell, Alan Freeman, and Richard Delgado were early writers on this theory.
What is critical race theory?
The creation of stereotypical dichotomic attributions such as own/alien, good/bad, or morally superior/inferior create this type of logic.
What is us vs. them logic?
Dorothy Hobson, David Morley, Charlotte Brunsdon, Janice Winship, and Paul Willis are associated with which school?
What is the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies?
This model posits that viewers take up one of three positions -- the dominant position, a negotiated view, or an oppositional view.
What is the encoding/decoding model?
This thesis suggests that race and races are products of social thought and relations.
What is the "Social Construction" thesis?
The process of collecting data to develop the hypotheses and further identify properties and relationships among concepts.
What is theoretical sampling?
The name for the fact that because racism advances the interests of white elites (materially) large segments of society have little incentive to eradicate it.
What is Interest Convergence or MAterial Determinism?
This encoded meaning constrains possible readings but never totally controls them.
Was is the "preferred meaning"?
This theory states that any advanced modern society is shaped by the various media technologies that are available to it.
What is Medium Theory?